Possible Mistake on my Scores?

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<p>Alright, my scores came back and I am not too happy. My highest taking before was a 670 CR, 720 M, 630 W (8 essay). The one I got back today is 650 CR, 750 M, 790 W (12 essay). This looks like a great improvement, but most of the colleges I am looking at don't even look at writing scores, which brings me to my problem.</p>

<p>When I took this test, I knew I got a few CR questions wrong, but not nearly as many to warrant a 650. In addition, I felt that my essay was worse than the previous one, yet I scored a perfect score, and I felt I got quite a few multiple choice questions wrong.</p>

<p>So, should I call collegeboard and request a recheck or just leave it as is?</p>

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<p>You might as well just leave it the way it is. I also scored much lower on CR (660) than I had initially predicted, but I assume there were no errors in the scoring process.</p>

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<p>theres definitely something wrong with the scoring...i thought id at least get a 700 on CR but got a 660...</p>

<p>and for math i got a 770 when i was expecting an 800 cuz i knew how to do each problem</p>

<p>as for writing i got a 760 with 74 mc and 10 essay but i thought i missed 0-1 questions so thats pretty suspicious too</p>

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<p>huh maybe careless mistake (especially in math?)...i thought i was gonna get perfects on last 2 psats and didnt...</p>

<p>i got 660 on cr too and i tought i got 700+...maybe i didnt account for some errors</p>

<p>you can always handgrade..its 50 bucks but if you think its worth it go ahead, this is more than 50 bucks thats at stake</p>

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<p>I think I'll stick with the ACT for now on....I'll probably do another SAT in like September.</p>

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<p>It's a long grueling test. You might feel a sense of exultation after completing it but you can never be too sure. In the heat of battle you make mistakes that can cost you lots of points even if you think its easy. (I was 100% sure I got an 800 in math, but someone pointed out to me an "easy" question I misread and got -1. If he never told me I would have suspected nefarious activities by the Collegeboard)</p>

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<p>You're similar to me. I got 650CR, 770M, 770W. But I thought I had only got 5-6 CR questions wrong, not nearly enough to warrant a 650.</p>

<p>I'm going to assume I actually did miss more questions, and not blame the CB for grading.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I suppose I probably just made some mistakes on the passages. In past tests, I never got anything wrong on the passages, always vocabulary questions, which led to my suspicions. But there is no way in hell I'm paying $50 for hand-grading!</p>

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<p>i definitely erased a lot on this one. is there any possibility that the machine misread the erase marks as answers and marked them wrong?</p>

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<p>What is that link for?</p>

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<p>you complain because you excelled.</p>

<p>cool.</p>

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<p>Hmm... I thought my score was on the low side too. Does anyone else have this problem?</p>

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<p>There might be a problem if you thought you were getting 700+ but got a 500. But if it's only 50-100 point different you probably overestimated your score.</p>