Can you get some wrong and get an 800?

Test Preparation
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<p>Someone told me that you can get some wrong on the MATH II SAT test and still get an 800. Does anyone know if this is in fact true?</p>

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<p>It’s true.</p>

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<p>What other SAT Subject Tests have a very liberal curve?</p>

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<p>It’s around 5 for Math and like 10-11 for Physics. Chemistry is like 6? Not sure about Chem.</p>

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<p>A lot of the SAT II tests have a generous curve. I know the history ones have them too along with some of the sciences and math.</p>

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<p>“Can you get some wrong and get an 800?”</p>

<p>Absolutely! That’s one of the best things about some of these subject tests. I think for U.S. History I got about ten wrong and still had a 750;) You should check out the official subject test practice book from collegeboard to get a general idea of how generous the curve is for each test.</p>

<p>Here’s a thread from another year:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-subject-tests-preparation/528166-sat-subject-test-scaled-raw-score-compilation.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-subject-tests-preparation/528166-sat-subject-test-scaled-raw-score-compilation.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Definitely. On the Math II last year, I did not know how to answer two questions and just left them blank. I still got an 800. Ten percent of all students that take the Math II get perfect scores because the curve is so generous.</p>

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<p>i got 2 wrong on the math ii definitely and may have gotten more wrong w/o knowing it</p>

<p>still got a 780 (which is really bad)</p>

<p>if u wanna talk about really bad, I got a 760 on the chem test
granted, the chem test is like 90 questions long but i think i got at least 20 questions wrong lol</p>

<p>ive heard that you can get 10 wrong on the US History and still get a 800 but thats kinda ridiculous</p>

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<p>I don’t really agree with antonioray. I was strapped for time on the math II and I didn’t answer like the last three and I got an 800. Basically, for any SAT test, if you don’t know or don’t have enough time, leave some blank. It took me a while to grasp that, but once I did a lot of my scores went up 50 points or more.</p>

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<p>it isn’t really fair, but yes, you can get a 800 while missing some questions. College Board wants the average to be 500 all the time (or somewhere close to it.)</p>

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<p>^The average score on the Math Level 2 is actually around 650, not 500. The College Board does not adjust scores to ensure that 500 is the average (true on the regular SAT as well).</p>

<p>Typical for math 2 is fewer than 5-6 wrong to get the 800.</p>

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<p>yep even after getting a few questions wrong it is possible to score 800.to know how many wrong question are allowed check some good book like barron sat as refrence</p>