SAT

[Rypto]

I got a 2270 on my SAT! I'm so happy!!!

[Goalie]

Wow, nice.  I got a 29 on my ACT, which is about 1920 SAT.

[BFM_Hydra]

WOW! Nice score, Rypto!

[BFM_Edison]

How'd you do on the individual sections? I need to take it again once or twice to hit my full potential like you seem to have. Good job. I still say the 30 seconds I lost would have been enough to raise my essay score by two

[Rypto]

Hehe

I kinda messed up on the essay (a score of 10). My writing section was still 790 though. I got a 700 in Critical Reading and a 780 in Math.

I am planning on attending UC Davis (I know Jam teaches there  )

[BFM_Edison]

Pretty sure you can tell where I hope to go Just glad one of my recommendations will be from a former professor at Harvey Mudd

[BFM_MiG]

I got a 2270 on my SAT! I'm so happy!!!

i got a 1350  but im retaking my SENIOR SAT!  October 4! wish me luckies!!!!!! i need 'em bc i cant remember any iof the stuff need to dust of the old SAT prep book lol

[BFM_Edison]

Blah, we might as well make this the official SAT thread. I was looking in a practice book I got solely for writing (I dominated reading and can dominate Math this next time with no practice) and I looked at how they calculated the scores for it. I know that there is some difference between the projected raw score conversions, but the difference between this average (in the book) and my score was 50 points. I should have had a 680, not a 630 in Reading >.> That seems too large to me to be just variance.

[Rypto]

Edison, both Math and Writing are considered high scoring subjects in the views of ETS. Therefore, even one question correct/incorrect can make a huge difference. This is what they use to determine the 2300s from the 2400s. I had the same thing happen to me in Math. I only got 2 questions wrong and I ended up with a 740. The writing section also depends on the essay score. If you get all the multiple choice questions right, you can get a 10 on the essay and still get an 800.

[BFM_Edison]

What I mean is the variance between the overall average of the scales for the SAT test. I have an SAT practice book which gives a conversion table for the scoring system. So for my reading, I got a raw score of 40. For the general conversion to the 20-80 scale for the multiple choice, this would normally be roughly a range of 64-74. However, the conversion on my scores is a 64, which is a 4 point swing, which is fairly large in this part of the system. Furthermore, for the average conversion for the actual 200-800 score, a raw score of 40 and an essay score of 8 will typically achieve the range of 620-750, which has a mean of 685. However, the range that I was given was 590-670. That is a fairly large change in range. The mean of that range is what I got: 630. I could see having a variance of something like 20 or even 30, but 50-60 seems way too large of a variance to me.

Maybe I'll check my math sections more than two times this time. Then I'll get what I want: 800.

[·WídgêT·]

I got a 1620 on the PSAT, which is pretty good for me (520 for reading and writing, 570 math), but I know I can do better this year (I took them last year as a sophmore so they didn't really mean that much)

[BFM_Edison]

And the SAT is done. All that truly mattered to me was getting a 700 on the Reading (which would essentially only mean a 10 on the essay) and an 800 on the Math. If I do those two things, my highest scores for SAT will make a 2210.

[BFM_Edison]

Scores came out this morning (probably like an hour ago or so). I increased my Math score by 50 to 800 and my Writing score by 40 to 670, for an overall combined best score of 2180. All the studying I did was take two practice Writing portions without the essay

[BFM_Edison]

Writing went up to a 710, and I didn't even finish the second body paragraph of the essay (8/12) but got 73/80 on multiple choice. I don't know if I should be sad or happy, since it means I possibly could have gotten $40k if I hadn't been so academically unmotivated Freshmen year.

[Mith]

My gosh Rypto thats good!  I couldn't even hope to get that good of a score.  I take mine March 14th.  Do you have any good ways you study for it because I am a bit clueless right now lol.