FYI, to my best memory - this 2016 Jan SAT is very similar to 2014 Jun SAT. My score was considered High at my HS (I was a freshman). 2014 Jun was my very first SAT sitting, that’s why I remember - but not 100% sure. Start studying for New SAT in Mar
@dallaspiano this 2016 Jan SAT IS the exact same test as the 2014 Jun SAT-if you look at the 2014 June SAT thread, there are the exact same questions discussed
Does anyone know if national merit semifinalists have to take the new SAT to be eligible for national merit finalist? or can they just report their old SAT score (2400 scale) to do this?
@L3tan3, you’re probably right. But myself, not 100%sure (after 18 mo), OK? Can you provide a link to 2014 June SAT test, I can not remember after 160+ questions, and practiced at least 15 full length SAT tests from C rac k sat. Tell u what, I can not even remember more than 6 when my dad asked about the test I took when he pick me up
Does anyone know the answer to the math question about the median being 99? I think I put 197 or 198.
197
@dallaspiano sorry, I don’t have access to the June 2014 test because college board doesn’t release june SATs. However, in only 2 weeks, they will release the Jan 23 2016 test, so you would be able to see all the questions then
@dallaspiano they release only the Jan, May, and Oct tests through their question and answer service
@L3tan3, to answer your post #787
For 2016 NMF - Page1 (item 7) of this link http://www.nationalmerit.org/Merit_R&I_Leaflet.pdf
you see " between October 2013 and December 2015"
For 2017 NMF, you can submit SAT score results between October 2014 and December 2016
@dallaspiano Do you know how the new PSAT results are used to determine national merit semifinalists? Is the cutoff score just the score out of 1520 or is it some selection index out of 218?
Many conflicting stories about NMF cut off, like TS, SI, %tiles but rules are simple. Filter 1,724,416 test takers (11th grade), get 50000 top, then get 16000 out of 50000 - rest 34000 considered commended, final take 15000 out of 16000 - 1000 will be NMSF, 15000 will be NMF. The 15000 will be allocated by state population to whole US population. Headache, example TX get 1353, CA get 2025 or something like that
aww, i live in CA…
How do you guys think the writing curve will be? Any chance for a perfect MC and a 9 essay = 800??? College Panda gives that scenario an 83% chance, so the curve would have to be pretty brutal for it to not be a perfect. I don’t think the writing was THAT easy though.
@JuicyMango yeah, i know I missed at least 1 writing (the baboon one) and probably made a few other careless mistakes. I thought the curve was determined from previous month’s test scores??
No I do not think the curve is based on the people who take it rather the questions themselves.
Sigh…every section was harder except for math 
Can anyone tell me what the Baboon question was? Like what was the sentence and what type of question was it?
does everyone get the same essay prompt or were there several ones? I felt like mine was super hard???
@giriboy there are several different essay prompts. I was lucky because I got an essay one. It was about how much importance people should place on advice
I don’t understand. Are SAT questions in USA different from the ones given to students in other countries? I am seeing plenty of questions on this thread that I didnt see on my test 4 days ago.