<p>...wow
I received disappointing scores on the October SAT but I was confident I did well. As it turns out, the curve for each section is comparable to the harshest curve on all previous tests within the past year. </p>
<p>:/</p>
<p>Yea, I was wondering if CB messed up on scoring…
This is stupid
I missed only 9 questions on CR which is a 56 Raw. This is normally 680. I got a 660. 
whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy</p>
<p>i missed three mc on the writing for 700. yeah its harsh.</p>
<p>Wow I missed 1 on math and got 770 :-(</p>
<p>Agreed, my daughter took the SAT for fourth time in October, thought she did well, and then her super-score (2170) did not go up on any of the sections. Per her wishes, she is done with the SAT, but my advice to others is to take it again in November. </p>
<p>Also, for juniors and sophomores thinking about the SAT, I strongly recommend talking it in June (after taking it at least once before that). All of my kids did this and experienced their biggest jumps in June, including one son who jumped form 2120 to 2290 and another who jumped from 1880 to 2130. The SAT is graded based on a curve and thus scores depend on who takes the tests. I suspect fewer top students take the SAT in June as most take it in May and then figure they can re-take the following school year.</p>
<p>@muck </p>
<p>Those are great improvements but the date or the people who take it that day have nothing to do with the curve. CB decides the difficulty of the questions and makes a curve based on that. So everyone can score perfect scores and its not based on the performance of others.</p>
<p>The curves are predetermined.That’s the point of experimental sections</p>
<p>I agree I missed 1 math question and got a 770, 1 wrong is normally an 780 to 800. If I followed the curve in the Blue Book my score should have been 60 points higher.</p>
<p>Eagles 94, not saying you are incorrect but please cite your support re pre-determined curves regardless of quality of test takers. The experience of students on this site suggests that is not the case.</p>
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<p>2 wrong dropped it to 740! :(</p>
<p>I’d agree, this was a particularly brutal curve!</p>
<p>5x (2 sent., 3 passage) on CR- 720
7x & 4 om. on M-630
3x & 8 essay- 690</p>
<p>The scale is pretty typical. Writing always seems harsh (-3 = 70 mc), but it’s like that on every test. Compared to Oct 2011, it looks like math and writing are about the same, but reading had a tougher scale this year. Oct 11 Reading was raw 64=800.</p>
<p>I thought they used experimental to determine difficulty level of the problems. Then the test is curved after the official test. But maybe I’m wrong?..</p>
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<p>Check out “what is the sat curve”</p>
<p>nyustern13,</p>
<p>Thanks and very interesting.</p>
<p>Anyone know what the CR score was for two wrong answers on the Oct 2012 test?</p>
<p>the curve for writing was so harsh
missed only 2 MC (74 subscore, essay 9) ended up getting 730, but I am international student</p>
<p>2 wrong on CR was an 800</p>
<p>Besides the math curve, which was a bit tougher, the curve was pretty normal.</p>
<p>Everytime I take the SAT, the math is always harsh. I was part of that Jan 2012 SAT and this one. -4 here. For writing, I’m not sure how I missed 10 in mc, (7 in improving sentences). I usually miss none or 1 here.</p>
<p>none in improving sentences, but usually miss -3 in identifying errors, idk what happened, 660 for -10, 11 essay.</p>