# SAT questions **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [July 2, 2002, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sat-questions/117076 "2002-07-02T18:30:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sat-questions/117076/1 "2002-07-02T18:30:15Z")
As you may know, the SAT’s will be changed, starting in 2005 AIR. I have 2 ?'s, one basic factual, one a controversial debate. Basic question: If you took the recentered exam, can you multiply your score by 1.5 to determine what your score on the new exam would’ve been? If so, I would’ve gotten a 1860 (I took them 5/97). My cotroversial question: They removed the analogies form the verbal section. So may we assume they bowed to pressure from minority leaders to do so? ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sat-questions/117076/2 "2002-07-02T19:18:04Z")
> [@](#): > > They removed the analogies form the verbal section. So may we assume they bowed to pressure from minority leaders to do so? Could you elaborate on this, please? I’ve heard a similar claim from one of my students (an intensely conservative young man), but nothing from the mainstream media. I believe the College Board’s official explanation is that students’ scores on the analogies section did not correlate particularly well with their performance in college, but I’d be interested in hearing more. ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sat-questions/117076/3 "2002-07-02T20:59:54Z")
The SAT without analogies? Why, that would be like…never mind. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sat-questions/117076/4 "2002-07-02T21:12:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by erictelevision \* > **As you may know, the SAT’s will be changed, starting in 2005 AIR. I have 2 ?'s, one basic factual, one a controversial debate. Basic question: If you took the recentered exam, can you multiply your score by 1.5 to determine what your score on the new exam would’ve been? If so, I would’ve gotten a 1860 (I took them 5/97).** No, because the max score is still 1600. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sat-questions/117076/5 "2002-07-03T17:21:31Z")
They added 400 points to each section, principally through a writing sample. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sat-questions/117076/6 "2002-07-03T17:26:14Z")
Nevermind, then. I don’t think that simple multiplication will give you an equivalent score on the new test, cause there’s nothing to account for the writing sample. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sat-questions/117076/7 "2002-07-04T00:00:57Z")
Yuck! I’m really bad in pop writing skills…I need _time_ to think and write a good essay, what I get in 20 minutes is a rough draft! That definitely did not helped in my SAT II English composition part. But analogies! Ohhh, I liked those! Those helped me a lot, I could figure them out sometimes without knowing what it meant, just eliminating. At least people won’t claim the new SAT’s are easier than the old ones…or so I hope.