Bellshaped SAT curve is hard for January 2010 due to less number of people taking it

<p>Please correct if I am wrong here. Based on the statistics (I am sure that they use some sort of student t type of calculations to obtain the cut off scores). If more number of people taking it, then the curve will be lot smoother and less ragged. For example, JUNE curve.</p>

<p>You’re wrong. The SAT is curved before people take it - the questions are normalized across all sittings of the test, so that January’s test can be compared to May’s test. The number of people taking the test on a particular day is irrelevant.</p>

<p>Thanks for clearing that up Chedva. I have enough to worry about learning the actual content to be worried about a low score for other reasons.</p>