<p>whats a 2000 on the new sat approx equal to on the old 1600 scale</p>
<p>no one knows yet...but you can get a rough estimate by either :</p>
<p>a) dividing your score by 3 then multiplying by 2</p>
<p>b) adding math and critical reading scores together</p>
<p>I'm taking it. I'm strangely calm about this. Really, I've never gone this close to test day without freaking out and cramming like the world is going to end. I have taken a load of practice tests though.</p>
<p>according to PR a 2000 (new)= 1360-1400 (old)=31 (ACT) however PR is a bit off I've been told, and this may be closer to a 1400 than a 1360</p>
<p>wow *** y is it a lot higher</p>
<p>The way I see it, you just take your math and verbal scores and add them together. It's not like insane math or anything.</p>
<p>"The curve that I posted up there is actually the official curve for the March 12th test. The college board sent it out to some testing companies (princeton review) and others..."</p>
<p>Khalid889... Where did you get this information? I was under the impression that the scaled scores are not determined until after the test. If they did in fact already figure out the "curve"...then why would they give this information to test prep. places? Have they done this before? Once again...something about that seems odd...but correct me if I'm wrong.</p>
<p>yea it seems like a lot of Bull ****</p>
<p>What's the curve?</p>
<p>According to Khalid889, the curve that he (she?) listed in the post above is the "actual curve" which will be used on the March 12th test. I don't think that is right but I could be wrong.</p>
<p>Knowing that one can't work on sections of the SAT other than that on which one is currently working, I have the following, rather strange, question.</p>
<p>Is one allowed to write a short question, such as a sentence completion question, on one's hand, or other body parts, so that one could work on it later when the section is already over? Technically one would not be going back to another section this way, and the answer is easy to fill in or correct since all the sections of the answer sheet are immediately available. Also, to take this a step further, could one also rip off a piece of the test paper (I already learned that ripping off pieces of the test paper is not against the rules) on which to write these problems, and to work on them later? Is this against the rules in any way?</p>
<p>If they are not against the rules, I also thought of an ingenious way to take advantage of this...</p>
<p>Hmm...do they have some kind of rule book for the SATs? Or is it just more of a "that's morally wrong" kind of thing? Because the only things that I've heard are explicitly considered cheating are using a calc on the verbal sectons, or flipping back to other sections. Just wondering...</p>
<p>Funny you should mention using a calculator on the verbal section, because that is how I plan to take advantage of this loophole, if it exists, that is.</p>
<p>i don't think that loophole exists. the proctor should tell you to put away your calculators for the cr and writing section. seeing as how the sections are under a time limit for a reason, i wouldn't try it.</p>
<p>yeah, even if you go back to a verbal question during the math section and use the calculator, the proctor will probably notice if you do something as conspicuous as ripping a piece of the test; it would be obvious that you're cheating and even if its not written in the rulebook that you can't, it will probably raise alot of questions and trouble. But I dont know..it might just work. I wouldn't do it though..and the new SAT got rid of teh analogies so the only vocab questions are the sentence completions, which is like 5 per section and only the last couple of ones involve difficult vocab.</p>
<p>Most proctors will ask you to put your calculator away for the verbal section and writing section. Of course...if you have a proctor who doesn't I guess you can go forth with your plan. I don't think it will be very useful though, because as deus.ex.machina said you're not going to have much time.</p>
<p>i think he is just planning to use the calculator during the math section to look up words for a verbal section and fill in the answers later. That's why he was talking about ripping off parts of the test and writing questions on body parts.. I don't think it's a good idea thouhg.</p>
<p>you guys are all pussies def go for it man</p>
<p>Since I always finish the math sections early, this is what I think one could do.</p>
<p>Imagine, then, that there is a sentence completion question with difficult vocabulary. One leaves that question blank, rip off a piece of the test sheet (which is allowed), and writes down the question number, section number, and the problem and five choices. Then, during the next math section, after one has finished the math problems with time to spare, one whips out one's TI-89, runs that handy dictionary program that has over 9000 SAT words, and looks up all unknown words in the problem that one has written down, and easily finds the answer. Then, all one has to do is fill in the right bubble on the answer sheet.</p>
<p>Most of this procedure is quite inconspicuous. The only tell-tale parts are the ripping of the test sheet and the writing down of the problem on the ripped-off piece of paper. Since the former is allowed, it all depends on whether the latter is allowed as well.</p>
<p>I probably will not do it, since, as mentioned above, this is essentially useless for the new SAT. With the elimination of analogies, and with so few sentence completion questions, there is very little point to this practice. But if the old SAT was still in place, however, this may be a useful strategy/stratagem.</p>
<p>Newsflash:
In the CB Test book, in the practice tests, there is a cancel sign over a calculator picture on the top of every page of the non math sections.</p>
<p>Duality: No. You are allotted an amount of time per section. If you could go back and forth the scores would change because people at math would spend half as much time on the math and go back to other sections, and vice versa.
There is the letter of the law, and the spirit. In a sense, the letter is just the manifestation of the spirit. </p>
<p>I personally have about 5 minutes left at the end of every math section and a little less at the end of verbal. Math isnt really worth looking over if you have completed everything, but verbal is, if you circle questionable answers.</p>