June 2011 SAT Curve Speculation/Relative Difficulty

<p>Writing- About same
Math- Easier
Reading- Easier… thought Vocab was really easy</p>

<p>My friend said that overall the May/June SATs have a better curve because none of the seniors are taking the test. Statistically, seniors would have more knowledge than the lower classes and would thus contribute to a harsher curve, so who knows, perhaps we’ll get lucky.</p>

<p>^I realllly hope that’s true. Most seniors take it again in October, and they usually improve, so their scores would worsen the curve. I would guess that October has the worst curves then.</p>

<p>anyone wanna take some guesses?</p>

<p>-2 CR
-2MC, -1 Grid In Math
-4/-5 Writing, 8-10 essay.</p>

<p>Oh, I hate stupid mistakes. x.x</p>

<p>Also, imo…</p>

<p>CR was normal to easy.
Math was normal to easy. (Darn you stupid mistakes; could have had that 800.)
Writing was normal to slightly harder?</p>

<p>the math section killed me i skipped a max of 5 and at least 3 wrong…</p>

<p>Anyone willing to project some predictions for
Worst Case Scenario: </p>

<p>Math: 4 wrong, omit 1
Reading: 5 wrong
Writing: 3 wrong, 11 essay</p>

<p>In comparison to the March Test:
I felt like the math was easier, the writing easier, and the reading considerably harder. </p>

<p>I really hope the CR curve is nicer because in March, I got 3 questions wrong and got knocked to a 740.</p>

<p>imo
writing- on the easier side
math- few tricky problems but still straightforward
cr- this is where i died. some questions were kinda ambiguous</p>

<p>CR - medium to slightly difficult
Math - Easy to medium
Writing - Medium</p>

<p>Math - Normal-ish? I don’t know, math is by far my worst section so it’s always fairly difficult for me. Still, the math curve is always crazy harsh, so I assume it’ll be the same this time around.</p>

<p>CR - Passages were fine, but the sentence completion was abnormally difficult. Hopefully this translates into a fairly soft curve - I know someone who got 4 wrong on the May test and still got a 780, so I assume it’ll be similar this time around.</p>

<p>Writing - Average, I think. It seems like the curve is usually pretty decent for the writing (1-3 wrong and a 10+ essay should translate to an 800), so it’ll probably be the same.</p>

<p>Still, there’s no way our opinions can possibly determine the actual curve. The CC population is in NO way representative of the students taking the test, especially when you consider the fact that June is when all of the procrastinating slackers (like me!) take it.</p>

<p>Math: Easy
Writing: Easy to medium
CR: Medium, vocabulary is hard.
It seems everyone thinks different about the difficulty…
But I think the vocal is really harder this time.</p>

<p>Score predictions assuming worst case/best case scenario?</p>

<p>CR: 4 wrong (-5) / 3 wrong (-4) … 750-770.
M: 1 wrong (-1) <em>facepalm</em> … 770-790.
W: 2 wrong (-2) / 0 wrong (-0) & 10-12 essay … 750-800.</p>

<p>Cumulative: 2270-2360 (whatever, I’m done with SATs; today was my second sitting).</p>

<p>Please predict :slight_smile: :</p>

<p>CR: -5/-7
Writing: -1/-3 with 11/12 essay
Math: -6/-9 </p>

<p>All raw.</p>

<p>okay so the writing seemed abnormally easy, and so did the math, except for that damn april question</p>

<p>CR sentence completion, IMO, was unnaturally easy, but the questions for the passages were unnaturally awkward.</p>

<p>@lollwutt- I completely agree. I hated some of the passage based reading questions!
The sentence completion ones were a piece of cake…
Did anyone else abhor the censoring passage? That one passage is gonna keep me away from the 720-750 range… I feel that I got half of those wrong according to the consensus… =(</p>

<p>CR- vocab was pretty easy, passages were alright
Math-pretty easy, barring careless mistakes I don’t believe I missed any
Writing- the passage was longer and trickier than usual…everything else was fine</p>

<p>can anyone expalin the april math question?</p>

<p>also, wasn’t -1 on math an 800 in previous years? is it not anymore?</p>

<p>lollwutt-ok, so there was a 6 month period and it asked what percentage of “it” was from april. By subtracting the march and april numbers, u r able to find the amount of “it” produced in april. (I believe it was 100ish). Then u divide it by the total amount of numbers (the number in June). This gives u 9.96% or 10%. sorry, couldnt remember what “it” was haha</p>

<p>I think you guys were talking about the US question sets, right?</p>