SAT raw score vs. scaled score?

RichInPitt
Sun, 08 Sep 2019 03:49:27 +0000

Are you suggesting CB made an error converting a raw score to a scaled score? Really?

Every test differs in terms of difficulty. Where you fit percentile-wise determines your score (roughly) through an equating process.

If they had added 4 more impossible questions that everyone got wrong, you would have 12 question wrong, but would be in the exact same position relative to other test takers and would receive the exact same scaled score. Would that make your score any more correct?

Tales of “harsh” or “hard” curves, suggesting that the exact same relative performance would yield a lower score, are just uninformed.