Son did well. 790 on math. 690 on Verbal. His weak point was the writing and language section, which was expected.
@barque I suggest you let her just mature. She still has plenty of learning to do. That’s a fine score for an 8th grader. Colleges will not accept a score taken from a test when the child is in middle school. The score for her verbal sections is 640. That’s not very different from her math score. I would do nothing right now.
In subscores section of reading and writing, I saw my daughter subscore like 13/15, 13/15, 13/15, 8/15 (standard english convention). is this part referring to grammar ? I am not sure if my daughter school teach grammar or not.
Still no score here for S. We are in PA and he says friends he took the test with got their scores yesterday.
Ha! My kid is a junior and she got 1310. We are ecstatic. 710 math 600 reading/writing. Her goal was 1300 so we are all good, but I can’t help think the 600 reading/writing could easily be bumped up 50 or so points with some study and xanax - just kidding. She is an awful test taker and the stress these tests cause really isn’t worth it.
for real. I actually paid for tutoring specifically for english conventions. She is a junior and I don’t recall any teacher since Kindergarten teaching conventions - interesting.
I just wonder if her english conventions will be improved gradually when she grow up and read more books or I need to buy some grammar book for her. She usually spend 10 to 30 minutes in reading daily.
@barque , start a new thread about your child and you can get more specific answers. This thread is about thoughts on the 3/10 test.
I am hearing a lot of feedback about this test now. Many kids did poorly, it seems. I know of a student who got 1480 on the December test, but 1310 on this one. I think it was a hard test, overall.
Can anyone verify if March test was same in both US and worldwide?
“I know of a student who got 1480 on the December test, but 1310 on this one.”
Did this particular student study the SAT at all between December and March?
Congratulations to your son for achieving
1570 score especially only got one wrong in writing . Can you share a little bit about how your son study the writing?
Sorry! May be go off topic again.
@StevenToCollege , yes, the student had a private math tutor for about 2 months, because that was the weak section on his Decmeber SAT. In this case, the student thought English and reading were very difficult for the March SAT.
My son already exhausted most of the official SAT practice tests prior to October 2017 sitting. So between October 2017 and March 2018, I had him practiced with UWorld. My son said the UWorld questions felt different and were harder than the real tests. He was scoring somewhere between 70-80% and even around 65% few times. When I asked him if the UWorld helped him at all, his response was a big fat NO and said that he only got lucky on the March 2018 test. So I really don’t know. I guess the key is to keep on practicing.
Interesting. My son took it in December. 710 on Math, 750 on EBRW.
He sat again for the March exam. 780 on Math, 710 on EBRW. His goal was to go up in math, which he did nicely. He was frustrated with the reading because he said there was one particular passage that was very difficult and he spent too much time on it and did not finish the section. Now he’s deciding whether to sit a third time, in May. I say just sick a fork in it. It’s done.
On the October 2017 test, my son basically made 6 out of 8 mistakes in Reading from one passage. Right after the March 2018 sitting, he told me that the Reading was so hard and he thought he screwed it up again. Well, I guess he interpreted the passage correctly this time, and that’s why he said he got lucky.
@StevenToCollege , that’s really interesting. My son scored 790 on math and 690 on verbal. He too said there was one particularly difficult reading passage. He is dyslexic and dysgraphic, and unsurprisingly, the English section was his weak point. He got four wrong in reading, and I think 9 wrong in English. He performed about exactly as I expected, but slightly better in English than I hoped, so I suspect he won’t retake for fear his Math score would go down (likely, right?) AND he might do even worse in English if he retakes. However, he will try the ACT in April, because he consisitently gets a nearly perfect score in both Reading and science.
For what it’s worth… my son managed a 1580 (780 Verbal, 800 Math). This was his first SAT, though he took one practice test on Khan Academy two months prior (scored 1580 on that as well). After the practice test, he spent an hour or so a week for the next two months working problems on Khan Academy. He used a scientific calculator.
His strategy, in short: plenty of hard work (all self-directed) and having the freedom, through his K-12 years, to educate himself as he wished.
He didn’t have any formal math education until age 18, when he started working with a math tutor friend and enrolled in community college. Prior to that, he was unschooled (freeform, unstructured homeschooling). His only “requirement” academically was to follow his curiosity. He was never drawn to numbers, was not a “mathy” kid. He didn’t learn his times tables, nor long division. If anything, we figured he’d be a writer. But he did spend countless hours building with LEGO and, as a tween, taught himself some computer programming, so maybe that was a bit of foreshadowing.
His first math class was Trig; he’s now in Calculus II. Yes, he’s bright but also learning disabled and he works very hard (lots of time in the math tutoring center, where he also voluntarily tutors classmates). Neither my husband nor myself got past Algebra II (and rarely put in more school time than necessary), so we do wonder where this kid came from! 
For those who are wondering why he took the SAT as a community college student: a few private colleges said they’d need a SAT/ACT score since his high school record is so unconventional. Very much hoping his score (along with his current 4.0 GPA) will help dispel any skepticism about his academic background. (If there are any admissions folks out there, I’d love to hear from you!)
And yes, I refer to the reading-writing part of the SAT as the “Verbal” part. Just like the good ol’ days!
Got essay score today, reading 6, analysis 6, writing 6.
Wondering how your son did? My son took it today and he thought it was easy. He is an ok student yet did not do well on the psat. And he did horrible (20) on the ACT he did zero prep and said it moved to fast and he wants to take it again. He walked out of the ACT saying he did horrible. Today he thinks he did great??? He had lots of English prep and thinks it was a pretty easy test overall. Wondering how it worked out for your son. My son scares me…
My son recieved 1480 on that SAT and is not retaking. He recieved 34 on the April ACT. Today’s SAT will be different from the others.