<p>There is a different service called "Essay Score Verification" that only reevaluates the essay part.
<a href="http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/sat/scores/sending/handscore.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/sat/scores/sending/handscore.html</a></p>
<p>You can pay to have your essay score verified only if the two readers differed by more than a point. <a href="http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/sat/scores/sending/handscore.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/sat/scores/sending/handscore.html</a>
Bear in mind that most schools superscore so if you had a better writing score on another sitting this one probably won't sink you. Many schools don't even consider the writing portion yet (neither of my d's top 2 do and it's her best section.) You might want to check with admissions at your target schools to see how they view the writing score.</p>
<p>Paddy: The grammar and spelling you use in your posts here has many errors. Is it possible that the CollegeBoard is right and you are unaware of what is correct? For example, you wrote:</p>
<p>"No, thats one of my problem....
Maybe I scrue up on the bubbling....</p>
<p>Will the college board to help me if I ask them?"</p>
<p>Instead, it should be: </p>
<p>"No, that's one of my problems....
Maybe I screwed up on the bubbling....</p>
<p>Will the college board help me if I ask them?"</p>
<p>I'm not trying to be mean, but your grammar and syntax are not very good in your posts.</p>
<p>I know I don't have good grammar when it comes to writing,
But 480 is just insane.</p>
<p>I need to pay extra attention when I write because english is not my native language, and I wasn't paying much attention to my grammar the posts.</p>
<p>More the reason I believe I don't deserve a 480, because I practiced like hell.</p>
<p>Ha, I forgot a "on" between "grammar the posts", better point that out.</p>
<p>I put my hope on the november SAT</p>
<p>I went to the link and it seems that they will not reread the essay. I guess that they didn't like it. I am glad that many schools do not really consider the essay because the scoring is so subjective. I am just disappointed because I would hve gotten close to a perfect score. Don't get me wrong - I am thrilled with my CR and Math - and my earlier Writing was good - just not an 800 - after all this work - to come so close!</p>
<p>I got an unusually low math score... so I requested a hand score report
Hope my score improves..</p>
<p>Paddy, even with a lot of practice it is difficult for non-native English speakers to score well on the SATs. From your posts it still seems that you don't speak fluently, because almost every one of your sentences has one or multiple grammatical mistakes. If you aren't careful about these kinds of details when you speak casually, you will probably miss identifying them on the Writing section and overpredict your performance.</p>
<p>I was kinda hoping they screwed up too... My writing went down 70 and math down 90 :(</p>
<p>I'm wondering the same thing...I mean I don't want to waste $50 if it turns out that I was being to optimissic.</p>
<p>I went down 90 pts on math...Such a disappointment.</p>
<p>I am dissappointed to see all people here that doubt my ablility.</p>
<p>What to say about my essay score? Can one get a 8 with such a bad grammar?</p>
<p>I have been practicing the multiple choice questions for over three month, I know what score I am suppose to have and I believe even an idiot can score 480.</p>
<p>Just request the QAS. That's what I'm doing. That way, before you waste 50 bucks on rescoring, you can see if it was truly your stupid mistakes that earned you that score. By the way Paddy, I know how you feel. I think that seriously, if you have went to school in America, ( no offense to anyone btw), then atleast half of the writing errors will occur to your naturally. Maybe i'm wrong. Gl to everyone that was dissapointed as I was. As long as i score above 33 on the ACT, i will never ever take this stupid test again.</p>
<p>The pattern of errors makes Paddy look like a native speaker of Chinese (which four out of six members of my immediate family are), so the 480 on the writing multiple choice section doesn't surprise me at all. Then Paddy's problem becomes how to make a case that he has a stronger language background than it appears from English-language testing, perhaps by showing a strong performance by testing in his native language (whatever that is), through the SAT II or AP program.</p>
<p>to be honest, there isn't a big possibility that college board is wrong, but you should do the hand scoring if you really feel wronged. I got a 660 in writing this time and was rather shocked, since the first time i took the sat, i got a 730. But I've realized that writing scores really fluctuate from time to time.</p>
<p>Hmm? Is that really what taking the chinese SAT II or AP test would do for me? I might do that, even though i really show no weakness in English. Lol maybe they'll think i could have gotten in the 700s if i spoke english at home haha</p>
<p>perhaps the writing section was really hard. from what i've heard, many people's writing scores dropped significantly on the october sats</p>
<p>^I guess I could be true...My writing score stayed the same from last time, and I was expecting a major increase</p>
<p>yeahhh!
my writing section dropped 100 points from what i usually get.
that totally shattered my 2000 points dream</p>
<p>How do all of you do practice tests for the SAT? Are they genuine previous SAT tests, or are they from some other company? Practice tests from other companies usually have inaccurate scoring scales.</p>