<p>75% of the people I know have higher SAT scores than their ACT-SAT equivalents. Is this the case for any of you, I'm just curious on the matter because I scored a 1480 on the SAT and a 27 on the ACT (which is equivalent to like a 1200-something, meanwhile I took the SAT twice and got 1460 and 1480). </p>
<p>Please post all your SAT 1 scores and all your ACT scores</p>
<p>1560 / 35</p>
<p>Corresponds exactly to
<a href="http://www.collegeboard.com/sat/cbsenior/html/stat00f.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.collegeboard.com/sat/cbsenior/html/stat00f.html</a></p>
<p>I got 1310 SAT/32 ACTs</p>
<p>I got 1510 / 34 which matches the chart.</p>
<p>the conversion chart doesn't mean that if you got a 27 on the ACT that you would get a 1220 on the SAT, or any other score-to-score conversion. What it is useful for is to say, well, I got a 1480, a score that puts me on about the same level (percentile-wise) as someone who got a 33 on the ACT.</p>
<p>Sometimes the conversions predict what a single person would get on the other test, but that's not what the table is designed for. Remember that the ACT and the SAT are very different tests.</p>
<p>Actually, the conversion chart IS meant to measure roughly equivalent scores, not percentiles. For example, a 26 ACT is 90th percentile and corresponds to an 1170-1200 SAT (about 76th percentile). Many school districts require everyone to take the ACT, so a given SAT-ACT combination will result in a higher ACT percentile. It also depends on what you're good at - the ACT tests more science and grammar, while the SAT emphasizes vocabulary and analogies.</p>
<p>1540/34...</p>
<p>1500/34, corresponds pretty close (i think 34=1520)</p>
<p>I think ETS unfavorably downgrades the ACT scores so it can make more money on the SAT.</p>
<p>Actually, the conversion charts you find on-line are worthless. They are usually copies of a College Board percentile equivalency table that you will find on-line at its site. Apparently nobody ever reads the small print because the College Board says that it is based on scores from tests taken in 1994 and 1995. Even the College Board does not claim it has any accuracy today. Thus, it is completely outdated, particularly since the SAT has gone through recenterings since then that raised average scores. If you actually did a modern comparison, you would find that any particular ACT score is more akin to a higher SAT score than before. Today, depending on college: (a) some still use that table; (b) many do not bother to make any equivalency but instead evaluate the tests separately; (c) many creat their own equivalency tables using more modern data.</p>
<p>Mensa160, are you actually a member of Mensa? If you are can I ask why? What would be the advantage of joining? Or do you just like the latin word for table?</p>