SAT ErROR BY THE COLLEGE BOARD?

Question

I recently took the sat test. My writing score came out to be 570. However, I got 37 multiple choice questions right, 10 multiple choice questions wrong and omitted 2 multiple choice questions. I also got a 9 on my essay. In the Official Sat Study Guide, I should have gotten a 660, why is my score off by 90 points? I can understand a score difference of 20-30 points at the maximum. Did the college board make a mistake? Can I do anything about it? Thank-you

Answer 1

the conversion chart isn't accurate because sll a conversion chart tells you how one group of students did that particular year.

Like a bell curve, there is a standard deviation and mass groupings. All the students who took this test are grouped into this curve on Jun 6 2008 and therefore, a conversion chart and percentiles can be calculated.

If you are absoluetely sure that you did better, get it rescored by verifying your score.

* WARNING: (LOL XD sounds like a drug label) This rescoring either may be adjusted higher, lower, or the same. Whatever the adjusted score may be, then that score is your final score

Answer 2

There is no mistake.

I got 8 wrong and omitted 3 and the rest were right.

My essay was 8

My total score was 590.

Your Raw score will be converted to a scale of  80 for the multiple choice questions.

Then there will be corresponding scaled scores on 800 depending on what you get on the essay

In my case my multiple choice scaled score was 59 and with an essay of 8 that came out to be 590.

You can expect yours to be around 55 and because your essay is higher than mine because of which you will get around 30-40 points higher in the conversion to get 570.

First convert your multiple choice raw score into the scaled score on 80 and multiply that by 10 to get an approximate scaled score on 800. You may then add 30-40 points on every point greater than 8 on the essay.