To put Lydia's mark in perspective, the top adult score in the Cattell III B test, which primarily tests verbal reasoning, is 161.

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According to a popular summary of the research that has greatly informed this very post, in 1966-67, of the approximately 1.4 million students who took the verbal portion of the S.A.T, 33, 000 achieved a score of 700 or more.

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