S.A.T. - Why can you make mistakes and still get a 1600?

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mcbiggins, my California high school is nothing like what you describe. Anti-socialist? Wha?

My US History textbooks stated that British troops in Canada invaded the US in response to US provocation/attacks/I don’t really remember right now. (My apologies if that didn’t happen - I’m going off memory here.)

Anyway…
One wrong and one blank for a 750 sounds like either there was a hard curve or you aren’t remembering it correctly. Probably the curve. On a November 1995 test, one could receive a raw score of 76 (perfect is 78) to recieve a 800 in math, and a raw score of 60 (perfect) to recieve a 800 in verbal. These scores vary according to curve and the number of questions of each type (verbal/math); on a November 1996 test, a 73/78 was required for a math 800 and 59/60 for a verbal 800. On a November 2002 test, I recieved a 800 verbal with two wrong and zero omitted for a raw score of 76. Raw scores include the number wrong plus the number wrong multiplied by 0.25 and finally rounded off at the end.

[DaveW]

Just out of curiosity, does anyone know if I could re-take the SATs, say, 19 years after I took 'em the first time around? It’s not like I’ve attended any college courses (yet).

My half-brother beat my score, dangit, so now I’ve gotta do something to get back in my dad’s good graces.

[Nightime]

I got a 1600 on the SAT despite missing one problem on the English section. I still think my answer was better than the official answer though.

[crinklebat]

I’m still bummed over weird SAT score-curving…I missed two verbals and got an 800, but missed only one math and got a 760. Hmm.

Heh, not like I’ll take it again, but I just don’t think that makes sense.

[RM_Mentock]

*Originally posted by mcbiggins *
Ah, I still remember the one question I left blank on my English section. How is a 17 year old supposed to know what “emuneration” is. I got home and it was nowhere to be found in any of the dictionaries in my home.

Looking around the web, it seems to be a form of remuneration, some even making it ®emuneration–which is how I would have attacked the SAT problem, finding which of the answers were related. On the net, there are a bunch of mispellings of enumeration, too–but no emuneration at dictionary.com

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