<p>If you took the test in 2008 but did not graduate in 2008, I'm assuming the result isn't counted on here?</p>
<p>The count and analysis they do is for the senior class that graduates 2008 and they use tests that those students took from their sophomore to senior years.</p>
<p>1,130 got 1600 and a whopping 508 got 400.
Same sample set..</p>
<p>Here are the links to the other score reports for class of 2008. Yes, these links are for the highest (single-sitting) score of each individual in class of 2008 who took the SAT at all, whether in grade 9, grade 10, grade 11, or grade 12, and whether the test-taker took the test just once or more than once. See table 3 of the overall national report for class of 2008 </p>
<p>for a little more detail on that. </p>
<p>See also </p>
<p>which may be updated in a few days.</p>
<p>lol more people got 2400 than 600.... hummm</p>
<p>Thank god for superscoring! (at least till next year)</p>
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<p>It's very VERY hard to get a 600 unless you're mentally handicapped (no offense to anyone). Doesn't that basically mean you got EVERY question wrong? You would have to have to try to do that.</p>
<p>yeah, actually getting 600 would really require you to *be able to score a 2400*or .... luckier than someone who won the lottery. Two times in a row.</p>
<p>If you don't answer any questions, you would still get more than 600, because of the curve thing. You'll have to be sure to answer the questions wrong, which means you need to know the answer and NOT pick it, otherwise there's a good chance you'll accidentially hit it.</p>
<p>and @#14, okay so people who score high on writing might not be good at CR. But that means you learned some grammar rules, not your good at english. If your good at CR though, chances are, your writing score won't be that bad either. But if your good at math, it doesn't affect writing score at all. </p>
<p>Why did they add the writing section in anyway... they should've just made the math section about AMC12 level.</p>
<p>The writing section is faring very well in validation studies so far. Harvard, I'm pretty sure, used to require the old SAT II test in writing, which is the model for the current SAT I writing section.</p>
<p>When S1 took the SAT (March 2007), two wrong on CR was still an 800. Two wrong and an omit was a 780. </p>
<p>If one gets an 80 on the MC part of Writing, one can get as low as a 9 on the essay and still get an 800.</p>
<p>And to remind everyone of the obvious...2380s, 2390s and 2400s do not assure entrance into top schools. Gotta take care of the rest of your business, too!</p>
<p>all the schools i have visited said they dnt consider the writting. its annoying as heck cause my CR+M score is the 95th percentile whereas it is 97th with writting. why did i do best in the least important one!
soo annoying</p>
<p>"If one gets an 80 on the MC part of Writing, one can get as low as a 9 on the essay and still get an 800."</p>
<p>Depends on the test - I had an 80 and 9 and got a 780. That still seems pretty generous though.</p>
<p>As was mentioned, the writing test is pretty much the old SAT II writing, with a bit from the former SAT I reading section. The schools that previously required the SAT II writing are, for the most part, the only ones using that test. Many competitive schools have said they are "collecting" the scores to "review their data" - although what that will tell them remains to be seen.</p>
<p>By far the majority are not using the writing test. There is some indication that it adds to some predictive models, but it appears to be the most coachable section of the test. At schools with strong writing programs, the kind of writing needed for the test (fast is better, accuracy of content is irrelevant) is the opposite of what's being taught (writing within the curriculum, using reflection and editing to produce outcomes comparable to what's required in graduate school and the workforce). As a result, there a vast number of institutions still using the 1600 point scale.</p>
<p>This was reinforced looking at comparing ACT/SAT scores. Each year the ACT/Collegeboard teams collaborate and release a table for admissions officers to use in comparing the scores. SAT didn't want to release anything other than a comparison on the 2400 scale. The colleges complained bitterly, especially since the ACT writing test is optional. We know have tables comparing both with and without the writing test - which continues to raise the question of why SAT won't follow ACT's sensible lead in making the writing test optional!</p>
<p>Dr. Andrew Flagel
Dean of Admissions
George Mason University
Not</a> Your Average Admissions Blog A Beneath the Surface Look At Everything College Admissions (with a few shameless plugs)</p>
<p>Dear Dr. Glagel,</p>
<p>Allow me to respectfully disagree with your post. The ACT has an optional essay but it has a compulsory English section which is very similar to the SAT Writing section. The only real difference is that the SAT essay is included in the SAT writing section while the essay is optional in the ACT English section. Both the SAT Writing and ACT English sections are comprised of mostly grammar questions.</p>
<p>The essay in the SAT writing section is enormously valuable in that it is the only opportunity for college admissions officers to glimpse uncouched writing by the student. Buried in much of the discussion of the writing section is the fact that it is, in fact, proving the most predictive of college success of the three sections.</p>
<p>Many, many college courses entail exam essays written without benefit of writing tutors, revision, thesaurus and emails to mom and dad. To argue that the essay on the SAT is meaningless is just silly.</p>
<p>As to 102 that scored 600 total, it is actually something difficult to do. It can possibly just happen but it is more likely that a lot of those are persons who took the test just to see if they could score 600 which actually requires getting all answers wrong (not just leaving them blank). A number of years back, a college professor set out to see if he could score 400 on the SAT (old test lowest possible, 200 per section). It took him four tries to do it. He published his story and since then there have been many who have attempted to repeat the feat.</p>
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<p>That's an important factual correction to another post in this thread.</p>
<p>Yeah, scoring a 600 is actually pretty impressive...I'd be curious to see if I could to it someday.:p</p>
<p>wow. congrats to the 600s. very rare score</p>
<p>^^Not as impressive as 0 on the AMC.</p>
<p>scoring a 2400 requires you get all questions right (or close). Guessing all questions right has a probability of (1/5)^ 177, whereas guessing all wrong has a probability of (4/5)^177. </p>
<p>2400 is more impressive :)</p>