I need an SAT/ACT conversion chart!

Test Preparation
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<p>Anyone? I've taken the SAT and am taking the ACT next Saturday. I want to be prepared, so if anyone has the score conversions, muchas gracias. If anyone has how long it takes to receive ACT scores, that would be good too.</p>

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<p>There is no score conversions. They are entirely different tests, you cannot accurately compare them to one another.</p>

<p>As for results, you can get them online 2-3 weeks after testing for an $8 fee. Or, you can wait for them to be mailed, which will be longer, but will be free.</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.collegeboard.com/sat/cbsenior/html/stat00f.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.collegeboard.com/sat/cbsenior/html/stat00f.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Be wary of relying on that College Board conversion chart and all other ones you find on-line since those are based on the CB chart. Use it only as an approximate guide because it is based on a comparison of percentile rankings done 10 years ago based on scores from 1994-95. Many colleges use conversion tables as a guide for their own use but many of those create their own based on more modern data and that data generally shows something diffent from that on-line conversion chart, e.g., many ACT scores now compare to SAT scores that are higher by 20 to 40 points than shown in that chart; e.g., the chart shows a 29 equalling a 1300 SAT but percentile comparisons from last five years would have that 29 closer to 1330.</p>

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<p>thanks for all the info. above all, i'm just hoping to do better on the ACT than I did on the SAT. since there's no guessing penalty, i think i could go up at least a little bit.</p>

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<p>Yes, the comparison charts are off. Look at the comparable percentiles. For example:
ACT Compostite 30
Percentile 97%
SAT/ACT Conversion 1320-1350
YET, SAT 97% would be about a 1400
I know that not as many students take the SAT, etc, but I would like to think that college would give you the best possible number.</p>

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<p>Is there one that goes to the 2400 scale?</p>

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<p>I have seen some ACT/SAT tables converting to the 2400 level, but those have been charts that take the old College Board chart and just extrapolate out to the 2400 layer. Those have no reliability even as a guide.</p>

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<p>just average your three subscores then multiply by two to change an new one into an old one. Although that's probably skewed somewhat because there are three sections instead of 2, the estimate will be on the low (safe) side.</p>