How many mistakes drop score to 790, 780, 770 on math SAT-I?

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<p>For the math section on the recent SAT-I what numbers of mistakes (or what raw scores) tend to correspond to 800, 790, 780, 770, 760 and 750? </p>

<p>The published conversion table of raw score to 200-800 scale excludes the high scores of 750+.</p>

<p><a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools;

<p>If you reply anecdotally, it would help to indicate the year of SAT-I administration. (If this gets a lot of replies, year and month would start allowing an exact historical reconstruction, but individual CC threads rarely get enough traffic for that). The test and the score cutoffs have changed over time. By math SAT I mean one of the three (formerly two) 800-point components of the general Verbal + Math aptitude test, not the SAT-II math subject test formerly known as the College Board Achievement Test in Mathematics.</p>

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<p>January 2009, 1 mistake was a 790. Often, you can’t get an 800 if you make any mistakes.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.erikthered.com/tutor/SAT-Released-Test-Curves.pdf[/url]”>http://www.erikthered.com/tutor/SAT-Released-Test-Curves.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>This should more than answer your question.</p>

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<p>This doc is a bit confusing. Given that raw scores are rounded to the nearest integer, in Jan 2010, how could anyone have got 790 or 780 on Math? Am I missing something?</p>

<p>Raw score: 54 == 800
Raw score: 53 == 770</p>

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<p>They couldn’t.</p>

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<p>Collegeboard gauges the difficulty of the test and makes a curve based on that. </p>

<p>In math, a high score of 800-750 can usually only be attained by making one or two mistakes total. 800 is almost always no mistakes, and 780 is usually one mistake.</p>