<p>"I think that getting all the questions right equals a 680 now"</p>
<p>whats he talking about?</p>
<p>all Q's right + 0/6 on essay = around 680</p>
<p>I was just show how harsh the new curve is...</p>
<p>what do you mean?</p>
<p>For the writing section according to official guide practice test, if you get all MC's right, and bomb the essay with a 0/6 (ex. if you wrote about robots when you were supposed to address majority rule), then you should get around 680.
For the verbal, given the fewer number of questions, the curve could understandably be harsher. HOWEVER, all those people who memorized vocab for the SAT (including to some degree, ME!) did not have analogies to boost our score- given the greater emphasis on CR, we will miss MORE questions, and thus if enough people do worse on CR passages, the curve will be moderated or less harsh.</p>
<p>Hyper;</p>
<p>not sure that is correct....I thought I read somewhere that the new sAT essay is 1/3 of the Writing score, or ~233 out of the 800 points.</p>
<p>bluebayou- the essay is worth 1/3 of the raw points. But that doesn't mean that it's 1/3 of the total score. 2/3 of the raw points could potentially convert into anything, depending on how CB sets the curve. If Hyper's source is the official CB practice test, then I'll take his word for it that it's about 680.</p>
<p>got it, thanks for the correction.</p>