Breaking SAT records!

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<p>Everybody always says you get 200 pts for your name on the SATs. Since wrong answers mean negative points, is it <em>technically</em> possible to get less than a 200 on your SAT? Just curious.</p>

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<p>stupid /* ugh */</p>

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<p>no, 600 is the lowest possible score</p>

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<p>you can get lower than 600 if you have all wrong answers.</p>

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<p>^ no you cannot get lower than 600. each section is between 200-800. i believe that if you leave all of them blank you would end up with a score around 320.</p>

<p>i might be wrong though so w/e</p>

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<p>some guy tried doing this i believe. taking the SAT and filling in all the answers to get the lowest possible score</p>

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<p>200 is the lowest possible score (per section) like 1MX and PK already said.</p>

<p>If you get every answer wrong, you will get a 200 on the section.</p>

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<p>What a waste of money...</p>

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<p>you get 200 per section if you leave all blank. you can get lower if you have all of them wrong.</p>

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<p>Ah... technically that's true, but 200 is the lowest score that CB reports.</p>

<p><a href="http://collegeboard.com/student/testing/sat/about/sat/FAQ.html#quest16%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://collegeboard.com/student/testing/sat/about/sat/FAQ.html#quest16&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Actually, I think CB assumes that you are canceling your score if you have nothing filled in. I read that somewhere, can't remember where.</p>

<p>Edit: I found it! I read it on the CB website at the link GoldShadow provided.</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.colinfahey.com/oldpages/2003apr5_sat/original_2003apr5_sat.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.colinfahey.com/oldpages/2003apr5_sat/original_2003apr5_sat.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>This person tried to answer all the questions incorrently. That results might surprise you.</p>

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Several months after getting almost the worst possible raw score on the SAT, I was invited to pursue a Ph.D. in Computer Science at UCI.

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<p>uh. .</p>

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<p>Haha, that's whacked</p>

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<p>The 200-800 thing is a scaled score. The raw score can be negative. However, a 200 scaled score corresponds to a range of raw scores, and this range includes all negative scores. So while it's certainly possible to get a negative raw score, you can never get below 200 scaled.</p>

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<p>My friend got a 1250 on the new SAT, and she was actually trying.</p>

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<p>i tried not to laugh</p>