My son felt that this SAT was relatively easy, especially the English section. He thought there was one difficult reading passage, and that math was not too difficult at all. Wondering how other students felt about it.
Hi @Lindagaf –
I’m copying what I posted on the 2019 Parents board:
My daughter took the SAT this am. It was her first attempt. We are really hoping one and done, but she is not a fantastic standardized test taker (good, but not fantastic). She did say that she felt the math and grammar sections were rather easy today, although the reading sections were slightly more difficult. We shall see. I did sign her up for the April ACT, which I am beginning to think is more her speed.
Fingers crossed for good scores for all!
My daughter said reading was easy, math was ok, reading was a little hard, essay wasn’t too bad. This was her first attempt.Also hoping for one and done.
My son said English, Math, and Essay were OK, but the Reading was brutal.
Along with feedback from my students, it seems that most people thought the reading was difficult. Thanks for the input.
Found the math to be incredibly easy, essay was just as expected…writing/language was fairly easy, and the reading was up and down
I was sick this morning and didn’t get to take it. Especially mad now, hearing that it was easy 
“Easy” can make for a harsh curve.
@hayisforhorse lol i did not think it was “easy” especially the reading because that section made me want to cry
It seems like that is always the assessment after SAT is taken the last year or so. Everything is “easy” except for some passages in the reading.
I do not know why … but I do not think reading is hard at all. I am usually bad at reading and supposedly I should be whining now if it was really that bad… XD But anyways, I feel like the Math Calculator section is harder than usual? (relatively comparing to previous tests) I think I may have missed one or two questions on math… I hope I can still get a perfect with the curve. On every single practice test I did, I scored 800. So this really triggered me as you can imagine. It looks like I did well on the section that I am not so good at but not so impressively well on the section that I am supposed to be good at.
There is a curve? :-o
Yes, SAT takes the number of questions you got correct (a raw score such as 42/44 on writing) and translates that combined with reading to scaled section score out of 800. Then the same with the two math sections. Usually, it’s ten points off for every wrong question, but because of the scale sometimes you can get two wrong and have a 790 or 4 wrong and have a 770, etc.
@dreamthief001 thanks for that.
I’m confused by Linusky’s comment (“I think I may have missed one or two questions on math… I hope I can still get a perfect with the curve”). Sounds like it’s possible to get a perfect score even if you don’t answer every question correctly? Maybe I’m not reading this correctly (likely, seeing that my only score on an SAT was 1050!).
for the reading I hope the curve is -10 is 40 lol but i know that’s never going to happen
@JeanJeanie Yes what I said was true. Since every SAT test cannot be exactly the same difficulty, so if you miss 2 on the harder test is equal to missing none on the easier test. And yes, you do not have to answer them all correctly… There were one test back in 2016, where missing 2 on math still gives you 800 and 4 gives you 790… That is why I hope this time the math part is harder than usual.
And also, @Lindagaf and @zipstermom what do you guys mean by easy? like getting 800 is a certain? Or do you mean relative to previous tests they are easy?
My daughter took it on March 10 and found the math impossible. She had gone to an SAT tutor and was doing very well on the practice tests. She got a 580 on math the first time and wanted to increase her score another 100+ points.
Unfortunately, when she got to the math section on this March 10, 2018 test, she flipped through and discovered she only knew how to solve ONE of the problems. Crazy!
She and her friends have been talking about this and they all feel the same way, even the kids who are math whizzes, like her friend who got a 690 on math last time.
I’m not sure what College Board did to the SAT math section this time, but kids who have prepped and kids who are good at math shouldn’t be confronted with a test full of questions they have no clue how to solve.
Thinking this test is going to have to be tremendously scaled…
My daughter took it on March 10 and found the math impossible. She had gone to an SAT tutor and was doing very well on the practice tests. She got a 580 on math the first time and wanted to increase her score another 100+ points.
Unfortunately, when she got to the math section on this March 10, 2018 test, she flipped through and discovered she only knew how to solve ONE of the problems. Crazy!
She and her friends have been talking about this and they all feel the same way, even the kids who are math whizzes, like her friend who got a 690 on math last time.
I’m not sure what College Board did to the SAT math section this time, but kids who have prepped and kids who are good at math shouldn’t be confronted with a test full of questions they have no clue how to solve.
Thinking this test is going to have to be tremendously scaled…
@Linusky , I would never claim that getting 800 on any section is easy, regardless of the kid taking the test. I’m simply saying my own son didn’t find the math difficult. He took the PSAT, had a tutor, and prepped. This was his first official SAT, he has no other test to compare to.