January 23rd Sat - HARSH WRITING SECTION

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Congrats to everyone who got their ideal scores in the latest SAT!

I am quite gutted because my writing score is significantly lower ( around 120 points lower) than anything I have ever got in any SAT practice test and the Dec 2015 test.

Did anyone else find that the grading for the writing section seemed especially harsh? Whilst I don’t want to appear to be making excuses (clearly I dropped the ball in the writing section) I am interested to hear what you guys think.

Thanks- and good luck to those who haven’t checked!!

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I got a 10 on the essay the first 2 times I took the test, and this time I only got an 8 :/. I felt like the grading was harder this time. The 8 cost me a perfect on the SAT, so I’m kind of bitter, but we can’t do anything about it because that part of the test is so subjective. I got a perfect on the writing MC part though.

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I got a 750 on the October sitting (76 MC with one wrong and a 9 essay) and a 790 on the January sitting (78 MC with one wrong I suppose? and a 10 essay). Honestly I’ve always abhorred the SAT essay and really, a good amount of the grading seems like luck to me.

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I felt the same about the scoring of the writing section. I did okay on the critical reading and math sections but writing did hit me hard. It dragged down my overall score. :frowning:

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Strangely enough I did a lot worse on the December SAT, but I got a 790 on this SAT, probably because of more preparation though

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same! I got a really good score(1 wrong) in writing in December but was trying to improve my CR (which I did). I didn’t find writing hard at all this time and thought maybe one wrong, But I scored a whole 60 points lower which is very surprising to me.

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Asked a question, found the answer.

Congrats to all of you who did so well!

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I actually got an 800 on the writing, and I have never done that good before on the actual test. Maybe the scaling was harsher for this test though if you got some wrong.

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I’m happy with my score but I’m bitter too. A 770 in writing cost me a perfect score, and I got a -2 on MC with a 10 essay. It’s especially frustrating because I think I know which 2 I got wrong, and I literally changed those two answers from the correct ones, and that cost me a perfect score. Oh well, I’m still super happy though!