2250? Noooo!!!!!!!

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<p>I'm sorry if I sound like a ******, but I'm mightily disappointed by my 2250 score. I kept scoring 2330's from home-exams, and I was more focused on the day of the test than probably any other academic moment in my life. I swear.</p>

<p>730 CR
740 Math
780 Writing
8 essay (***?)</p>

<p>This is my first sitting, so I'll probably retake it - with superscoring, I can just focus on math and CR.</p>

<p>Yes, this thread has a purpose. Has anyone else scored lower on the actual SAT than they would score on practice tests? Has anyone scored higher, and which is more typical?</p>

<p>On another note, where can we actually see the exact SAT questions/answers we got wrong, and notes for our essay?</p>

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<p>I retook a 2250 as well and got 2340. Go for it. </p>

<p>You can’t see the exact SAT questions/answers unless you order a QAS ( Question and Answer Service). The catch is that QAS is only offer for October, January , and May tests. </p>

<p>You can order the SAS but that’s pretty much useless. You can read more about this:
[My</a> SAT: Help](<a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools)</p>

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<p>I scored better when I took the actually SAT and the PSAT than I did when I took any of the actual practice tests, I think because of all the distractions around when testing at home. I’m not sure which is more typical. </p>

<p>I think the essay is tricky because what you, your english teacher, and the rest of the world might call a good essay isn’t necessarily what collegeboard calls a good essay. They are looking for something specific, so you might want to look up some sample essays and guides. But 780 is pretty close to perfect already, so I wouldn’t worry too much about that. </p>

<p>If this is your first time taking the SAT, you have plenty of time to improve. That being said, a 2250 will get you in just about anywhere. :)</p>

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<p>What did u do to getc that score?</p>

<p>Sent from my SCH-I535 using CC</p>

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<p>A) Is this real life. Please calm down.</p>

<p>B) Order the SAS to receive the questions and list of questions you missed.</p>

<p>C) Please calm down.</p>

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<p>I scored ~2330s too on my practice tests and got 2200 on my first sitting so I’m in your boat. 700 in CR and 730 in math, huge disappointments cause I was breaking 740s for both when I was practicing them individually. </p>

<p>in the end though, 2200 is a great score, as is yours. don’t compare yourself with those crazies (the good crazy, i mean) here on CC who get 2400 the first time. you should be proud!</p>

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<p>I believe 2150 is start of the second standard deviation interval, so anything above it is statistically meaningless on the SAT. Good for bragging rights, but probably meaningless to an adcom. </p>

<p><a href=“http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/SAT-Percentile-Ranks-Composite-CR-M-W-2011.pdf[/url]”>http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/SAT-Percentile-Ranks-Composite-CR-M-W-2011.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I am not a statistician, so others might be more competent to judge.</p>

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<p>Perhaps. But I’m fairly certain that the statistics show a non-trivial difference in admission appeal between a 2300er and a 2100er.</p>

<p>Granted, a 2250 is a very good score…but I need to compensate heavily for a pitiful GPA.</p>

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<p>^From your username, it sounds like you’re taking IB (go IB! most effective school torture system xD), so I assume colleges would know about your course rigor.
In fact, most colleges say they weigh course rigor higher than GPA in admissions.</p>

<p>I advise looking around the Chance threads a little (a LITTLE, mind you, or otherwise you might get even more discouraged :confused: some people lol…) to see some of the cases with students with low GPAs who still made it into some of the highest-ranked colleges.</p>

<p>Hope that helps-good luck! :)</p>

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<p>I am like you, and I always scored higher in practice than in the real thing, probably because of nerves
But the more you take it, the less nerves you have
In practices i got like 2350s then on the real thing i got a 2210
I was really disappointed but I never studied again after taking the first one
But on the second try 2310
then on the third try 2380
Its just the nerves bro</p>

