<p>With only 4 wrong!!! is the writing curve that harsh???</p>
<p>A 69 MC (with 4 mistakes) and a 12 Essay for only a 740.
Previously I have got a 78 MC (2 wrong) and a 9 essay for a 760. </p>
<p>I am suspecting a collegeboard miscalculation. A drop from 78 to 69 with just a decrease of 3 points in raw score. What do you guys think?</p>
<p>Will schools consider the 2 sections of writing test separately , (e.g. 78 MC and 12 Essay), or do they take only my highest combined score, i.e. 760?</p>
<p>No, you cannot mix and match essay and MC. They will however, take your best overall score, the 760.</p>
<p>SO is the essay section not that important?</p>
<p>Curves vary for different tests, so it might not necessarily been an error. The test with a generous curve probably had a much harder writing section (or dumber kids), while the test with the harsher curve had the opposite.</p>
<p>FYI, i got the same score.</p>
<p>The curve was probably:
49 - 80
48 - 77
47 - 75
46 - 73
45 - 71
44 - 69.
(Remember that 4 wrong has a penalty of 1 pt, so your raw score would be 44.)</p>
<p>I thought about complaining about this, but I don't think its that harsh. A 44/49 is 5 (raw) pts below perfect, so it should probably be around 50 (scale) pts below perfect. 60 isn't that much harsher than 50.</p>
<p>So colleges only see your overall writing score, not the MC and essay scores?</p>
<p>They look at the Essay score, sometimes (rarely though), read over ur SAT Essay</p>