<p>@ takemymoney, you have to understand that the writing curve is pretty brutal. A 40 point decrease means you probably only missed 1-2 more MC questions that your previous test; it can easily be a mistake on your part. Now, a 200-300 points discrepancy provides basis for an abnormality in scoring… but not so much in your case.</p>
<p>Yeah I get how CB discourages people from trying to speak out against any possible scoring mistakes. Either by support from people who received a high score on accident, or that $50 fee. If you think they don’t make mistakes keep thinking that if it doesn’t affect you. Otherwise let us find out for ourselves.</p>
<p>I think that there is something funny going on. A couple of my friends, no offense to them, never even come close to scoring as high as I did on all of our practice tests and now they are getting higher scores than me. I think CB overscored some people and underscored others</p>
<p>I had the same problem. My Calc teacher told me that with these tests, what you really have to do is look at the rubric and give them exactly what they want. I too tried to give fancy examples and use great vocab, but I guess that was not enough.</p>
<p>Yeah. every practice i took. I got 800 on writing. THis time around I got like a 600.</p>
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<p>Copied from a similar thread in the SAT Preparation subforum.</p>