March SAT Curve

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<p>OK, heres what I think. Tell me if you think this is too lenient or too harsh and say why, and I'll update it to match the general consensus. I'm using <a href="http://www.erikthered.com/tutor/SAT-Released-Test-Curves.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.erikthered.com/tutor/SAT-Released-Test-Curves.pdf&lt;/a> and my knowledge of how hard this test was in relation the Jan SAT that I took.</p>

<p>M
800 (-0)
780
750
730
710
700
680
670
660
650
650
640
630
620
610
600</p>

<p>CR
800 (-0)
800
800
780
760
740
730
720
700
690
680
670
660
650
640
630
630
620
610
600</p>

<p>W (without essay)
80 (-0)
79
76
73
71
69
68
66
65
64
62
61
60</p>

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<p>I feel like the math is too harsh and the writing too lenient?</p>

3

<p>I’ve thought about it a bit and here is the updated list:</p>

<p>M
800 (-0)
780
760
730
710
700
690
670
660
650
650
640
630
620
610
600</p>

<p>CR
800 (-0)
800
800
780
760
740
730
720
700
690
680
670
660
650
640
630
630
620
610
600</p>

<p>W (without essay)
80 (-0)
78
76
74
71
69
68
66
65
64
62
61
60</p>

4

<p>what does the writing mean? does it include the essay?</p>

5

<p>I feel like the math would be harsher?? because when I took the SAT in oct, 1 wrong in math was 770 and the december one 3 wrong was 720</p>

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<p>The writing subscore is what your score would be (x10) if there was no essay. If your essay was much better than your writing subscore, your writing score would be a little higher. For example, if you got a 68 on this chart but had a 12 essay, you would end up with around a 720. Likewise, an 80 subscore but a 6 essay would give you a 740 or so. </p>

<p>I wrote the curve like this because it is almost impossible to predict the curves with the essay scores.</p>

7

<p>@silverstone did you think this math section was much easier?</p>

8

<p>Math looks right to me. It was definitely more difficult than January’s.</p>

9

<p>Math still looks too harsh, but the others look about right.</p>

10

<p>Well if your curve is right so far I’m looking at a 780-800 for CR, which is pretty damn good. I just think it may be a little lenient, maybe only -2=800 would be more realistic, but maybe I’m just being pessimistic</p>

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<p>

That’s what his curve states (-2= 800 in CR).</p>

12

<p>Oh right. Gotcha</p>

13

<p>i’m new to the whole SAT scoring. lets say i got 8 wrong on math and omitted two, would that still be a 650?</p>

14

<p>Hmm, according to this, I got 740 on CR. I guess I’ll take that over my 680 in Jan.</p>

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<p>@mandyvee77
according to this chart that would be a 630</p>

<p>multiply your missed questions by 1.25 to get -10 and the subtract -2 for your omitted questions and you have a -12 raw score, so count down 12 spaces.</p>

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<p>The math curve seems right. I think I’m gonna get the 780 instead of the 800 I got last time :frowning:
CR I’m not sure. December’s curve was -2 is 790 and it was around the same difficulty.</p>

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<p>I don’t understand why we bother to guess what the curve is, when no matter what we guess the score we get will be the score we get…</p>

18

<p>So how does yesterday’s test compare to january in CR, wr and M?</p>

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<p>Also, my D thinks she got 5 wrong in CR and left out 2, is this a 700 or 690? Thanks</p>

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<p>The consensus is that CR was easier that January (where the curve was -3 790)
the WR seemed slightly harder than January to me, and the math was slightly harder than January (where -2 was a 740).</p>