Colleges that superscore load all high school scores into their database and don’t even see when you took them. That’s the point of superscore, so yes, good scores sophmore year can help at those schools.
There is no weighting guys (meaning the hard questions are not weighed more than the easy ones), ** pros should know this **. There are different forms and the CR and Writing are scaled separately. So please include those subscores in the results threads.
Collegemomjam, with all due respect, the advice you’re passing along is misleading. No college prefers one test over the other. Colleges accept both SAT and ACT equally. If anything, you can just go on a college’s website and see for yourself that either test is fine.
Heresay is dangerous.
Your previous post said Ivies and in particular Georgetown prefer the SAT, which is completely false.
Your more recent post stating that colleges used to prefer the SAT is more accurate. But that is the past. However, making statements like those is misleading because people reading it will think it is still current information.
As for whether or not one should submit an ACT C35 and SAT 1500 (which is equivalent to C33), just ask yourself this:
If you took the ACT twice and got C35 and C33, would you submit both or just the C35?
There’s your answer.
“Weighting” questions could mean one of two different things, so let’s take a second to clarify that term.
Easy questions are not worth more points than hard questions, and vice-versa. But there is not a direct relationship between the overall number of questions wrong on your SAT, and your composite score, for two main reasons:
The March SAT likely included several different versions of the test, each scaled separately (according to relative difficulty) and thus resulting in different relationships between the section score and the # of questions wrong on that section, as evidenced by the score data that has been shared by others thus far. For example, on most Reading sections, you can get 1-2 wrong and still get a perfect score, but 2 wrong on Math can yield a score anywhere from around 750 to 790, depending on the curve of that particular test.
The fewer questions per section, the more “weight” that question will have on your overall score. Writing and Language has 44 questions, Reading has 52 and Math has 58. Because the Writing and Reading scores are combined into one score, one Writing question has a slightly larger impact on your Reading and Writing score than does one Reading question.
Let’s not get distracted by the negative nellies on this thread who act as if all of this isn’t brand-new information about a brand-new test. Don’t be afraid to ask questions just because of the condescending tone of some members of this forum. We are all eternal students, and most of us are here for learning and helping others, instead of posturing.
In the thread “New SAT Reading Scores”, some people have posted how many they missed in Reading and Writing and what their scores were. We need more posts to get a clearer pattern, but so far, it seems that missing one question in Reading subtracted 10 points, and missing one question in Writing subtracted 10 points.
I got a 760 what the actual fuck is up with these intellectual weenies giving me weak sauce scores… I’m so sick and tired of getting wrecked by these big fat losers… I just want to go to community college for fucks sake. However, i guess im not good enough and will probally end up working at McDonalds down the street from my house. I guess i can smoke weed and deal dope for a litttle whileee longerrr, but i think my times running up so i gotta go beat my meat ttyl fam.
Wow. I’m a little intimidated by these posts…
I scored a 1260 on the March SAT (610 reading and 650 Math) with a 6/6/6 essay score.
For my overall score:
87% National Percentile
81% User Percentile
For reading:
81% National Percentile
72% User Percentile
For math:
90% National Percentile
86% User Percentile
So I took the May SAT so its a little bit before I hear my scores. Did you March SAT takers get similar scores to your practice tests? Did you feel your score was what you expected?
I walked out feeling good about the SAT so I hope that corresponds to a good score!
Thanks for the feedback here.
In general is it still worth retaking SAT to enhance the score beyond 1550 ?
I took the May SAT too, and thought it was pretty easy as well. The best part of the May test is that you can order an actual copy of the test afterward via College Board’s “Question and Answer Service,” which is not offered for the March test.
no
https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sat/scores/verifying-scores (Click on “Question and Answer Service”)
The QAS is currently offered in October, January and May.
Any tips for the word in context questions? I would like to improve on those. Any help would be helpful.
Good point, @chillkitty about many competitive schools requiring ALL scores…and even what they mean by “all” scores varies…U of Penn, Georgetown, and Stanford (off the top of my head, there may be others) ALL require ALL tests ever taken (a complete testing history), so if you took SAT and ACT they want to see both. I don’t think that’s fair but that’s what they say (I just looked up Penn to make sure it hasn’t changed and it hasn’t).
So what is a good new SAT score? I agree this seems vague because the chart they published makes it seem like you need a 1560 to compete with a 35 ACT, which does seem a bit high (for the old SAT I think a 1540 equated to a 35). This is why I brought up the point about the 34.5 or 34.75…it just seems that the SAT scores are more detailed…it makes me wonder if some schools might actually bring the composites down to “quarters” when they are comparing scores in an attempt to be more fair?
I know if I were an admissions rep I would be quite impressed with a 1500 ish score on this new SAT given the fact that there has been very little material made available to help you prepare. I’m impressed with the fact that those of you that took the new SAT in March took it and did as well as you did. Whether or not you send your scores is going to have to be your decision based on all of the information available to you. When in doubt, this actually might be a good reason to reach out to the admissions rep that covers your geographical location and ask them what they think, and ask them if they will be using the concordance tables put out by the college board. Many schools will likely say send us everything and we will use whatever makes you look best, which I think they truly do. They are looking for reasons to admit you, not to not admit you so if you send a 35 ACT and a 1520 New SAT, I don’t think they will value that 35 ACT any less…but if you aren’t sure, maybe you can ask them. It might be a good way to get your name in front of them anyway (a topic for another discussion, do they track interest this way and does it help/hurt you?) Or just go with your gut and just send that ACT if you are more comfortable with that.
The truth of the matter is, none of us @mmk2015 (I’m assuming) have any real idea what goes on inside each admissions office or inside each admission rep’s mind when reviewing an app. All we can do is put forth the best possible application possible. We are all on this thread and CC in general because we are looking for support and advice. I think that we all would agree that we all have to keep in mind that there are a lot of opinions (many based on hearsay, but some of that hearsay might actually be valuable to hear) thrown around here. We need to all weed it out for ourselves and decide with the guidance of our parents/counselors/teachers what is the best strategy for our individual applications. And if very well may vary BY SCHOOL because they are all unique in how they view things (for example, Stanford WANTS the new SAT with writing!!!).
And here is what I wrote to begin with (you might want to note that I straight out say that it might not be true):
For what it is worth, and this may very well not be true, I have heard that there are some schools out there that truly prefer SAT…I have heard this about Ivies and Georgetown, in particular. With the new changes this year, who knows how they will feel about it.
So I agree, what I heard (and I did hear it from people in the know, trust me) may be a moot point this year (if not this year, definitely next). Now the new SAT is supposedly more like the ACT so if there were any hidden preferences in the past, one would assume they would be gone if the new SAT is truly more like the ACT.
I believe I already ordered that.
Yes, pre-ordering the QAS is the right way to go. Unfortunately the copy of the May SAT usually doesn’t arrive until after the June test, but you could use the May test to help prepare you for the October 2016 SAT, if necessary.
I’m trying to access the link for a discussion group for the April 2016 SAT (school day) test. There is a page with four comments, and one has a link. But when I click on that link, I get the message that i don’t have permission. Really?
Here’s what one expert recommends:
https://greentestprep.com/resources/sat-prep/new-sat-vs-act/
Yeah I don’t want to take the SAT anymore, so hopefully my SAT scores from the April school day administration are somewhat higher.
@realtwinkie 1470 here as well haha! 720 (CR+W) and 750 Math (:
Do you guys have any tips for the english sections (reading)? Any help would be great.