<p>Does anyone else find it painfully frustrating that the score conversions in the blue CB book have like a range of sometimes 60 points?? Does anyone happen to know if a real curve would be on the higher or lower side?</p>
<p>Yeah, it's kind of annoying, especially because the range will sometimes be 100 points. I'd say on average it will be somewhere in the middle. If it's a particularly hard test, maybe a little on the higher end; if it's a particularly easy test, maybe a little on the lower end -- that's pretty hard to decide yourself, though.</p>
<p>It is frustrating, but remember, they haven't actually evaluated the tests in the CB book with a large pool of students, so there's no way for them to be as statistically accurate as you'd like them to be.</p>
<p>I actually think the tests in the CB book are a little inconsistent. The book as a whole is a better representation of the actual test than any individual test in the book is. If this is correct, +- a few points doesn't really matter anyway.</p>
<p>Does anyone know how CB practice tests compare against PR ones? I've only taken the PR ones so I hope I'm not at a disadvantage. Which gives you a better prediction of your SAT scores?</p>
<p>I posted a curve for the exams in the book a short while ago that's proven to be pretty accurate in predicting actual scores. If anyone wants a copy of the curve, just e-mail me.</p>