<p>When I checked my score on a practice exam, it said I got 1390. But, i noticed that they counted the number of questions I got correct out of ALL the questions possible, even the ones I left blank. I purposely left questions blank knowing how the scoring would (should) be, and they were counted against me.</p>
<p>Hi, I’ve been taking some Kaplan practice tests for the SAT,
and I’m not quite sure how the grading works.
Say I only got 3 wrong, but 22 right, what would be my score?
If anyone could please explain how the grading works,
it would be greatly appreciated :)</p>
<p>many people get confused because people say “questions you leave blank on the SAT don’t count against you”
this is both true and false.
for every question you answer correctly you get a point. in order to get a perfect score, you need to answer EVERY question correctly. no exceptions.
a question answered incorrectly will actually cause you to lose .25 of a point.
a question left blank neither earns nor loses points. you simply get 0 points for that question.
really, you have to think of it as starting at 0 and counting up to 2400, rather than starting at 2400 and losing points.
in the future, just remember that leaving a question blank and answering the others correctly does NOT mean you will still get a perfect score. mathematically, it’s better to guess even you can eliminate just one or two answers, because leaving it blank guarantees you will not earn a point for that question.</p>
<p>Cityylights, that is actually not true. It depends on the curve. A lot of the time you will be able to miss a question and still get a 2400.</p>
<p>Fastsauce is right that you can sometimes omit or even miss a question (or more, depending on the section) and still get an 800.</p>
<p>Citylights is right that omitted questions DO count against you; they just don’t earn you the additional penalty that a wrong answer gets you. So, a correct answer adds +1 to your score. A wrong answer adds -.25 to your score. An omitted answer adds +0 to your score.</p>
<p>Then, the raw scores are scaled. In other words, the SAT folks decide how hard or easy the test was, and then they associate each possible raw score with a score from 200-800.</p>
<p>Example: In the Critical Reading sections, there are 67 questions total. Looking at a sample curve from a test in the Collegeboard Blue Book, a raw score of 64-67 correlates with an 800. That means you can answer 64 right and omit 3, and still get a perfect score. Or, it means you can answer 65 right and answer 2 wrong, and still get a perfect score. (I’m actually not sure if they round up or down). If you omit 10 and answer everything else perfectly, you’ll get a 700. If you omit 20 and answer everything else perfectly, you’ll get a 610. If you omit 30 and answer everything else perfectly, you’ll get a 540. [This is just the curve for one particular test, however.]</p>
<p>Alaska55: We cannot answer your question unless you give us more information. What subject (math, CR or writing)? And, you need to give us the totals for all the sections for that subject. There is no subject that has only 25 questions. CR has 67, math has 54, and writing has 49+essay.</p>