<p>Hey I took the December SAT and just wanted to say that the BB scoring charts were pretty accurate. CR I got 6 wrong and 2 omit for a score of 690. In the BB the range they give is 650-730, right in the middle. For math I got 5 wrong and 2 omit for a 670, in BB range is 640-700, again right in the middle. Finally for writing, I got 5 MC wrong and 11 essay for a 730, and the range is about 680-800, almost in the middle.
Bottom line is our trust the score ranges provided in the BB</p>
<p>Wow I never knew that the BB could predict the score ranges within reason. I always thought that since CB was the publisher of the BB and since they love screwing us over, that they would post purely BS ranges in their books. Having your scores fall within that range... Simply amazing.</p>
<p>/sarcasm</p>
<p>The score ranges are actually not all that accurate. I created my own conversion tables for the Study Guide (Tests 4-8) which I estimate to yield scores that are accurate within 10 points for each section. Please contact me (e-mail) if you are interested in the tables.</p>
<p>You could take an actual test (e.g., the practice test on CB for this year) and I would still estimate your "true" range as significantly wider than 10 points.</p>
<p>The only way to know the mapping from BB scores to real SAT scores would be to give, say, 1000 people a BB test, and then compare their scores on their actual test. I'm sure the correlation would be high, but with a significant uncertainty in the fit.</p>