@willynilly123 and @RHSclassof16 did you both get 7 for the parallel question we were discussing?
@khaos360 I got 7.
Yup it’s 7
@khaos360 – I don’t really know. I guess the main points that I’m trying to make are that the variation in the curve from test to test is not all that large (therefore, the Panda SAT Score Calculator is going to be as accurate as anything at this point in time), and that there’s really no accurate guessing (again, at this point) how harsh or easy the curve is going to be.
An exception to the first point is that the curve has the greatest effect if you’re a high-scorer. Once you get down to the 650’s (ish) the curve has much less of an effect. However, in the upper echelons the same raw score can yield a score range of 30 points (like a 750 vs. a 780).
One thing that I have noticed is that over the last couple of years it is impossible to get an 800 in Math with anything less than a 54/54 raw score. The days of being able to get one wrong and still get an 800 are over. Recently one wrong has yielded a score of 770 +/- 10 points. Personally I think that anybody, no matter how smart, can easily get one wrong on any given test – i.e. it doesn’t really reflect any meaningful difference, but that 800 sure does look a lot different than a 770. . . Finally, free-associating: If you miss a grid-in math question it’s viewed as an ‘omit’, not a wrong answer.
I’m just wondering if the SAT is changing these questions for different people. Because I’m 100% the question said vertical line because I remember first thinking about something undefined when I read that. But maybe some peoples said horizontal.
@AsleepAtTheWheel totally agree with everything you mentioned.
@RHSclassof16 Are they allowed to do that? I mean we wouldn’t ever really know since they aren’t QAS. It seems that it does correlate that people answer 34/68 (1/2) answered 7 on the parallel question and people with 9/34 answering 7/3
It sucks though for me because in math the curve affects me a lot. I suck at the other 2 sections but one raw point in math for me can be the difference between getting 1900 or 2000 or not getting it.
@khaos360 I think they might. When I took it in December there was nowhere near this much dispute on the December forum over how questions were worded like this one.
@WillyNilly123 4 wrong and 8 on the essay would give you 680-690
Dang I probably missed 2 on the writing, which sucks because I’ve been getting better scores on practice tests… My mistakes were choosing “did theirs,” and I said that the tomato one had an error. Just hoping those were my only screw-ups…
@SimpleBio 3 wrong and 10?
What was the answer to the “built from” question?
I probably got 10 wrong and an 8 on the essay. That’s maybe 600.
Are there different essay topics? Mine wasn’t about art…
What tomato question and built from question?
There was a question near the beginning of the writing section where it said something about a girl buying books from 1st time authors cuz they’re more exciting? Underlined portion said something like “many of the most exciting books.” I was debating between that and one of the corrections “much of the more exciting books.” I left it as “many of the most exciting books”, is that correct?
@Willynilly123 I remember that I was deciding between those 2 on that question also, I did the original one because the 2nd one sounded too awkward
@Willynilly123 720-750
Who got the Blackcap bird migration to Britain passage? Was that the experimental?
@CEOSandeep Prob was, I didn’t get that.
@SimpleBio Ah, looks like my score’s not looking too good… 800 in math, missed 3 so far in CR, and I think I missed 3 in Writing, no idea about the essay, hopefully tech counts as a work of art and I can at least get a 9… Format was good, idk about the quality of my examples.