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<p>I can understand why you’re disappointed… the same thing happened to me on the ACT. But you have to remember, that most people consider anything 2250 or above to be considered, for all intents and purposes, to be a perfect score. Keeping that in mind… I don’t think it would hurt to take it a second time, because it likely was just a fluke since you were (I’m assuming) nervous about taking the test. But either way, that’s a mighty good score.</p>

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<p>lol, im kinda in between, it consistently scored like 2050’s on practice test, but on first sitting, I got mid 1900’s, and second sitting, 2100, going to retake again for at lesast 2150 - 2200</p>

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<p>XD - at the risk of sounding dismissive, the IB program’s junior year, which is supposed to be impossibllleeeee, has been much easier than I expected. My only difficult subjects are Spanish 6 (like, half the class is fluent/native…) and maybe Film Studies, the latter being more stressful and infuriating than academically difficult. Whenever I struggle in my other classes, it’s usually a result of my still imperfect time management skills (my presence here, for example).</p>

<p>Which makes it all the more annoying that, if it were not for middle school credits, freshman year, and still imperfect time management skills, I could have a 4.0 right now and be the precocious one inhabiting CC posting chance threads for Harvard and Yale - instead, I’m the worried little poster trying desperately to make myself feel better.</p>

<p>/incoherent ramble.</p>

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<p>It’s okay-Harvard turns down something like 7000 valedictorians every year. xD You are MUCH more than just a list of numbers, so keep that in mind too, especially with all the IB crap you must be going through. :P</p>

<p>Junior year 2nd semester is supposed to be the worst according to what DPers have told me…:confused: But I wouldn’t know, I’m supposed to be worrying about my Personal Project right now. xD</p>

<p>Whoa, that went off-topic. Sorry. :stuck_out_tongue: So, I used to have the same problem as you, not on the SATs themselves, but on other tests, especially in school.</p>

<p>What helped a lot, for me, was practice. Yep, plain, old, boring practice. xD Just doing so many tests, so many questions, that eventually I got used to more stress/pressure.</p>

<p>But what also helped was thinking positive thoughts instead of negative thoughts. See, I’ve been doing a TON better in school through 9th/10th grades (so far…:D) because now I’m self-confident that I can and WILL do my BEST, or very very close to that best. On outside exams, though, (like math competitions and stuff :/) I used to perform extremely badly. Way below my potential. And that was because I used to always think, ‘Well, here we go. Another failure. Yay.’</p>

<p>Maybe it was entering high school, maybe it was finally becoming more open and friendly to people, maybe a combo of both (most likely, an act of God :)), but one day, I was just so angry at myself for performing so badly when I knew I could do so much better. And that’s when the determination kicked in. And that’s when I was thinking, ‘Oh yeah I can do this. Heck, I WILL do this!’</p>

<p>So…after that long, unnecessarily long-winded story xD, I finally stepped up to the plate and began showing my true potential. :slight_smile: (Sorry about all the off-topicness, and the atrocious grammar…geez. xD)</p>

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<p>your application isn’t going to be scrapped for a freaking 2250 ! but yea if you wanna retake it do so a 2350 wont hurt</p>

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<p>please stop now and save yourself the stress. I took the ACT back in April last year and was in a similar situation to you (upset at getting a 34, and one of my subscores was low for me, 32 in Science), and I decided to listen to my guidance counselor and not take the test that one extra time. I was fine, I lived, and ended up getting accepted to a great school. You’re more than your numbers, and retaking it is not worth your time with a score like that. You’re above 1450 (which is a REALLY good spot to be for SATs), so stop now and save yourself unneccessary stress. It won’t hurt you. But if you prepare heavily, it’s not gonna do you much.</p>

<p>Also, 1st semester senior year is the worst. By far. Don’t get shocked like I did. when everybody tells you senior year is easy, they just say that because they got accepted into college and are on the tail end of senioritis. 2nd semester is easy, but know that 1st semester (especially 1st quarter) is awful.</p>

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<p>I scored higher on the actual thing probably because I always gave myself a low essay score. Also, I did better on the critical reading on the real thing. You can buy the whole score report to see how many you missed, but I don’t think you can get the questions or the essay notes.</p>