<p>haha ok, thought a catchy title would get you to read this.</p>
<p>I have 2 questions.</p>
<p>1) How can you take the SAT's in 9th grade. I hear about people doing it, but I don't know how.</p>
<p>2) Exactly how is the SAT graded. Do you get like 10 points for every question wrong out of the 800? Is 800 zero wrong? Sorry if I sound naive.</p>
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1) How can you take the SAT's in 9th grade. I hear about people doing it, but I don't know how.
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<p>You can take the SAT whenever and however many times you want. Most people opt to take it in their 2nd semester of their Junior year and/or 1st semester of their Senior year, but that's just the norm.</p>
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2) Exactly how is the SAT graded. Do you get like 10 points for every question wrong out of the 800? Is 800 zero wrong? Sorry if I sound naive.
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<p>You have your raw score and your scaled score. Your raw scale is generally out of 67 for CR, 54 for M, and 73 for W (including an essay which accounts for 24). You lose 0.25 points for every incorrect answer, excepting those to math "grid-in" questions. Your raw score is then converted to a scaled score, which is between 200 and 800. Generally, each raw score corresponds to a range of scaled scores (for example, 66 in CR, I believe, is 790-800).The curve, which is influence by the difficulty of the questions compared to those in previous administrations of the test and the percentiles of each score, can vary your scaled score considerably within the corresponding range. Depending on the curve, it's possible to score a 64 raw score and 800 scaled score. It's also possible to score a 66 and score a 760. Generally, the M section is the least forgiving, rarely giving an 800 for a raw score less than 53/54.</p>
<p>Thanks Godfatherbob, now I understand. =].</p>
<p>Do they determine the curve by how everyone else did? Or compared to difficulty of previous years tests.</p>
<p>Both. I think the latter carries more weight though. Could be wrong.</p>