Difficulty of March SAT & Predicted Curves

<p>What did you guys think of each individual section?</p>

<p>I thought the math in general was easy but they randomly put in some really hard problems.
Writing was ehh, I got an experimental section and I remember one being weirdly much harder than the other, anyone remember any from the experimental if you got it?
CR I thought was easier than January's but the classical music passage was really hard, so I'd save overall about normal.</p>

<p>Anyone know what the CR experimental was?</p>

<p>Question: are the curves determined beforehand or are they curved based on average raw scores?</p>

<p>I thought math was doable but somewhat challenging (I had experimental), writing was pretty easy as always (even though I thought seldomly was a word and messed up a MC), and critical reading, the bane of my existence, was as hard as ever. So far, I know I missed:
2 math
3 critical reading
1 writing (STUPID!!!)
Assuming I make another stupid mistake on each section, I <em>hope</em> I get around a 2270. That would make me extremely happy.</p>

<p>@kitts95: XD I originally had errored “seldom” because I thought that “seldomly” was its adverb form. I then mistakenly concluded that adjectives modify adverbs (the second “ly” in the sentence…) and so it must be “seldom”. I got lucky.</p>

<p>I know I got at least 1 wrong in CR. I sure as hell hope you guys are wrong about “categorical” and “undermine” in the classical music section.</p>

<p>@RMIB this is so frustrating! I had it as “no error” at first too… then when I went over my answers I got worried that I had too many "no error"s and that one of them was wrong. I should have just stuck with my gut feeling and kept it :l</p>

<p>Also, does anybody want to guess as to my individual scores, based on what I have above? I also omitted one critical reading question, just so people know when estimating. Thanks!</p>

<p>Good luck to all those still clinging to hope of an 2400!</p>

<p>IIRC if you get a double digit essay score, you could still get an 800.</p>

<p>I hope the CR reading curve is one of those generous “get 2 wrong = 800” tests.</p>

<p>@kitts</p>

<p>You didn’t indicate if you got any math wrong so I’m assuming you think you didn’t, so that’s an 800.</p>

<p>Missing one CR would also, most likely still be an 800 (depending on the curve, no less than a 790 though)</p>

<p>Assuming that you get a high essay score (10,11,12) you can still get an 800 in the Writing as well.</p>

<p>Really? I missed one MC (which gave me a 75 subscore) and an 11 essay in January and got a 790. I’m definitely not complaining, but I would love to get that 800!</p>

<p>I’m basing it off of charts in the Blue Book, we can’t be sure of the curve this time.</p>

<p>@james I wrote how many I missed in each section towards the top of the page (post #3). Can you base your predictions off of that? Assume an 11 essay.</p>

<p>Using the blue book (practice test 1) </p>

<p>Math- with 2 wrong would be a 52 raw, 770 scaled.
CR- with 3 wrong would be a 63 raw, 780 scaled.
W- with 1 wrong and an 11 essay would be 48 raw , 79 scaled for MC and combined with essay 800 </p>

<p>Again- we can’t predict the curve for this SAT.
Total would be 2350, and that’s amazing no college is going to say “where are the 50 points!!!”</p>

<p>If I get that high of a score, I will literally scream. How many days before scores are released?</p>

<p>We get our scores March 29! Gosh, feels pretty close.</p>

<p>I hope you didn’t miss anything else and March 28th the scores are released.</p>

<p>Thanks! I can’t help but feel as if that 2350 is unattainable though… oh well. I guess we’ll find out in 19 days!</p>

<p>Can you get a single digit essay score and still score an 800?</p>

<p>If I bomb and score a 6 on the essay and get all the MC right, what would my range be?</p>

<p>What do you guys think a -1 math will be? Of the answers compiled here, I don’t see anything else I’ve missed. It sucks that the one I did miss was in the section that a -1 is never an 800, though. :/</p>

<p>-1 math is probably a 790. 760 pessimistically, maybe even an 800 though optimistically (I’ve seen it before…but it’s very rare).</p>

<p>I may be wrong, of course.</p>

<p>guys what do you think 3 wrong on the math would get me…i think the curve would be easy since the math was relatively difficult… what do you guys think</p>

<p>^3 wrong would probably get you low 700s.</p>