I personally found the math section incredibly easy but was really caught off guard on some of the reading section questions. Please share your views.
Last Reading questions were tricky. Non calc paper was a bit iffy but calculator paper was okay.
Same. Math was easy but I needed more time for the reading.
yeah reading was tougher than Math section specially that econ passage. Phew it was hard.
International test was recycled–March 21 school day US exam.
@Marvin100 are you saying they recycled the test * again! * and that the international October test was the same as the US March test?
Yes, well, the March 21 school day test. I have it on good authority that it was widely available in China and it’s likely some people had it elsewhere as well.
Oh good grief, so should my kiddo be surfing Chinese web sites and planning to go over seas to take the SAT to get on a level playing field??? Seriously, someone needs to sue the College Board over this, there is no reason to recycle tests for what we pay to take them and to send scores, not to mention the $$$ CB makes from selling off kids information.
Kiddo will be on a class trip to China/Taiwan June 2019 maybe he can retake the SAT there and if that doesn’t work out maybe we can plan a 'testing taking trip" to Singapore at a later date.
Someone is suing the College Board:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2018/09/06/college-board-sued-over-allegedly-recycled-sat-test-questions/
My D found reading section tough. She ran out of time and could not answer last 6 questions. She always scored 780 in her practice tests. Some passages were very hard to understand… lets see now.
I have no love for the CB and hope they get their pants sued off! What they are doing is wrong on so many levels!
Back to the topic of this thread. DS20 thought the reading section was easy and had lots of extra time but knows he missed one math and might have missed another because he had to guess. That said he always over estimates how well he does on these sort of tests. This is his second time taking the SAT, the first was March of 10th grade, he scored 1430 Total Score, 750 Evidence-Based Reading and Writing, 680 Math.
He hopes for a 1520/1540, if he ends up with under 1500 we may consider international testing options. I’ve never been to Singapore before;-)
@3scoutsmom - I would urge you to think of the SAT as two separate tests, EBRW and M (both out of 800), rather than as a single test with a combined score out of 1600. Your son’s EBRW is already top tier, and if he can get his M up to or close to 750, he’ll have done a tremendous job, whether or not that quite equals 1500.
@marvin100 he’s already an auto admit to his first choice school (top 5% in his class in Texas) - his test scores are just needed for scholarships and thankful the school super scores so I know he’s good with EBRW. Math is the kicker but increasing his EBRW can help too. Ideally he’ll make National Merit (feel free to send good thoughts or prayers on Wednesday!) as that would give him a full ride plus perks and we won’t need to worry about SAT scores. His plan “B” requires high SAT scores. I think 1500-1520 would get him full tuition plus $1K a semester and 1540+ would get him full tuition plus $3K a semester. So over four years that would be a $16K difference - might be worth a vacation to Singapore to retake a test;-)
Nice, congrats on the auto-admit, best of luck for NMS, and that makes sense!
What time will the scores be released tomorrow?
@3scoutsmom Could you share what that plan “B” school is? That scholarship sounds very generous. Thank u.
@griffin1031 plan A and B are the same school just different scholarships:-) DS20 plans to attend UT Dallas his brother, DS18, is currently enrolled there on a full ride (tuition, and stipend to fully cover R&B) National Merit Scholarship. His plan “A” is to get National Merit too but that is far from a sure thing. Plan “B” would be to get their AES scholarship which is very generous.
@3scoutsmom thank you!