<p>So recently i have been taking quite a few practice tests.. (out of the collegeboard blue book) and when i finish taking the test i go to the back to grade myself.
When i get a raw score.. i get a large range of scaled scores..
for example.. my yesterdays scores ranged from:</p>
<p>Math (raw score 51.75= ~52), the range for this is 720-800. What number do i pick? i mean that is kind of stupid.. what is the point of the range?? And today, i took another practice test.. and my missed 2 on math (rather than -1: yesterdays score) and the range has now dropped to 700-800. This test is ridiculous! it marks you down exponentially!!</p>
<p>Well yeah, the point of a curve is to mark you down exponentially, but it’s according to how others did in the test. The practice tests aren’t real past papers, just a collection of questions, so they don’t actually have a curve for the tests and just give you score ranges.</p>
<p>Best bet is to just average out the score range. E.g. for 700-800 just assume it’s 750. If you want to try some past papers with actual curves (rather than score ranges), then check out the SAT preparation guides (Google it). You can find one’s from 2006 to 2009 on the internet.</p>
<p>What I do is, I use the scale available from the SAT Booklet (they publish it each year).
And I compare this number with the average of the “scale.”</p>
<p>For instance, according to this scale, 47 refers to 610 on CR, 690 on M, and 77 on Writing MC.</p>