@candjsdad No, from PSAT we expected higher on Reading but it’s close. She’s a humanities student and excellent writer. I hoped for 750/750 so she’s not far off but expected a 750 reading had a higher probability than 750 math.
She has an extremely busy schedule and has done little prep ever for a standardized test. She did shore up math a little after PSAT since she hasn’t had prob and stats. Since she’s class of 2017 jammed between two SAT versions she’ll take it once in October to have a Super Score and call it a day. Subject tests scheduled for June.
Just trying to understand a little better about the new sat scoring. Can people post the section raw scores (in 10 to 40 scale) for reading, writing plus language, and math, along with how many correct answers for each score?
My son missed 8 on reading and 1 on writing for a score of 730. Very surprised because he got a 36 CR and 36 English on ACT and a 760 back in October for the PSAT ERW (5x reading,1x English). He left the March SAT test feeling like he got them all correct so there must have been some close/tricky ones… And combined questions can hurt.
He only took it for NMS possibly, sticking with ACT. Don’t want to give college board another dime once subject tests are over.
Remember, there were different forms given so the curve could be different, even at the same test center. My son took the Saturday test.
I personally thought the reading section had a great curve but writing was very harsh. I got -6 in both reading and writing. My reading subscore with -6 was still a 38/40, which I also got on math with a -3. The writing however, was also -6 but a 33/40 which is very harsh compared to the others. Its the only reason I am retaking.
My 8th grader’s Reading score is 710 (-8 in Reading, -3 in Writing), 95th percentile. Math score is 690 (-11), 91st percentile – not surprising since she hasn’t had Trig yet! These percentiles are the lower ones on the report (of typical 11th & 12th graders). Not really sure what the stats are for other younger test takers, but would be interested to hear from others whose 8/9/10th graders took the new test.
I don’t know if you can compare the ACT reading and new SAT reading, since they are pretty different. @itsgettingreal17 Is you D used to the ACT english section? because the new SAT writing is really similar to ACT english.