<p>Hey everyone. I'm currently a senior about ready to graduate, and i'm taking the SAT this up coming Saturday in order to see if I can Bright Futures ( which is a grant given to students in FL if they meet certain requirements such as a 1170 reading/math SAT score).</p>
<p>I'm just 20 SAT points away from getting bright futures , and by taking several practice tests my reading and math scores have gone up by 20 points each.So today i logged into college board to check my December SAT scores and see what exactly i have to study and i found out that my raw SAT score for critical reading was a 45.5 and i got scored a 580.( i got 49 correct 14 incorrect)</p>
<p>I thought it was strange since in my practice book it tells you a 45/46 will get you a 600 SAT score. So i messaged my friend who got a 600 sat critical reading score and she got a 45.75 ( she had 50 correct 17 incorrect) and some how got a 600. I am so confused and I'm wondering how how come my friend jumps 20 points by just getting .25 more on her SAT score? So my question is it worth spending $55 for a hand score verification from college board or i just shouldn't bother?</p>
<p>The hand score verification probably wouldn’t help you. What hand scoring does is makes sure that it was marked correctly- verifying that you did indeed get a 45.5 and there was no malfunction. As for the practice book’s grading scale, it is an approximation, the scale is slightly different every time the test is administered- as you can see, the score you had was close, but not exactly equal to their approximation. While the 20 point jump may seem odd, it does happen sometimes for collegeboard to keep their curve the way they want it. The math section usually has 20 points off for the first 4-5 missed questions, it’s not always 10 points per question.</p>
<p>I echo what Belmom said, it isn’t worth it.</p>
<p>Don’t know if anyone is still on this thread, but just got June SAT results and they are IDENTICAL to March’s. Not “similar”, not “just like” – IDENTICAL down to subscores. Took a private SAT tutorial between March and June, made huge strides on diagnostics, felt great about these. Shocked with these results. Is it still not worth it? I’ve downloaded the forms, and other advisors are saying to request the verification, but $$$ out the window??</p>