<p>“No. The test covers such a wide range that not everything is on every test. Right now if one person knows everything but Topic A, and another person knows everything but Topic B, both will get 800, regardless of the test they get. That is a fair and accurate way of deciding their score. If 1 wrong = 790, then their grades depend on the luck of what is on the test. If Topic A is on the test, but Topic B isn’t, one of them is screwed just because they got the wrong test. That would be unfair and arbitrary.”</p>
<p>That’s why colleges don’t really distinguish between a 750 and 760 on math level 2, 710 on the sat 1 math and a 730, or a 660 on the critical reading or a 640 or 630. There’s really not much difference between those scores, as you said.</p>
<p>But the scale on the math level 2 exam is way too big. There actually IS a pretty big difference between a raw score of 50 and a raw score of 43. I mean, if a college put a lot of emphasis on the math sat 2 for admissions, it would be helpful to know where the student got a 43 or a 50. Of course the college wouldn’t really differentiate between a 44 or a 43, but a 43 and a 50 is a big difference.</p>