<p>I was thinking about it, and with the tests the morning after halloween, I'd expect some students spent the previous night partying and as a result, were not in top testing form.</p>
<p>Might halloween make this sitting's curve a tiny bit nicer?</p>
<p>What do you guys think?</p>
<p>haha i thought of the exact same thing!!
let’s hope that is true!</p>
<p>I think more motivated students would take the SAT the day after Halloween or maybe the really really stupid ones who forgot November 1st falls after October 31st. I’m thinking the curve would probably be about the same.</p>
<p>I don’t think there’ll necessarily be a better curve, but I’m hoping colleges will be a little more lenient if you don’t do well (as in my case) because of whatever reason. They say that colleges understand that you have bad testing days, so maybe the day after Halloween is definitely one of them lol.</p>
<p>no, seniors are running out of time, and they don’t really have a choice.
so about same number would take on nov. 1. </p>
<p>stupid kids decide to party all night.
although they wouldn’t have gotten a good score anyways, they got lower
scores than what they would have gotten without partying all night.</p>
<p>and there are some kids, who do well in math, but decide to party.
so i mean, more kids than usual partied, went trick or treating
so i’mm guessing little bit higher curve :)</p>
<p>I hope so too, as long as I don’t fall under the category of “those kids.” :)</p>
<p>The curve is designed to correct for the difficulty of the test, not for how good (or bad, in the case of the partiers) the people taking the test are.</p>
<p>What this means is that, for example, if every single person partied too late and was really tired, you could have no one scoring higher than 700, say. Or, you could by chance have everyone taking the test be a genius, in which case you might have the lowest score be a 780. In both cases, the curve would be roughly the same since the difficulty of the test doesn’t vary that much.</p>
<p>true.</p>
<p>but the way how CB decides how difficult the test was by comparing the average
score with previous scores. CB will curve more if the results for the nov. 1 lower than what they had gotten previously</p>
<p>Well, not quite. Scores and percentiles are not adjusted in order to keep them the same as previous tests. The equating section (also known as the experimental or non-graded section) is used to determine the quality of the people taking the test by using some questions identical to ones given previously. The reason for doing this is that there are two ways in which raw scores could be lower on a particular test: a) the test was too hard, or b) the group of people taking this test were less skilled than average. The repeated questions allow the CB to decide how much a reduction in the average raw score was due to (a) and to curve accordingly.</p>
<p>No…I think it’s a worse curve…
This is the reason… since the deadlines are near, the “good students” who did well in the SAT I tend to finish their subject tests in Nov… which is a bad news for language test and science tests…</p>
<p>I wouldn’t read too much into it. Most “dumb kids” I know didn’t go to parties/etc and went to bed EARLIER than they would have if it wasn’t halloween</p>
<p>Lol you guys read in to this way too much. Just wait until the scores come out</p>