Being Canadian, I am not familiar with SAT.
Does age, even a year or two, make a difference on scoring? I you are 16 or 19, will it be affected by the curve?
Ren
The SAT is not normed for age.
Generally, the older you are, the better you do.
SAT scores from 1999-2001 for 7th and 8th graders, and scores from 1997-1998 for older students, are at
http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/highered/ra/sat/SATScoresNontradTestTakers.pdf .
Here are the means, verbal followed math.
7th grade: 426, 447
8th grade: 493, 518
by age:
<20 477, 491
20 473, 477
21-24 486, 476
25-29 516, 474
30-39 525, 461
>=40 508, 437
all 483, 483
Verbal scores increase up to the age range 30-39 and then decrease. Math scores decline, especially after the 20-29 age range. People taking the SAT at age 30 differ from those taking at age 17 in more than age, so these numbers should be interpreted with caution.
For the Duke TIP 7th grade talent search of 2010-2011
http://www.tip.duke.edu/talent_searches/grade_7/7GTSResultsSummary.pdf , the average SAT scores were 430, 450, and 410 for Critical Reading, Math, and Writing. I have not been able to find comparable results for the Johns Hopkins talent search
The existence of math academies such as Russian School of Math
http://www.russianschool.com/results.html boosts the number of 7th and 8th graders with high SAT math scores -- their page boasts of many with 700+ scores.
