will the new sat be easier?

Test Preparation
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when i say easier i dont mean easier for just a few people. i mean like will the average score go from a 1000/1600 to 1100/1600.

I took 2 practice sat tests based off the old system and scored a 1690 and a 1710. Then i took a practice test based off the new sat and scored an 1850.

here is the link to my score ivy.gl/19ly (not sure if it will work for you)

i noticed one thing however, if you count 0.25 points off for my wrong answers on my 1850 test my final score wouldve been a 1720 which is closer to what i had gotten earlier.

would the sat lower my score through a curve? Or are they going to accomodate for the penaltyless guessing system another way?

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No. The scores are normalized. That means that the scores are forced into a distribution. That means that the scores will always have a spread with a certain % at various intervals.It will be similar.

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This NYT article suggests the new SAT favors strong readers

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/09/us/sat-test-changes.html?hpw&rref=us&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

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but why did i go from a 1700 to an 1850?

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but why did i go from a 1700 to an 1850?

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I think the practice tests are too easy, and the PSAT was too easy… So the college board will probably make the real SAT in March harder, now that they have PSAT data to confirm that.

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@Crewcamel

You have a bad guessing strategy if you are losing that many points wrong answers. Since there is no penalty for guessing wrong on the new SAT, you should do better with the new format. Test takers who have developed better strategies for when to guess and when to omit should theoretically get similar scores on the two versions of the test, but you score may be better in relation to them on the new SAT. The difference is now the test takers that know the most correct answers will get the higher scores, good guessing strategies

The questions to ask is not will it be easier, but will the score distribution be the same as the old SAT, that is what lostaccount is saying. Undoubtedly some test takers, like my D, will like the new format better and feel it is easier to get to a higher percentile than the old SAT, but that does not make the test 'easier" since some tester will feel the opposite.

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First of all, that is a pretty ordinary amount of “wobble” for a student in that score range. Second, there are several reasons you might be better at the new format than the old one. In Reading, for instance, if you’re a fairly competent reader with poor SAT vocabulary, the new test works to your advantage. Similar differences play out in the other two sections.