Very true. Especially when you take into consideration the fact that SAT was "recentered" in the 1990's. I scored 1320 in 1962 which surprised even me and was high enough to get me into every University to which I applied.
`Recentered' Scores Just Another Step Toward Mediocrity
June 17, 1994|By Charles Krauthammer, (copyright) 1994, Washington Post Writers Group.
WASHINGTON — The nation's SAT scores are going to be "recentered." Lovely word. It means that every child in America will get something like 100 free points added to his score. There hasn't been a promised giveaway like it since the famed chicken-in-every-pot and George McGovern's $1,000 government handout to every living American. Except that, mere numbers being easier to manufacture than real chickens and real money, this promise will be kept. By next April, every high schooler in America will look a hundred points smarter.
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`Recentered' Scores Just Another Step Toward Mediocrity