Just curious, is anyone surprised by your reading scores from the March SAT? I have twins who usually have near-perfect scores on reading comprehension. One of them had 36s on both ACT English sections. However, both of them missed around 6 questions on the new SAT reading, putting them at a 750 and 760 for the SAT English sections. Those are good scores – I’m not really complaining, but I’m wondering if the SAT folks either underestimated the difficulty of some of the questions, or possibly had a couple of bad questions in this first go-around of the new test. The concordance tables they’ve released were based on a study, not on actual test takers from March, so they don’t really help much.
Yes, my D had similar results ACT English - 35; Reading - 36 New SAT 740. Her Fall '15 PSAT scores were in line with her ACT results. Same reaction here, good scores but a little lower than other testing performance.
Well, I’m really surprised that 6 wrong would be 750-760. My son got 8 wrong and received a 680. 
I guess the 2 additional questions he got wrong were extra valuable!?!? BTW, he received a 35 on ACT English, 34 ACT Reading. Not happy with the SAT score to be sure!!
@momoftres - Your son missed 8 total between the reading and writing and got a 680? That does seem very strange. These were my sons’ scores:
-5 Reading + -1 Writing = 760
-6 Reading + -1 Writing = 750
My son had 3 wrongs in the new SAT English section and got also 760. Seems that there are a lot of kids in the same score range.
-1 Reading + -2 Writing = 760
-4 Reading + -2 Writing = 740 score for my daughter
Wow, this is really strange, and what it says to me is that they had a lot more variability in the reading section than they knew what to do with. It’s sad that our kids have to be experimental subjects.
-4 Reading and -2 Writing = 750 score for my son. It’s obvious that each question had a different score value.
I was very surprised at my son’s reading score 720 with - 7 reading and -3 writing. He’ll be taking it again in the Fall and I think we’ll have to add the ACT too.
My son’s 700 had -6 reading & -8 writing… 94th percentile national college bound for this section.
TiggerDad–In one sense, the Writing questions are “worth more” than the Reading questions, because there are fewer Writing questions than Reading questions. A student’s performance on both sections is converted to a score on a scale of 10 to 40, and then those two scores are added and multiplied by 10 to yield the overall score. For example, a student who misses five Writing and five Reading questions would earn 37/40 on Reading but 35/40 on Writing. So, (37 + 35) X 10 = 720. (Note: I am just using the scoring guide for one of the sample tests published by the College Board, but the actual score will certainly vary a bit from test to test.)
-4 Reading and -1 writing = 760
My D felt it came down to judgement calls and her score could have gone either way.
If it comes down to guessing on a couple of questions, is there really a meaningful difference between a 750 and an 800?
It would help if everyone would post their percentiles next to their scores. One cannot compare a old SAT 700 to a new SAT 700. They are not the same thing.
760=99%
@glido What I was originally asking about was not so much the score, as the number of questions missed. It seemed strange to me that my kids who usually missed 1-3 reading comprehension questions missed 5-6. What is interesting now is the correlation of missed questions to scores.
I would actually argue that the percentiles are pointless. They aren’t actually based on the scores people received on the March SAT, they are based on a small “study sample” from a study they conducted in December. I would guess that the percentiles are well off of where they are in reality.
Don’t have time to double check numbers but pretty sure D was 6 wrong each in Reading, Writing, and Math. Reading was 710 and Math 750.
@Sportsman88 - Was that what she would have expected, or did she expect better numbers on the Reading portion?
On the old SAT, if you got 6 wrong on Reading, 6 wrong on Math and 6 wrong on Writing, your score would be around a 710, 670, 680. Obviously, different administrations of the old test had slightly different scales but I think my estimates are pretty accurate.
I know the scales are going to have changed. I’m wondering if the College Board had a hard time scoring this test because the responses were not as consistent as they would have hoped. In a different thread where students are responding to their scores, they seem to pretty consistently be surprised that their scores are lower than they have learned to expect from previous experiences.
Wow I got 5 reading 7 writing and got a 710