<p>@ aluminum boat
I think thatd get u a 680 or 690
How bot mine
math -0
Cr -12
Writing -5. 11 essay</p>
<p>^ Math: 800
CR: 630 - 650?
Writing: 730ish?</p>
<p>what about me?
math -0
writing -1 essay 11 maybe 12
cr -18~20 (lol) i suck at it</p>
<p>I think I’m looking at a 780 Math, 700 CR, 740 Writing (with 12 essay :D)</p>
<p>M -1
CR -6 (conservative)
W 12 E -4 MC</p>
<p>Just wait the 19 days people</p>
<p>Just so you guys know</p>
<p>Collegeboard determines the curve before administering the test. They decide how hard it is through testing beforehand. So if all 1.5million test takers are lucky enough to know a good amount of questions and collegeboard determined it to be hard, then the average score will skyrocket (probably won’t happen haha but still).</p>
<p>So when you see your friends who say “ahh that was so easy,” don’t worry about it under your breath as if he’s pulling your score down.</p>
<p>^No, the curve is not determined ahead of time. If that were the case, ETS/CB could simply arrange for each test to have the same curve every time, which would be convenient for everyone (no more “what would I get with 3 wrong” questions). In reality, the curves vary from one month to the next, sometimes fairly significantly, because the tests do vary somewhat in difficulty. The difficulty is determined by the test takers performance on the experimental sections.</p>
<p>Also, with a fixed/predetermined curve, tests could be graded on the spot (for a fee, I would be sure :)).</p>
<p>See [this</a> CB white paper on scoring](<a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools) for all the gory details of how raw scores are converted to scaled scores.</p>
<p>wow are you guys kidding me? -1 for 790 in CR!?</p>
<p>Even the easiest CR sections have -3 for 800.</p>
<p>And -2 for 740??? I know math wasn’ that easy. The easiest math sections have -2 for 750-760.</p>
<p>I think -1 = 800 for math this time around is just wishful thinking</p>
<p>obviously. But even -2 for 740 is a bit extreme!</p>
<p>Yeah I think -2 will probably a 750 or 760</p>
<p>from test to test, how much can a scale really deviate - ten points per raw score? It certainly can’t be more than twenty, and probably not usually that much?</p>
<p>yet i realize ten points is kind of a big difference - especially between say, 690 and 700</p>
<p>For the whole pre-determined curve argument thing, what’s the point of having a curve if you already know how people are going to do? Couldn’t they just take some hard questions out and throw in some easy ones?</p>
<p>welll these SAT passages have been previously tested by the experimental sections so…</p>
<p>and i have seen brutal math curves where -1=760 and -2=730… it seems that collegeboard likes to stay within a range for released exams and go wild for unreleased exam curves.</p>
<p>released and unreleased exams???</p>
<p>I have no idea how the scoring on the SAT actually works, but based on what I’ve read…
A person can still get a perfect RAW SCORE if he or she misses two multiple choice questions (regardless of section). If a person missed two multiple choice questions, he or she would be deducted half a point from his or her RAW SCORE, and since decimal raw scores are rounded to the nearest whole number, missing two MC questions would still constitute getting a perfect raw score.</p>
<p>For instance, if a person missed two CR MC questions, and the perfect raw score was a 67, that person would have a raw score of 66.5, thus, since decimals are not used and are rounded to the nearest whole number, that person would still get a 67 raw score.</p>
<p>Am I right, or am I missing something?</p>
<p>^ you are missing the fact that its 1.25 off your raw score for every wrong answer, and 1 point off for every omitted answer. For every answer you get wrong, you get an ADDITIONAL 0.25 taken away from your raw score, so that means if you get two wrong on CR then your raw score would be</p>
<p>67 - 2 - 2(0.25) = 64.5</p>
<p>or simply</p>
<p>67 - 2(1.25) = 64.5</p>
<p>Thanks for clarifying that for me.
I guess I’m off to hit the books again.
Dang it.</p>
<p>Soo, as you’ve probably figured out, I believe I missed only two questions on the CR section.
Is it still possible for me to get an 800?
Or will my score be somewhere in the 760-790 range?</p>