<p>I'm feeling really miserable. I finished two math iic practice tests today; I scored 720 and 740.The thing is I'm an international and I seriously need an 800 (gotta be as competitive as possible since I'm gonna ask for FA). I'm afraid that in the real thing I'll do this bad. Anyone out there had low practice scores and did well on the real thing?</p>
<p>It happened to me in CR (690practice to 800 in the real thing) but I'm worried that it won't happen in this test.</p>
<p>NO offense but if you practiced a 690 CR and got an 800 then it was probably sheer dumb luck. It irritates me about how you can get so good luck when I have been practicing CR for a long time with avg score of 770 only to get 760 on the real test. Don't expect 800 on IIC unless you can get that on practice tests.</p>
<p>Like keta said...it could happen, as evident in your CR score, but it could not happen. The SAT is about getting lucky, in my opinion.</p>
<p>Except that the subject SATs, for the most part, focus on basic knowledge, so luck plays an even smaller role on the subject tests than it does on the reasoning test. The practice tests test the same knowledge as is on the actual test, so a low math 2 practice score probably indicates a low actual test score.</p>
<p>omg you are the luckiest man alive</p>
<p><em>raises hand</em>
practice on Barrons got like high 500s/low 600s. </p>
<p>got to the real test, found it rather easy. Checked stuff with the forum here on CC afterwards. so far so good. I'm hoping for an 800. we'll find out tomorrow</p>
<p>Personally, I do a whole lot better on the real thing, no matter what. </p>
<p>For example, 660-700 practice math scores equated to an 800 on the math section. A 670-710 practice verbal range equated to a 760 (one fricking question away from an 800) on the real thing. </p>
<p>I have yet to see my USH and Lit official scores, but my practice scores were just as low. =D</p>
<p>aqua rocket
keta: I guess so...hehe...thats why i like gambling, luck is awlways on my side. but i also just suck at practice, but i'm scared anyways, cause in real tests I've scored..yeah 690, but the last two 800 and 750...</p>
<p>my math practices were around 600s and in all my real sats I've consistently scored in the 700s</p>
<p>umm aquarocket....there has never been a verbal section on the SAT where the difference of one question is the difference between 760 and 800...</p>
<p>maybe he meant he got one wrong but omitted others...i guess</p>
<p>My friend got 4 questions wrong and scored a 690 on Math, which is just under 30 points per question, so it could happen.</p>
<p>hmm i missed 8 or 9 on the real thing in october and i recieved a 750.</p>
<p>there's no way 4 questions wrong is a 690 on math IIC, maybe on I but not II. that's like an 800.. unless i'm missing something...</p>
<p>i left 2 blank and i think i missed a few (like 5 or so) and i still got an 800. this was last june. most curves say missing 10 raw points is the max to get an 800. of course this depends on whether the test is easy or difficult. they are pre-set curves though.</p>
<p>What book are you taking tests from?</p>
<p>I took mine from PR 03-04. It was basically the test. Oh and remember I had absolutely NO conics (except maybe parabolas but still no foci / directrix or p's). don't stress TOO hard over conics but still... they may have changed the test.</p>
<p>x3, i think iljets10 meant the math from SAT I, which is very reasonable in fact.</p>