August 24 SAT

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

My ds called me on his way home and said they said he was cheating and told him to leave immediately and we would hear from college board later. I was shocked and confused.

Yes, he got me good.

He said the second section of math was much harder than the practice tests too.

[Anonymous]

My kid got a 700 in math last time and thought the second half of module 2 math was extremely hard. She didn’t even have time to finish and had to guess on the last few.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My junior took it for the first time yesterday.

He was scoring high 1400s to low 1500s on recent practices - Bluebooks.

He said Math II starting around question 16 was harder than anything he had seen on practices.

His prep was Khan, Bluebooks, Question Bank (did all of the medium and hards, tracked wrongs and re-did the wrongs every other until he had learned)

It's a 2 hr 20 min test so his plan is to take repeatedly until he feels he can't improve his score further. that's up to him entirely

Yesterday felt tough enough that he will be taking October. And he's signed up for November too though he can cancel that one.

History w/ my older kids tells me that max score comes summer after junior or fall senior.

This x100

I wish summer after junior/fall senior year would be DCs best test but I’m thinking that’ll be spring of junior year, because she does not feel good at all about this last one, especially the math (she found it very manageable and DC is not a math kid, so she’s sure she got the easier second module). I’m just glad she got through it given she was feeling ill due to a (non-contagious) medical issue and was just two weeks out from losing her grandfather so she didn’t finish her planned prep. This was her last attempt so she’s hoping for a super score with the English section, and she’ll decide on TO or not once scores come out.

[Anonymous]

The second half DD math got EASIER. She knew immediately that the first half must have been a disaster. Oh well. 2.5 GPA not really surprised.

[Anonymous]

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?

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not everyone gets the same set of problems. Difficulty will vary.

Difficulty is the same for everyone testing on the same day. Equating is done to normalize difficulty between test dates.

Equating should standardize. However, difficulty is NOT the same for everyone on test day because different students get different sets of questions. There will be differences in difficulty.

[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.

My dad thought the math was easy too. She thought the English got progressively harder because the test was adaptive.

[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 dad thought the math was easy too. She thought the English got progressively harder because the test was adaptive.

DD, not dad, stupid autocorrect

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Me: “How was it?”
DC: “Good”

End of conversation

Same.

[Anonymous]

If you get the harder modules say on the Math would you know like you at least got a 600?

[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 dad thought the math was easy too. She thought the English got progressively harder because the test was adaptive.

DD, not dad, stupid autocorrect

LOL. That statement might work for Kylie Jenner, but not for most of us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you get the harder modules say on the Math would you know like you at least got a 600?

Not necessarily.
Depends on how many you missed in module 1 and module two.

Getting everything right in module 1 and all wrong in module 2 does not translate to 600.

[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.

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