Hey, I am having a major issue with my SAT Score. My score is much less than what I expected. It is a 100 points less. I checked my answers during the exam and was sure I will get at MOST one incorrect answer in each of the writing and math section. However, the CB gave me 4 incorrect answers on the writing section and 3 incorrect answers and 1 omitted answers ( I have shaded each and every question well and answered each question very carefully. ) I do remember leaving half of a passage in the reading section, but I am very sure of all of my answers and know that they are correct. Should order the score verification? The price is a bit too much though.
Order the verification. Just because you think that an answer is correct doesn’t mean that it is.
It is possible that you had some mistakes that slipped through the cracks- not may people finish sections with enough time to check each and every problem. If you’re really certain that something went wrong, I agree that score verification is the way to go.
I didn’t know people could predict their own scores with that kind of accuracy. My guess is you are finding out that you really can’t. 
A friend of my cousin somehow had 26 or something omitted answers (can’t remember), and he told me he was certain he shaded in all of the Scantron boxes correctly (with a #2 non-mechanical pencil).
Order the verification but I think you will find that your prediction wasn’t 100% accurate.
How much is verification? If it costs less to take the test again and order a review book from Ebay (even an old one) I think that’s a better use of your money, no?
Just curious…what do you THINK your scores should have been? What were they?
The curves can sometimes be draconian. DS got one question wrong on his Math section, back on the 2400 days, and was dinged 40 points. To add insult to injury, SAT said it was an “easy” question, and Math was his strong suit.
C’est la vie.
100 points less is not way off. That kind of estimate is usually based on things like needing a certain cutoff for a college.
Only two choices - you need to pay for verification of your test, or forget about it.
I recall when my son took the Sat 2 math. When I picked him up I asked him “How did you do?” “Oh I got 800,” he said. “How do you know that?” I asked. “Oh,” he said, “I answered all the questions and I had time to check my work.” Turned out he was right: 800 and no wrong answers. But most kids – including my son – don’t have that same confidence on all types of SAT exams.
Thank you @mackinaw for that excellent use of anecdote.
Can I take your kids confidence and put it in my kids lols.
I kid you not their motto is “I aim low that way I will never be disappointed!”.
How did you do? “Bombed it! I’ll be stoked if I got a C!” is a typical reply.
These are 3.8gpa kids, but that how they talk. Maybe in a speech class they were confidant, but that’s about it.
100 points off is not a “definitely incorrect” score. It’s quite likely the difference in 1 or 2 answers.
Sometimes in the test, we definitely think we’re right only to find out way later that we made a really dumb error that should’ve been obvious but wasn’t.
A verification is probably a waste of money IMO but it’s your money so shrug
Order verification as I guess it’ll ease your mind, but 100 points below expectations is very common.
You know, it is quite possible to disagree with the CB’s desired answers in the writing section.
I still remember a question on the US History SATII from 1970 for which, in my opinion then and now, none of the answers were correct.
Occasionally CB has admitted an error in a question–I know that this happened with a geometry-related question on the M portion of the exam.
You’ll never know for sure unless you pay for the verification but I’d definitely be willing to bet the score is correct and you misjudged how you did. Don’t know how you can check the veracity of all your answers and determine how many you got wrong without a copy of the test. Unless it’s changed since I took it, which it might have because they definitely didn’t tell us how many we got wrong. We just got a final score and that was it.
Sorry to harp but this is all news to me. When did they start telling you how many you got wrong? It was always so annoying to never know.
True, you can miss several on the Math Level II test and still get an 800 with no report of how many were wrong. But, my son took it 3 years ago, so things may have changed in the score reporting.