Can one predict one’s score on sat BIOLOGY test by knowing he/she made 7-10 mistakes ? I checked the tables on various web sites and generally a score of 750 needs raw score of 73 or so …or a score of 730 needs a raw score of 70. is that fairly accurate or does college board change the conversion tables each year based on how students performed ?
I am aware of the formula they use. Does formula stay the same ?
It’s roughly the same from test to test, but the CB does adjust as necessary.
My son got a 750 on the June test! It is 88 percentile. I am happy with this as he was not sure how he did . Is this score good to send to highly selective colleges?
@pearl0607 what class did your son take before taking the test? how did he prepare?
he was in honors biology in school and used barrons guide mostly… He took a couple of practice tests as well from college board book and princeton review
i would not recommend taking the sat bio test until you’ve completed taking AP biology. honors biology covers at best only a fraction of what is needed on the test. of course, unless you’re willing to self-study a significant amount of material outside of class. either way, june scores are out now, so i hope you did well if you took that test
@phractal what do you consider " well " .
Actually, it’s the other way around. The AP curriculum is standardized, and as a college-level class, covers the material in less breadth and more depth than a HS course. That said, there is no standard curriculum for honors biology, so one’s HS may or may not prepare adequately for the Subject Test. A common misconception on this site seems to be that one needs and AP science course to perform well on the corresponding Subject Test.
that is a very good point, so i would retract my own statement. it is simply from my own experience that a typical bio honors course is, in preparatory terms, lighthearted at best.
@pearl0607 a score i would consider to be good is not necessarily on par with your own standard. your standards could be higher than mine, considering you’ve taken the time to come here to ask about it. that said, a great score is generally higher than a 740, if you’re thinking about both national averages and college admissions.
Thank you @phractal . My son got 750 so guess he is good ! I read in a SAT thread folks seem to know how many mistakes they made based on their score. How do they know ? CB doesnt give details on SAT biology. Just a score .
I got ridiculous score 570 which does not make sense because I got a 3 on ap bio
Also I am top of my ib biology hl class
Wow that sucks. I was suprised that I got a 3 on bio… was honestly expecting atleast a 4. But ended up getting a 750 score on bio which is ehh, I was hoping for a higher score :/.
@pearl0607 from your son’s score of a 750, it would be highly reasonable to assume that very few mistakes were made at all. i myself got a 750 on the biology M test on the recent june test. during that test i left none blank, for there were no questions i was unsure of answering. however, i am certain that i got at least 2-3 wrong. those 2-3 questions, coupled with some unforeseeable mistakes elsewhere, can easily amount to around 4 or 5 questions that your son incorrectly answered. regardless, it is an excellent score and incredibly hard to improve upon, for it would require near-perfect performance on another test, taken months after the conclusion of any recent biology class.
@phractal congratulations! There seems to be a disconnect between AP and SAT subject test results. Another student I know got 4 on AP biology but says did poorly on SAT subject!
I also got a 750 on my SAT Biology however, I take Earth Science in school and self-prepped myself with Barrons, Princeton, and Kaplan in order to get a good score of 750.