August 24 SAT

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine thought the math was very doable. I’m a little concerned now. Kid is in 11th grade, AP Calc BC and had over a 1400 last time (710 math), but everyone saying the math was hard makes me think kid got easier module only?

You have a math kid. My DC thought the math was easy. There was only one question he struggled with answering. He had a 760 on his last SAT in math. He is trying to get his English score up.

Mine also had a 710 BC Cal student and thought math was easy. Is trying to bring up math score.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine thought the math was very doable. I’m a little concerned now. Kid is in 11th grade, AP Calc BC and had over a 1400 last time (710 math), but everyone saying the math was hard makes me think kid got easier module only?

You have a math kid. My DC thought the math was easy. There was only one question he struggled with answering. He had a 760 on his last SAT in math. He is trying to get his English score up.

My kid has a math 790 and did not think the math was easy. There were a bunch of tricky problems.

On an actual SAT or a practice?

[Anonymous]

Not everyone gets the same set of questions.

[Anonymous]

Will the college board tell us the what percentage of students had certain score brackets. Have they told score distributions in past digital sat test?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine thought the math was very doable. I’m a little concerned now. Kid is in 11th grade, AP Calc BC and had over a 1400 last time (710 math), but everyone saying the math was hard makes me think kid got easier module only?

You have a math kid. My DC thought the math was easy. There was only one question he struggled with answering. He had a 760 on his last SAT in math. He is trying to get his English score up.

My kid has a math 790 and did not think the math was easy. There were a bunch of tricky problems.

On an actual SAT or a practice?

June SAT. Actual test. She didn't think it was easy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will the college board tell us the what percentage of students had certain score brackets. Have they told score distributions in past digital sat test?

College Board works in reverse. The percentiles for the entire school year's tests are usually published in September and are backward looking, based on the three previous years of tests. They are not actual percentiles based on one day's scores.

Besides, as mentioned, there are many, many sets of questions - not everyone gets the same set of questions on the same day, in the same school, and typically not even in the same room. So, the information you are really looking for is not make public, no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Will the college board tell us the what percentage of students had certain score brackets. Have they told score distributions in past digital sat test?

College Board works in reverse. The percentiles for the entire school year's tests are usually published in September and are backward looking, based on the three previous years of tests. They are not actual percentiles based on one day's scores.

Besides, as mentioned, there are many, many sets of questions - not everyone gets the same set of questions on the same day, in the same school, and typically not even in the same room. So, the information you are really looking for is not make public, no.

Thanks for the detailed answer!

[Anonymous]

Does the College Board in their score report breakdown say how many the student got wrong in each module or how many total wrong in each section: math and English?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does the College Board in their score report breakdown say how many the student got wrong in each module or how many total wrong in each section: math and English?

No, but they give you performance bars telling you where you performed well or not so well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine thought the math was very doable. I’m a little concerned now. Kid is in 11th grade, AP Calc BC and had over a 1400 last time (710 math), but everyone saying the math was hard makes me think kid got easier module only?

You have a math kid. My DC thought the math was easy. There was only one question he struggled with answering. He had a 760 on his last SAT in math. He is trying to get his English score up.

My kid has a math 790 and did not think the math was easy. There were a bunch of tricky problems.

As others said, not all kids got the same questions. Some students seemed to have gotten even trickier problems in M2.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine thought the math was very doable. I’m a little concerned now. Kid is in 11th grade, AP Calc BC and had over a 1400 last time (710 math), but everyone saying the math was hard makes me think kid got easier module only?

You have a math kid. My DC thought the math was easy. There was only one question he struggled with answering. He had a 760 on his last SAT in math. He is trying to get his English score up.

My kid has a math 790 and did not think the math was easy. There were a bunch of tricky problems.

As others said, not all kids got the same questions. Some students seemed to have gotten even trickier problems in M2.

Interesting. And it gives me hope. DD came home dejected and said the math was hard. However she found the english easy. 7

[Anonymous]

If the tests that the kids take do not have the same exact questions but come from a larger pool where presumably the questions will vary in difficulty, then is equating also done for tests on the same day?

I always hear about equating used for tests across different days, but what about the variance in difficulty of same-day tests?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was reading r/sat and it seems that more students who had taken the last few dsats found March and August Sats more difficult than May and June? Do the scores reflect accordingly? How exactly does "equating" scores work? Isn't it supposed to adjust for differences in difficulty among versions of the SAT taken on different months?

Yeah 1 wrong on an easier test could land you at 770, 1 wrong on the hardest could still be an 800.

It’s such a gamble. Hoping my kid will do better on the harder one since it is more forgiving.

So for the harder test, is it one wrong on a specific question, or as long as one gets one wrong on any of the M2 module on the harder one, it could still be 800?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was reading r/sat and it seems that more students who had taken the last few dsats found March and August Sats more difficult than May and June? Do the scores reflect accordingly? How exactly does "equating" scores work? Isn't it supposed to adjust for differences in difficulty among versions of the SAT taken on different months?

Yeah 1 wrong on an easier test could land you at 770, 1 wrong on the hardest could still be an 800.

It’s such a gamble. Hoping my kid will do better on the harder one since it is more forgiving.

So for the harder test, is it one wrong on a specific question, or as long as one gets one wrong on any of the M2 module on the harder one, it could still be 800?

There is no way to know this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine thought the math was very doable. I’m a little concerned now. Kid is in 11th grade, AP Calc BC and had over a 1400 last time (710 math), but everyone saying the math was hard makes me think kid got easier module only?

You have a math kid. My DC thought the math was easy. There was only one question he struggled with answering. He had a 760 on his last SAT in math. He is trying to get his English score up.

My kid has a math 790 and did not think the math was easy. There were a bunch of tricky problems.

As others said, not all kids got the same questions. Some students seemed to have gotten even trickier problems in M2.

Ok, unless your kid took all the tests there is no way to know if one was "trickier" than the other. But let's say that this is true, harder questions might also have been "test questions" that don't count.