November 2017 SAT Discussion Thread

evergreen5
Fri, 17 Nov 2017 20:43:58 +0000

That’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying that different administrations of the test have different levels of difficulty and therefore the same scaled score from different tests can apply to different numbers of questions wrong. This is commonly referred to as the curve, albeit not the same type of curve one might have in a classroom test situation because it is not based on the people who all took the test together, but based on some mystical research study of the questions involved.

Hang in there. The waiting may be excruciating but this too shall pass. The internet rumor is that another batch of scores is coming out at the top of the hour.