New DSST scoring?

[knucyt]

So if the scoring sheet you received said that it now requires a 400 out of a total possible 500, that's a score of 80% as the minimum passing score.
To go from the prior scaled score of 50 (or less) out of 80 possible makes no sense to me. That's like saying you could pass before with a 63%, now it takes 80%??

I know math is not my strongest suit...but why are they making it harder to pass?? Does anyone understand/have anymore info on this?? If you look at the military pass rates for these exams in 2007 it's not like they had overly high pass rates and needed to readjust the baseline pass rate. Strange.