[aianus]

It's "standardized" as in everyone gets the same test in a given year. Absolute results on something like a college admissions exam are pretty meaningless since getting into college is a zero-sum game for all but the worst schools. All that matters is doing better than X% of the population.

Seems to me like incentivizing deep learning over memorization outweighs losing the ability to compare absolute results from one year to the next.