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Thank you so much.</p>
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Wow, that is quite competitive.</p>
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I don’t understand. I thought the curves were going to be normal for January. o-o"</p>
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<p>Critical Reading: I usually finish with about ten minutes left. I then go back and compare all my bubbles to those in the packet to ensure that no mis-translations occurred. I spend the remaining time going over the couple questions that I was not completely sure about; I can usually spend about four minutes per question.</p>
<p>Math: I usually finish in slightly less than half the given time. Again, I go back and ensure that I correctly translated my selections onto the answer sheet. Then I go back and redo the couple that I marked as potential errors – those that perhaps had a lot of room for error in that many calculations were involved, or those that may have had tricks in the question. I spend any remaining time redoing the free-response questions.</p>
<p>Writing: I finish very quickly, then go back and check all the no-error questions and any that I marked as being difficult. I spend the remaining time on the improving paragraphs questions at the end.</p>
<p>1) So you just read through critical reading passages once in a smooth motion, then answer the questions the same with little or no hesitation? That’s the only way I could imagine that you finish the section with 10 minutes left with almost perfect accuracy.</p>
<p>2) For the vocabulary, do you do more recalling (remembering a word you had memorized which you would not know if you had not memorized it), reasoning (root words, suffixes, prefixes), or intuiting (knowing a word naturally because of experience)? Which ability do you rely on in correctly answering the most difficult problems?</p>
<p>how is -2 on the writing a 75 for the multiple choice? since it’s out of 80, shouldn’t it be 78?</p>
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<p>The scaled score, which takes the curve into account, is out of 80. The raw score, which takes the # of questions missed into account, is out of 49 because there are a total of 49 writing multiple choice questions.</p>
<p>A -2 would mean a 47 raw score and a 75-77 scaled score (it depends on the curve).</p>
<p>D is a Junior and has taken the SAT twice. First in October 09 and again in Jan. She was disappointed with Jan results. Between the two she prepped 10-15 hours in Math for an 80 point gain. She’s in AP Language and Honors Trig this term and was our school’s only state writing graduation test perfect score - out of class of 700+.</p>
<p>Can she improve to 2300ish and if so, how many hours of prep do you believe it will take? A teacher told her class it takes an hour/point, which is completely overwhelming and at her score range at least, not accurate.</p>
<p>Oct 09: W-750 (9E), R-730, M-600
Jan 10: W-770 (10E), R-720, M-680</p>
<p>Maths: -4 = 710
CR: -12 = 650
Writing: -4 with 11 essay = 740, sub-score: 71</p>
<p>Wooo!</p>
<p>Math: 770 (-1)
CR: 680 (-7)
Writing: 710 (-1, 6 essay)</p>
<p>I seriously believe that there’s a mistake occurred in generating the CR curve this time. How can one that has 12 wrong no omit get 650 and another with 9 wrong no omit hit 660? only 10 points gap between 3 questions?</p>
<p>Wait, an 800 on CR and M each is only the 97% percentile in Illinois? Or did you get a 790 on each section silverturtle? Sorry, never saw what you officially got.</p>
<p>Could we fill in the rest of the math curve at the top? I’ve seen -4, no omit = 710, and -3, 1 omit = 690; they can’t both be right. Thanks!</p>
<p>Math
-0 800
-1 770
-2 740
-3
-4
-5 680</p>
<p>I got -4 no omit 690. DUMB. I got an 800 on SAT 2 math WTH? I got 2 easy ?s wrong so ****ed.</p>
<p>A 2 essay…? Da f…?</p>
<p>Math
-0 800
-1 770
-2 740
-3 710
-4
-5 680</p>
<p>For Maths, -4 is 710. Not -3.</p>
<p>Nope… I got 3 wrong, 0 omit for math. It’s a 710… sadly.
math is always my strongest section but it killed me. I got 770 on both of the other sections but 710 in math…oh well</p>
<p>I have -4 in maths - it is 690.</p>
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<p>Ah, really? Didn’t know that. I wish they had given me the booklet for 09 December and not this one… :P</p>
<p>I’m not sure the basis for the SAT policy of sending a test booklet with the SAV service only for certain test dates–but it least it worked out just fine in your case, Alt_F4! We discovered the policy only by chance, as my daughter happened to take the October and January tests.</p>
<p>Knowing this now, I would advise first-time test takers to take the SAT in October or January of their junior year to give them the opportunity to review items they missed before taking it again.</p>
<p>I think the math chart can perhaps be summarized as follows:
Math
-0 800
-1 770
-2 740
-3 710
-4 690
-5 680 </p>
<p>I wonder if the discrepancy that doughboy noted (-4, no omit = 710) could be due to his missing one or two of the student-produced response questions, which would mean that he would not have received a 1/4-point additional deduction for those.</p>