<p>hey everyone. one of my teachers told me that april sat curves are more generous since the test is much harder in april than on any other dates. this is because apparently a lot of kids take the sat in april so the cb wants a nice bell curve? </p>
<p>i dont know. does anyone know what the usual trend is with april SATs?</p>
<p>One more time...</p>
<p>The purpose of equating the exams (what folks here call a "curve" but isn't really a "curve") is so that a person taking an April exam will not have an advantage over a person taking a June exam, and vice-versa. An easy test will be equated to give the same score as a hard test.</p>
<p>With the high test volumes of the SAT on any test date, it would be harder NOT to get a bell curve that to have the raw scores fill in in a normal distribution (a bell curve) before equating and scaling is even done.</p>
<p>Take the exam when you are ready. Part of the money you pay is used to hire people to make sure that all the tests are equally fair -- or unfair :-)</p>
<p>It doesnt really matter what the curve is. What matters is what type of questions will come up and how well you will do on them. A harder test with a larger curve is meant to give similar scores as an easier test with a small curve. The only way i can see this helping me is if i get one wrong on the math and get a 790 instead of a 770 i would have gotten if i had gotten one wrong on an earlier test.</p>