<p>Hi.
On this June SAT I missed 7 questions on writing (8 essay) and got a 630. Seems pretty harsh, but anyway I just took a prac test and got the same # wrong :(
So a raw score of 41 but all the score conversion charts keep saying that the score is about 680-700? </p>
<p>Any good, accurate charts? Thank you</p>
<p>the chart is prob accurate, but the June SAT has a harsh curve. I was thinking the same thing when i took a practice writing test today and got 80 points higher. the chart is probably at least decently accurate.</p>
<p>Thanks! Do you know anything about the Oct curve?</p>
<p>June has the worse curve of all the SAT dates so it has to be better than the June SAT. I heard October has a decent curve but i heard December also has a decent curve. All im hoping for is that the curve is similar to my practice test scores! lol</p>
<p>Lol same here! Thanks :)</p>
<p>Was the writing curve really that harsh? I’m surprised with my surprisingly high score despite my average essay score.</p>
<p>Yeah 
what’d you get?</p>
<p>@joelax, Your score could have been high, but i bet it could have been higher if you had taken it on a different date.</p>
<p>@aares1: I got a 750 with an 8E. I know, right? 78/80 MC though.</p>
<p>@goldmind: I took the SAT in March and got a 640 (9E) on writing. I worked a few practice tests and really just tried to steadily work through every single problem; I think it paid off.</p>
<p>I don’t understand how the mc is calculated? There are only 49 questions…
I got 64/80, thanks I’ll keep working on it.</p>
<p>Nice job Joelax, that 78/80 would have been a 770-780 on a different test date. @aares1, the SAT takes the number you got correct and then does a bunch of calculations and then adds your writing score. The SAT is a standardized test so there has to be a top end and a bottom end of the bell curve. So in order for people to score big, some peoples scores drop because of high achievement on some test dates basically. ex. more 2400’s means there has to be more lowers scores to even out the distribution.</p>
<p>@aares, your raw writing score is</p>
<p>(Grammar score) + 2*(Essay score)</p>
<p>Therefore the maximum possible raw score is 49 + 2(12) = 73. The scaled score varies test by test.</p>
<p>@aares1 I’ve had a 39 8E raw score and had a 600 which was supposed to be about a 670 on kaplan or barrons use bb or princeton review and you will see the real curve your 630 is accurate <em>pretty harsh curve huh?</em></p>
<p>You can’t really just say that a certain number wrong would have gotten you a different score on a different day because losing a lot of points means the questions were easier on that test. The college board obviously tries to standardize scores with ability level, not number of questions right. My first test, I got a 760 math with one wrong.</p>