Only missed 2 on math, got a 740? is -30 points per question normal?

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<p>@Bartleby 007: I just saw your post and rechecked scores. I was wrong, she had 2 incorrect on CR for a 780 ( but your students had the same and earned 800?), 1 wrong and essay 9 = 760 WR and 1 wrong, 4 omitted = 690 M. I don’t suppose it’s worth pursuing with CB for 20 points but an 800 sure would have been nice for her.</p>

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<p>I missed one and skipped one and got 740 :(</p>

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<p>Personally, I think the SAT curves will continue to worsen. The test takers are the ones who determine the difficulty of the questions. As the quality of the test takers improves, the what-used-to-be medium and hard questions become easy and medium questions respectively, and hence the harsh curves.</p>

<p>StevenToCollege</p>

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<p>People:</p>

<p>How others taking the current version (the test that a registant is take at the same time) has NOTHING to do with the “curve”. </p>

<p>Based on how people in PAST TESTINGS did on the questions being asked, the test is calibrated. The questions you are seeing now are questions that were in earlier experimental sections. 740M score for a RS of 54-2 means that the questions on the test were slightly easier than for a RS 54-2 that scaled to 750M or 760M.</p>

<p>Another thing that people fail to remember or seem to be ignoring is that scores should NEVER be seen as absolutes. If you receive a score of 740M, this means that IF your “TRUE SCORE” is 740, you will receive a score within 30-40 points above or below 2/3 of the time if you take the test and infinite number of times.</p>

<p>So, 740, could be as much as 780 or as “low” as 700…AND (Because getting a 740 might mean you scored at the high end of your “true” score - or even the low end. An argument can me made that a 740 could mean between 820 and 660 and since 820 doesn’t happen, it means between 800 and 660.</p>

<p>The higher the score, the less precise it is.</p>

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<p>got one wrong and got a 760. Another reason for the score being lower is because -2 with no omit is actually a -3 raw score, due to the guessing penalty.</p>

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<p>No, -2 is still -2. For example, if you get 2 wrong out of total 54 questions for math, your raw score will be 52. That is, 51.5=54-2-0.5 which gets rounded to 52.</p>

<p>StevenToCollege</p>

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<p>Yeah wait until those PSAT curves next month; even bigger bs -_-</p>