<p>Can someone send me the PDF please ?</p>
<p>Dude.</p>
<p>The College Board has a long-standing practice of recycling not just individual questions but entire exams. Three tests administered in late 2004 and 2005, as the SAT was transitioning to its new format, were repeats from recent years, according to Steve Quattrociocchi, head of the test-prep division at The Princeton Review.</p>
<p>Everyone knows. Every year, someone complains. Nothing is changed. Get. Over. It.</p>
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<p>If I knew that, I would have done whatever it takes to find the old unreleased tests.</p>
<p>Lol if this is such a normal practice why is everyone acting so secretive and not sending the PDF’s to anyone -___-.</p>
<p>Agree with you…
I just want to see the curve…</p>
<p>the curve is just the 2008 - 2009 curve from blue book. ITS WRONG. The curve is WRONG. They have no way of knowing the curve, it was never released.</p>
<p>As someone who’s been on CC for a long while (this is a 2nd account, by the way, since it’s technically against College Board rules to discuss SAT questions and answers at all) and has taken the SAT before, I’d never heard of this happening before Saturday. If this is common knowledge then few people actually know, and more should. It’s not something we should ‘get. over.’ if it’s given some people an extremely unfair advantage–this is a completely unethical practice by the College Board, and we’d have a right to complain. I agree with past posters, though, that if this is indeed a common practice by the CB, chances are slim they’d change it. But if I’d known this earlier I would’ve spent my money on ACT, Inc. instead.</p>
<p>Everyone, including myself, wants to see the key, apparently, but the .pdf file was only posted here for a short time before mods removed it, and Google isn’t showing anything. There’s way too many people asking (see: pg. 46-47 chain–by the way, I do not recommend posting your email online unfiltered, lest spambots get ahold of it), and if you’re one of them, don’t expect to ever see the key…unless there’s someone out there who would be willing to spend their time sharing it with random strangers over the internet and expect nothing in return.</p>
<p>The good news–if this is true, because it’s only a hypothesis–is that SAT tests are pre-curved. (Including this one, if it was released in the past.) This means that your own score wasn’t affected by the cheaters…again, if it’s true, which I hope it is.
(Though this doesn’t necessarily mean it’s pre-curved, [url=<a href=“http://sat.collegeboard.com/scores/sat-behind-the-scenes]this[/url”>http://sat.collegeboard.com/scores/sat-behind-the-scenes]this[/url</a>] does say that your score is not affected by others’ “ability levels”.)</p>
<p>SAT tests are not pre-curved. However, if a test were reused in its entirety (which I have not heard of before, either), then of course the curve from the previous test would still be valid for the re-administration. In any case, whether a test is repeated or a completely new test is administered, your score is unaffected by the performance of others.</p>
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Source? 10char</p>
<p>Quit whining, everyone. Just take the test again if you didn’t do well.</p>
<p>I agree with Webass. Most of us believe that the SAT tests are pre-curved, and you come in here and say something so outrageous. You MUST backup your opinion with some evidence.</p>
<p>Chickenfire
yeah ur right… i read somewhere (in the sat subject tests forums i believe) that the tests were pre-curved- hence the standardized assessment test.</p>
<p>Can someone email a copy of the released test to <a href="mailto:habmike@gmail.com">habmike@gmail.com</a>
If you do, I have other QAS’, APs, PSATs, ACTs, that I can give in return. Thanks a ton.</p>
<p>I don’t think anyone knows if the tests are pre-curved or not.</p>
<p>PioneerJones, no time, no money bro.</p>
<p>Actually, the guy who said that it wasn’t curved is right. If you look at his past posts, you’l see that he is very well informed (possibly the best) and we should probably trust his judgement. He makes a very concise summary of it somewhere…</p>
<p>yeah genesis i change my answer hehe.
gensis is right folks.
**SAT curve is dependent on the performance of the takers.<a href=“but%20i%20still%20think%20the%20subject%20tests%20are%20pre-curved”>/B</a></p>
<p>"The SAT is scored and curved on a modified normal distribution
SAT Subject Tests are scored and curved on skewed (sample) curves "</p>
<p>@webass and others: here is the reference information. Generally, I find people don’t read the references so I don’t post them ad nauseum but here they are.</p>
<p>1) First, read [this</a> College Board white paper](<a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/pdf/rn14_11427.pdf]this”>Higher Education Professionals | College Board) for the technical information about the curve / equating / standardization of the SAT. This is the primary reference.</p>
<p>2) Next, read [thread=760312]this thread[/thread] for a long but example-filled discussion of the curve.</p>
<p>3) Assuming you skipped (1) and (2), here is the executive summary:</p>
<p>The SAT curve (the chart that maps from your raw score to your scaled score) adjusts solely for the difficulty of the test: a harder test will have a nicer curve and an easier test will have a harsher curve. Someone who gets a 45/54 raw math score on a harder test will receive a better scaled score than a 45/54 on an easier test.</p>
<p>The curve is <em>not</em> adjusted so as to make the average score 500 or any other particular number. Likewise, the number of people receiving 800s is not fixed or predetermined.</p>
<p>The curve is <em>not</em> determined before the test is administered (although the difficulty of each question independently is known beforehand). Equating, which results in the curve, must be done after the test is given.</p>
<p>The curve does not depend on or account for the quality (or lack thereof) of the people taking the test in a given month. No one should worry about who is taking the test with them: it doesn’t matter.</p>
<p>All of the above is consistent with [this</a> College Board web page](<a href=“The SAT – SAT Suite | College Board”>The SAT – SAT Suite | College Board), which says:</p>
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<p>If you are confused as to how the above is true, and yet the curve is not pre-determined, you may need to read #1 for real this time.</p>
<p>math curve from pdf
i’ll only be posting the upper half so, I’m sorry
typing out all thjose numbers is too much- possible mistakes</p>
<p>No ask me for the pdf. I will not give it out.
54-800
53-790
52-760
51-740
50-720
49-710
48-700
47-690
46-680
45-670
44-660
43-650
42-640
41-640
40-630
39-620
38-610
37-600
36-590
35-590</p>
<p>may we all exceed those scores
Note: the cuurve may be different- doesn’t it change from year to year?</p>
<p>so there it is think what you will.</p>
<p>The curves attached to the PDF were not the same as the actual one used in October. It’s fairly easy to tell this because the page number on the curves is 52 while the last page is 42… there’s no way there were 10 pages in between. Also, the font seems a little different.</p>