<p>Hey there</p>
<p>I've taken a SAT 1 practice test at sparknotes.com. My raw score is 48 correct out of 54, and yet, sparknotes gives me 760 for the maths section. How's that possible?! Isn't the actual curve much harsher?</p>
<p>thx</p>
<p>I took March SAT and I missed one math question
and got 760</p>
<p>Yes normally a 48/54 would be close to or less than 700. But this applies to actual SATs; the score you have from the Sparknotes test is an educated guess as to what you would get on the real thing.</p>
<p>so i assume the sparknotes test was intentionally designed to be harder than an actual SAT test</p>
<p>^Yes, that’s likely. Barron’s does this big time, although they generally use the same curve (raw-to-scaled score table), so many people score lower on Barron’s practice tests than on the real thing.</p>