***March 2016 SAT (US Only) Thread*** |New Redesigned SAT Discussion Thread

Jk found it. 1450 is a 32 so I found by goal but that doesn’t seem promising :frowning:

@czechitout https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sat-score-converter/id1102533882?mt=8
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.collegeboard.concordance&hl=en

Official tables are up

@buffalo11 , could you provide us a link please?

https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/educators/higher-ed/scoring-changes/concordance

https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/xls/concordance-tables-new-sat-scores-old-sat-scores.xls

Why is it so horrible; it isn’t that much easier

Wow. I am not looking forward to getting my scores now.

i regret not just taking the act :))

Jesus christ. Does that mean my 1370 PSAT was equivalent to a 29? I thought I did so much better

Yes, basically. I thought I did well also until I saw the charts

Can anyone confirm this? The PSAT only goes up to 1520 does that I mean I should add 80 to my score to predict the SAT?

The PSAT is out of 1520, but college board said that your score shouldn’t go up by 80 points. I don’t know why, but I think that is what they said.

This is straight up BS. I need a 1490 for a 2150.

Link? Do you know if it should go up at all?

@froshman12 The rationale given for making the PSAT top score 1520 instead of 1600 is that the PSAT is a less demanding test than the SAT, so a perfect score on the PSAT would not necessarily predict a perfect score on the SAT. They said that setting it up this way meant that if a student had taken the SAT at the exact time they took the PSAT, their score on the SAT would closely match their PSAT score. The assumption is that, by the time the person actually takes the SAT later on, their skills will have improved above the level they were at when they took the PSAT, and they will get a higher score on the SAT than they did on the PSAT taken earlier.

I was right about the 1500 ~ high 2100 - low 2200

How was difficulty of the math section compared to the old test?

BunnyBlue thanks for the insight. Good to know.

CB is foolish to create confusion. It should’ve just made getting 1600 on the PSAT ridiculously hard. For example, 1 mistake anywhere drops you to 1550. Or worse: 1520. Problem solved. And you would have a 1600 pt scale on both the PSAT and SAT avoiding confusion.

If a student can get 1600 on the PSAT, then with preparation, that same student can get 1600 on the SAT.

Leave it to CB to complicate a simple 1600 pt scale.

There’s no use complaining now. We aren’t changing anything.

@mmk2015 Yes, I think it was better when each section had a maximum score of either 80 or 800. There weren’t any problems scoring the tests that way for all those decades. Why change it now and confuse everyone? Back in my day (think love beads and lava lamps), the upper tails of the PSAT and SAT results were much more spread out, and 80’s and 800’s were quite scarce. For most people, there was still plenty of room at the top of the scale to get a higher score on the SAT than the PSAT.