S23 took the SAT for the first time on SAT school day in March; I wrote on another post:
My S took the SAT last month on school test day, and scored a 790 RW, 680 Math. He’d taken about 6 practice tests at that point since the fall, and had always scored above 730 on the math (his last several practice tests were typically 740-780 with the last one 790). But he walked out of the math test saying there were 5 questions about a concept he’d never heard of in his life. He made educated guesses, but didn’t have a great feeling about it. Opening the 680 he immediately said: I want to take it again.
He’s been doing some a little Kahn studying since then - maybe an hour or so a week - and took a SAT practice test this morning where he scored another 790 Math.
And now he’s saying that the more that he thinks about it, he wonders if there was a scoring error on his SAT. The concept he hadn’t heard of before he believes he made solid educated guesses on those questions, and the odds are he wouldn’t have gotten every question on that incorrect.
He typically would get 3-4 questions wrong on the Math portion of a practice test. Looking at his official score report from the college board this morning, it says he got 11 questions wrong on the Math. That just seems unlikely…?
He’s taking the SAT again next Saturday, and I guess we’ll wait to see what the score is on May 20th when the results are released. I suppose I’m wondering if it seems plausible that his first test had a scoring error, and if it’s worth the $55 to have it hand scored.
Thoughts?
