<p>This is my first time taking the SAT but my CR was a lot lower than the PSAT and all of the practice tests I have taken. It seems like everyone on here went down in CR and got much lower than usual.</p>
<p>Is it just me or is something wrong here?</p>
<p>If so, then the curve was readjusted to fit the lower scores. Collegeboard keeps SAT scores consistent even if Raw scores are generally lower.</p>
<p>Mine went down by 150 points from 730 to 580 from my last two practice tests.</p>
<p>D's friends who took the SAT again in March actually have the CR scores up. But the total scores went down from Jan test.</p>
<p>CR was the highest section of the test for me (60 higher than math, 100 higher than writing) so I don't know what everyone's talking about, especially as it's usually my worst area</p>
<p>CR was definitely challenging...went down 70 pts from psat, and around 100 pts from my practice tests...</p>
<p>OK... thank god it wasn't only me.. i went to more than 100 points form PSAT....again is it possible there was a mistake????</p>
<p>There is a headline on the SAT forum that says 4000 tests were scored wrong, so anything is possible, but I don't want to get my hopes up.</p>
<p>the 4000 scored wrong was from last year unless I'm reading wrong?</p>
<p>that was last year. I hope it happens again this year, just so that my abnormal CR score can get fixed ;)</p>
<p>My CR went down 10 from January.</p>
<p>I know that the headline is from last year, but what I'm saying is if it happened last year, then there is a possibility that it could happen this year.</p>
<p>I stayed about the same from the PSAT, but did MUCH better than the CB/ Princeton/ Kaplan tests predicted. I never broke 2000 on any of those tests and I was freaking out. I stunk even on the CR and Writing, and got a 720 CR and 800 Writing. So muuch for me trusting those.</p>
<p>The CR Vocab killed me -.-;</p>
<p>I got a 65 on CR soph PSAT, 70 junior PSAT, and 800 on March SAT (junior).</p>
<p>I don't know... it seemed really easy to me.</p>
<p>iin77: what books or other material did you use to prep for the CR section.</p>
<p>Hmm... reviewing didn't seem to help me any, but here's what I did:</p>
<p>-Read Barron's 2400 (I thought it was very helpful after I read it)
-Took PR 11 practice tests test: CR 670-710 (Barron's apparently wasn't helpful). I decided to not use their strategies...
-Read over all the prefixes, suffixes, and roots in Gruber's (a ten year old one my brother left at home).
-Wrote down the definitions of any new words I came across in my school reading, on CC, or whereever.
-Took another PR practice test: CR 800</p>
<p>March SAT: CR 800</p>
<p>I hope that's helpful... that's all I did for "prep", lol.</p>
<p>I'm still praying (however hopeless this case is) that CB made some error in the scoring.</p>