like one of these smarty-pants before me said, self selection bias
1350 on the old test, they made us take the new one but didnt count the writing, class of 06 was the first class to take the new ones but the writing section was too new to judge good scores on it.
its too bad cause I think I got almost perfect on the writing section. and it counted for nothing. but i still had to do it. I am so glad I never have to take those tests again, they are so tedious and early in the morning.
an interesting story...I took them twice. the first time I stayed up til 3 the night before smoking with some friends, woke up had a cup of coffee and raced off to take them. I fell asleep in the room before the test, and dozed after I finished every section. my primary motivation to finish a section was so I could nap.
the second time I took them, I went to bed by 10, woke up had a nice breakfast, coffee, and adderall. I got to the test with time to spare, and I thought I did fairly well.
I ended up doing about 10-20 points worse on every section. So apparently all the talk of how important breakfast and rest are is not really that significant