The SHSAT is not a pass/fail dealio

[conuly]

It is, rather, a zero sum game where by definition not everybody is going to pass the magical, ever-changing threshold score for any of the schools they'd like to attend. Because they're not simply competing against themselves, they're competing against everybody else for a very limited number of spots.

Whether this is good or bad is up for (endless) debate, apparently, but it is never going to be possible for "anybody" to get in so long as everybody believes that. No matter how "easy" you think the test turned out to be for you.

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[nodrog]

Y’ know, that applies to IQ as well.  It’s not fixed; 100 is “Whatever you should normally have,” and that’s obviously going to be relative to the baseline population.  When late Imperial Rome was drinking leaded wine and water from lead pipes, a 100 IQ would have been…  disappointing to modern sensibilities.

[conuly]

No arguments here.