Advice needed on SAT re-scoring

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<p>Hi I am an 8th grader who just took the Dec SAT test for the first time since it is required by a boardiing school that I am applying to. Got my scores today with much surprise, I scored 780 on CR, 740 on writing, but only 690 on Math. Math is my strongest subject as I achieved a perfect score on AMC8 competition, placed within the top 10 in state mathcounts competition, and scored 800 on the only 2 SAT practice tests I took (one is the college board practice test and the other is a real SAT test that I obtained from a friend of mine). I am currently taking Honors Pre-cal at high school. I felt really good on the test date (no omissions, double checked my answers) and can't recall any mishaps such as misbubbling etc. Therefore I am really disappointed with my math score. Since I don't know enough about SAT scoring system, I am hoping to get some advice from veterans like you guys on what I should do next.</p>

<p>I am hoping to get a detailed score report that includes number of corrects, incorrects, omissions. Would this be available online after Dec 30th or do I need to order it from the board using their SAS service with a fee? If I do see major discrepancies, for example, the report shows many number of omissions in the math section while I know for a fact that I didn't omit any (by searching relevant posts I saw some examples like this, unfortunately, there was no follow up posts), then should I proceed with hand score verification? I haven't seen any report back on positive experience with hand score yet on this forum, is it really worth it?</p>

<p>Really appreciate your help on this.</p>

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<p>The number correct, incorrect, and omitted will be available online. There’s no QAS for the December test. If you see discrepancies you can try to proceed with hand scoring, but I’ve never seen that pan out for any student. You probably just missed a few (doesn’t take many to drop to 690 in Math, after all).</p>

<p>(I’d also note that AMC8 is really irrelevant–SAT 1 math bears no real resemblance to the kind of problem-solving the AMC requires.)</p>

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<p>Thank you very much for your comments. I figured that the chance of having a hand scoring change my math score is probably slim to none. You are absolutely right that it doesn’t take many misses to drop the math score to 690. This is definitely going to serve as a wake up call for me when I take SAT officially in a few years. I do make careless mistakes but missing 5 or 6 (my guess based on my score) still surprises me. I have seen other posts mentioning that they have more omissions reported than they actually remember which in my case I clearly omitted none of the math questions. wonder what’s that about? unfortunately I couldn’t find any follow up posts.</p>