<p>How difficult would it be to score a 600 composite, exactly 200 on each section?</p>
<p>Would one need to be so good to be so bad, i.e., only someone capable of pulling a 2400 could pull a 600?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>They would need to know the right answer to most questions in order to choose the wrong answer.</p>
<p>I had a history teacher in high school that said he’d give us a 100% on any test on which we could get every single question wrong. Get one right, and that would be your score. Nobody ever had the guts to try it, at least not while I was around.</p>
<p>If you’re thinking what I think you’re thinking, It’d be wisest to just shoot for the 2400.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s so hard to get the lowest possible on SAT: choice a wrong answer for the ones you are sure of the right answer, and leave blank for the ones you are not sure.</p>
<p>Hmm, do you need to get every one wrong to get a 200?</p>
<p>for what i know, just by the fact you present at the day of the test and answer the exam, you will get automatically 250 in each section</p>
<p>^That’s not true, that’s what 200 points is for. And if you left them blank…you’d get 1/4 of a point for each blank one, so nope, you’d need to answer everything incorrect. </p>
<p>But there’s a grade curve, so even if you got things wrong, you couldn’t get a 600, :D</p>
<p>[SAT</a> : Getting the lowest score possible](<a href=“http://www.colinfahey.com/sat/sat_en.html]SAT”>http://www.colinfahey.com/sat/sat_en.html)</p>
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No. Just as most people could eliminate one choice as obviously wrong in every problem, most people could select the most obvious wrong answer, without knowing the right one.</p>
<p>This is an amusing tread. My son got a perfect 36.0 on the ACT his first attempt, which he took late in June of sophomore year. His school, however, REQUIRES him to retake the ACT, as part of the Illinois PSAE, during this, his 3rd year, before he can graduate. The test will be taken in mid-April, after his college acceptances are in (he’s a 3-year graduate). </p>
<p>We have suggested to his counselor that it might be fun to try for a perfect low score to complement the perfect high score, since COMPLETION of the test is the only requirement; the counselor was not amused, since the class average test results reflect on the school’s teaching performance ratings.</p>
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<p>Sometime, the curve is so lenient that a 200 isn’t even there.</p>
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<p>Please let us know if you decide to do this!</p>
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<p>Nah, we can’t do it to his counselor – who wrote my son a “one of the best students of my career” recommendation, nor to his school, which has been exceptionally accommodating. Nevertheless, it’s fun to contemplate!</p>
<p>What is hard to do is obtain the lowest raw score possible, which on math is -11: you have to get every multiple choice question wrong.</p>
<p>@pi: the lowest scaled score (for the SAT, 200) is roughly mapped to the “by-chance” raw score (for the SAT, 0), and scores below are truncated to the lowest scaled score. A score of 200 is always there, as well as 800, even in the cases when the equating process resulted in a perfect raw score mapping to a score less than 800 (this happened before the 1994 scale change).</p>
<p>for a 200, if you need a raw score of 0, wont omitting everything get you a 0? and by getting questions wrong with none right will get you into the negatives?</p>
<p>^For a 200, you need a negative raw score most (if not all) of the time.</p>
<p>Last year there were 382 scores of 2400. There were 147 scores of 600.</p>
<p><a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/sat-percentile-ranks-composite-cr-m-w-2010.pdf[/url]”>http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/sat-percentile-ranks-composite-cr-m-w-2010.pdf</a></p>