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Re: PSATs Back

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Originally Posted by monsieurcoffee
Percentile wise, the SAT IIs are steep because they are the most competitive tests since the more academically motivated people take them. The steepest tests within the SAT IIs are the language tests since the native speakers do really, really well... as in, nothing wrong :/
Actually, that's true mostly for Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. The score distribution for other languages such as French or German is less top-heavy. I'm guessing that's because Asian languages are so difficult to learn that nobody except natives take them.
However, the Math IIC and Physics tests have a lot of high scores, leading to even an 800 being only only around 91 or 93 percentile.
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