SAT - History

History

Mean SAT Scores by year
Year of exam	Reading /Verbal Score	Math Score
1972	530	509
1973	523	506
1974	521	505
1975	512	498
1976	509	497
1977	507	496
1978	507	494
1979	505	493
1980	502	492
1981	502	492
1982	504	493
1983	503	494
1984	504	497
1985	509	500
1986	509	500
1987	507	501
1988	505	501
1989	504	502
1990	500	501
1991	499	500
1992	500	501
1993	500	503
1994	499	504
1995	504	506
1996	505	508
1997	505	511
1998	505	512
1999	505	511
2000	505	514
2001	506	514
2002	504	516
2003	507	519
2004	508	518
2005	508	520
2006	503	518
2007	502	515
2008	502	515
2009	501	515
2010	501	516
2011	497	514

Originally used mainly by colleges and universities in the northeastern United States, and developed by Carl Brigham, one of the psychologists who worked on the Army Alpha and Beta tests, the SAT was originally developed as a way to eliminate test bias between people from different socio-economic backgrounds.

Famous quotes containing the word history:

“Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won’t do. It’s an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth-century thought.”
—Peter B. Medawar (1915–1987)

“Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action—that the end will sanction any means.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

“The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)