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===Percentiles for verbal and math scores (1969–70)===
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|+<!--Percentiles for total scores (1969–70)--><ref name="your-atp">{{cite book | title=Your College Board ATP Report | publisher=College Entrance Examination Board | location= | year=1971 | pages=7, 9–10}}</ref>
 ! Score, <br /> 200–800 scale !! Verbal SAT User !! Verbal, nationally <br /> representative sample !!  Math SAT User, <br /> Boys !! Math SAT User, <br /> Girls
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 | 800 || 99+|| 99+ || 99+ || 99+
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 | 750 || 99+|| 99+ || 99 || 99+
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 | 700 || 98 || 99+ || 95 || 99
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 | 650 || 95 || 98 || 89 || 96
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 | 600 || 89 || 95 || 78 || 89
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 | 550 || 79 || 90 || 65 || 79
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 | 500 || 66 || 82 || 48 || 63
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 | 450 || 50 || 72 || 33 || 46
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 | 400 || 33 || 58 || 20 || 29
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 | 350 || 18 || 44 || 11 || 16
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 | 300 ||  7 || 28 || 4 || 6
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 | 250 ||  2 || 14 || 1 || 1
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 | 200 ||  1− || 4 || 1− || 1−
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 |}

The mean verbal score was 461 for students taking the SAT, 383 for the sample of all students.<ref name="your-atp"/>

The mathematical scores for 1969–70 were broken out by gender rather than reported as a whole; the mean math score for boys was 415, for girls 378.  The differences for the nationally sampled population for math (not shown in table) were similar to those for the verbal section.<ref name="your-atp"/>