<p>The College Board has just released some new concordance tables, which admissions officials use in comparing SAT and ACT scores (and which students obviously can use in deciding which scores to submit). Students often post links to outdated conversion tables on CC.</p>
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In 2005, the College Board added a required Writing test to the SAT and ACT added an optional Writing test to the ACT. Before 2005, the ACT and the College Board had periodically produced concordance tables to assist admissions officers who wanted to understand how students of comparable ability would score on the two college entrance examinations. Given the changes to both respective tests, the College Board and ACT are now providing updated concordance tables that are appropriate to the current versions of the two tests.
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<p>SAT-ACT</a> Concordance Tables</p>
<p>It's funny how my 36 ACT now correlates to a 2320 because of my lousy E/W score of 32......</p>
<p>Thanks for the link.</p>
<p>is there a link for this in html? .. pdf messes up my comp. because it's not downloaded properly</p>
<p>Here you go:</p>
<p>ACT-SAT</a> Concordance</p>
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Because the ACT and SAT are not parallel in content, and different students have different strengths and weaknesses, there is really no such thing as an “equivalent” score on the two tests.
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<p>If only the College Board and the ACT would truly realize this and not publish concordance tables just for the sake of it. <em>sigh</em></p>
<p>I got a 28 on my ACT's which I thought was better than my SAT score, which was a 1310 on critical reading in math. According to the chart it says that a 28 corresponds to a 1260. I think this just confused me more haha</p>
<p>Colleges ask for concordance tables, and it's nice to know that there is a new official one, but the most competitive colleges are also not strictly "by the numbers" and already know what numbers on each kind of test are high enough for that college.</p>
<p>i don't know if i like this or not. </p>
<p>edit: now that i think of it.. comparing the english/writing subscore to the writing section is stupid. why does the science part count towards the M+CR conversion then? shouldn't it just be reading and Math if english and the essay correlates to the writing section? hell i have a 36 math and 34 reading, which would convert to a 1500+ SAT, but because of the science section, which has no correlation to the SAT IMO, i have a 1460 conversion. </p>
<p>i'm not complaining.. i still love my score.. but i think these conversions are a little baseless. ACT/SAT comes out with a concordance table for the least used section by colleges. why not spend a few years comparing the two tests as a whole in depth rather than coming out with a table for the writing section, of all sections?</p>
<p>It's the same exact thing as the old one... i.e BS. My 30 is far better than my 1330 at most schools.</p>