@3scoutsmom - congrats to your son (and to you too)!!! That’s an INCREDIBLE score! 1 or 2 wrong maybe?? Not braggy at all (not on this thread anyway) we’re all so happy to hear your good news.
Like others, we’ll take a look tomorrow and hopefully see some scores posted on college board.
Scores are up on CB. I think my DS did ok. Because I thought he would have done better based on his behavior when he came home, I’m now more concerned about PSAT.
Best of luck to all of your kids.
@cardinal2020mom do you mean the sat2 scores? Ugh, I’m going to need a cup of tea before I look at them…
The Oct 1 SAT scores. He was hoping to be one and done. He is not. Back to the drawing board. The boy thought he did great on it. His score does not reflect great, good but not great.
After the PSAT, he was stating it was harder than the SAT I now have concerns.
D’s scores are good but I can’t tell if they are good enough. Does anyone know where a reliable concordance table is, new versus old SAT scores? I’ve seen some but they do not agree with each other.
@suzy100 , it’s on the CB site. They have a score converter. Search for it on their search bar. Based on that, DS definitely needs to up his game.
Thank you @cardinal2020mom. I got some weird results after playing around with it. I converted to the old score, then back to the new score. When I converted back to the new score, it showed that Math+Reading was “x” when in fact, her Math + Reading - on the actual new test - was 40 points higher. Hmmmm.
Not the score D was looking for either. Only 1 wrong on the math section, but the reading section kicked her butt. She’s positive about it though; she’s already messaged me a few times saying that she really thought the test was easy and wonders what the heck happened. She also asked if she could sign-up to take it again.
Now, I’m also a little worried about the PSAT as she thought that was pretty easy as well !!!
I ordered that QAS report. I wonder how long it takes for that to come out so we can look at the answers to see what she might need further help on.
@LMHS73, from what I’m seeing the curve was very harsh on the Writing portion, and very generous on the Reading portion so if she missed more on the Writing, that might help you understand the score.
@suzy100 - just 2 Writing wrong. It’s the reading part that got her!
@LMHS73 the reading is tough because so many of the questions are paired. If you miss the first one, you’ll missed the second one too. For example if question #1 is pick the statement that reflects the author’s intent and Question #2 is which line from the passage best supports the author’s intent, if you got the intent wrong in the first place you’d certainly get the second question wrong too. I just hate these two part questions, they can tank a kid’s score quickly.
We are still in the process of tweaking son’s list and were wondering if schools that had a disproportionate number of females to males (i.e…UNC-Wilmington 39% M vs 61% F and College of Charleston 37% M vs 63% F), does create any sort of advantage for the boys applying? Actually, of all the schools on his current (fairly long) list, almost every school has a higher female population.
@LMHS73 We order that when we signed my son up for it. Will let you know as soon as we get it.
@VaNcBorder At some schools boys definitely have an admission advantage over girls. Although I expect this is more likely at the LACs than the public Us. The admissions section of the Common Data Set breaks out by gender the number of those who applied and those who were admitted.
@3scoutsmom - yes, it’s those “command of evidence” two part questions that really baffle her. Also the “words in context” seem to be a problem for her as well. Thank goodness that, even on this new test, math is still math! That’s her comfort zone, but 10 points deducted for 1 wrong answer - yikes!
@cardinal2020mom - thanks, I’ll post as well whenever we get the QAS report. Any idea when they’re supposed to come out?
D wants to take it again, so it would be nice to be able to see those wrong answers from this test first before she tests again. She asked about taking the Dec test, but since I have no idea when we’ll see the QAS report - I think it’s best to wait.
@LMHS73 I just called CB. If the QAS report was ordered when the kids signed up for the test they are mailed out 6-8 weeks after the test date. That’s not very helpful for the 12/2016 test. Why would I expect anything better? So at the earliest we will get it Nov 12, at latest Nov 26. Not giving kids much time to review and prepare. Ugh.
@3scoutsmom, Congratulations to your son! That’s an amazing score! So happy for you!!! Also, thank you for sharing those books.What are the practice tests that you mentioned? Are they the four practice tests that CB released?
Thanks @sonoran yes, and actually the CB has released 6 practice tests now (although one is the same as the last PSAT10) and you can find them on Khan.
Thank you @cardinal2020mom - that info is extremely helpful! That could work for us: wait until we get the report, then we’ll have time to go over her weak areas, and then take the Jan test. Now that I’m writing this, it sounds like a plan!
Anyone have any thoughts on an SAT tutor - good idea? / not so good idea? She hasn’t attended any SAT prep classes or anything, just studying (and I know she really does study) on her own. I time her on tests when she wants me to and I’m able to show her why questions were wrong on the reading/writing sections. Thank goodness she doesn’t need any help in the math, because I couldn’t help there!
She’s taken and gone over every college board practice test, so retaking them is useless as she already knows the passages and the answers. I’ve been reluctant to use non-college board materials before, but am now open to that as there isn’t any new material for her to see. Can anyone recommend any other study material you’ve seen that seems like it would be a good study tool? Specifically, good material that covers the Reading section?
I’m thinking right now that giving her my help isn’t really working. Maybe time for something new?
If your kids are struggling with the SAT make sure to give an ACT a try. I was struggling on the SAT practice tests and couldn’t raise my score above a 1500 but I tried a ACT practice test and got a 34 first try. I took 5 practice tests and reviewed all my incorrect answers before the test and ended up getting a 36 on my first real test! The ACT is more straightforward but there is less time per question, so it might benefit some kids more than others.