My kid said he didn't know one vocab word.

Anonymous wrote:My kid thought it wasn’t as hard as march. WS hoping for a hard test. Hard test = better curve = you can get more wrong. My kid’s theory is that he’ll always get a couple wrong in math and wants to hit a hard test where you can get 1-2 wrong and still get an 800.

The curve will be on Reddit once results are out

NP. The curves were on reddit when the SAT was on paper and all questions had the same weight/value. However, the questions on the digital SAT are weighted individually. It is not possible to crowd-source the curve on the digital test.

Can people write which state their kid took the test? And the test site (if it matters)?

Anonymous wrote:My kid thought it wasn’t as hard as march. WS hoping for a hard test. Hard test = better curve = you can get more wrong. My kid’s theory is that he’ll always get a couple wrong in math and wants to hit a hard test where you can get 1-2 wrong and still get an 800.

The curve will be on Reddit once results are out

Would you please explain this (bolded)?

Anonymous wrote:My kid thought it wasn’t as hard as march. WS hoping for a hard test. Hard test = better curve = you can get more wrong. My kid’s theory is that he’ll always get a couple wrong in math and wants to hit a hard test where you can get 1-2 wrong and still get an 800.

The curve will be on Reddit once results are out

If anyone knows where to find a link to a curve from an old test I'd be interested in that.

Are results out for this test September 5th? That's when the curve will be published?

My kid thought it wasn’t as hard as march. WS hoping for a hard test. Hard test = better curve = you can get more wrong. My kid’s theory is that he’ll always get a couple wrong in math and wants to hit a hard test where you can get 1-2 wrong and still get an 800.

The curve will be on Reddit once results are out

Anonymous wrote:My son said that both first modules were very easy - thinks he did not get any wrong on either reading/math - but the second modules were HARD. Hard vocabulary, hard math. Harder than the practice tests on bluebook (he's taken 5 or 6 full ones).

That's exactly what my son said.

Anonymous wrote:In our experience and those of a few friends' kids the sweet spot is to take it 3 times. My child improved to that point (1540) but then took it another 3 times with continual studying and never got the score up from there. Subsequent scores actually went down despite the further studying.

Yes, but with superscoring, you can still do better by randomly improving on one section or the other.

In our experience and those of a few friends' kids the sweet spot is to take it 3 times. My child improved to that point (1540) but then took it another 3 times with continual studying and never got the score up from there. Subsequent scores actually went down despite the further studying.

My son said that both first modules were very easy - thinks he did not get any wrong on either reading/math - but the second modules were HARD. Hard vocabulary, hard math. Harder than the practice tests on bluebook (he's taken 5 or 6 full ones).

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Anonymous wrote:DC's 4th time and said it was the worst. By far.

Your kid needs to give it a rest. Four times is ridiculous.

Says you. DC is already planning for a fifth and sixth.

+1 I probably used to think taking it more than three times was ridiculous, but here we are.

No, it’s still ridiculous. You’ve lost your mind.

No. Your child (or you) has decided to accept whatever best score s/he has made in 2-3 attempts. That's fine, perhaps, for your child. Others are trying to improve for whatever reason is unique to them. You have no idea what other students' individual situations are, and thus cannot make a blanket comment that multiple attemps - beyond your arbitrary number - are "ridiculous."

This. I am a believer now after a friend’s kid took the ACT 4x. No studying after the second time. Now has a 36 superscore but test 3 had a 36 reading and a 28 science and test four had a 20 reading and a 35 science. Taken one after the other. I am a believer now that sometimes it is absolutely luck (good or bad).

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh… i’m afraid to ask, but is it normal to not finish? My daughter had to quickly just guess a few answers on each section.

Yes. Very normal.

My daughter had to rush and fill in the last few questions too.

Question: if today's test really was harder, what does that mean for the scoring? In the practice exams, my kid's score was always -10 for each missed question....she'd get all right in the first module, 4 wrong in the second, and the score would be 760, for example. Is that uniform, or if this is "harder", if your kid gets the all right in the first module and 6 wrong in the second, could the score still be 760?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. Very normal.

I love you.

Awwwww... try to relax and tell her to put it behind her! She can always take it again.... and again...!

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Very normal.

I love you.