<p>Hey(: </p>
<p>I took the SAT in Jan this year and I got 2310 (750 CR, 770 W, 790 M). I was really shocked at my score (and super happy) because I had never gotten anywhere near 2300 in the practice tests I had done (in the official collegeboard book, Barron's etc.). I always got below 700 for writing, so my scores were around 2100 to 2200. </p>
<p>So was the actual SAT easier than the practice tests? Or was it just some fluke? </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Well, some tests are relatively easier. I’ve always made 36 on the ACT math except for one test, and on that same test I happened to have a friend jump from a 29 math to a 36 math (this was over two months of Pre-Cal, a review course, so I doubt he just gained a ton of math knowledge). It’s more about how the test plays to your skillset, how you feel on a particular day, and how well you work under pressure (if you’re a great test-taker, you tend to do much better under the setting of an actual exam). No, it wasn’t a fluke, but you may do worse or even better on a different day given the exact same level of preparation and how well your mind works while testing on particular dates. Anyway, belated congratulations!</p>
<p>Unless you are taking a release test, the practice tests are all guesses, and you are not taking them under test conditions. SAT scores are pretty reliable. Probably wasn’t a fluke. Now you don’t have to take them again! :)</p>