On the SATs, students can be compared to a recent norm group by examining their percentile score, or an earlier norm group by examining their standard score. The earlier standard score used a mean of 500 and a standard deviation of 100.

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This statement is true. Up until March 2016, the SAT used a scoring system with a mean of 500 and a standard deviation of 100. This means that a standard score of 500 was considered average, and scores above or below 500 deviated from the average by a certain number of standard deviations. However, the SAT's scoring system changed in 2016, and now uses a different range of scores and a different scoring system.

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