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Understanding Your SAT Scores: Learning How to Read Your SAT Scores

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UNDERSTANDING YOUR SAT SCORES - Click through to our article about understanding your SAT scores. You probably have a basic understanding of how your SAT scores look now, especially when you take into consideration your percentile rank, but if you’re looking for some good hard numbers, here’s what you should know.

Understanding Your Scores - In addition to your scores, your SAT score reports also include percentiles and score ranges. Admissions staff use the percentiles and ranges to evaluate the scores because no single score can tell everything about how you performed on the test.

Sending Your Scores - You can order score reports to be sent to colleges and scholarship programs, in addition to the four reports that are included with your registration (as long as you specified by test day).

Understanding Your Score on the New SAT - About one month after administering the new SAT, the College Board posts individuals' scores on its Web site. For example, scores from the March 12th administration of the new SAT were made available online on April 11.

Understanding Your SAT and ACT Results: Decipher how well you did on the exam - SAT and ACT results can be as difficult as taking the tests themselves. But you don't have to be a statistician to make sense of your score; understanding how it was calculated will help you put the numbers into perspective.

Understanding Your SAT Score - Receiving Your Score You can usually expect to find your SAT scores online 2-3 weeks after your Test Day. The College Board offers a full listing of score availability dates.

Understanding the PSAT / NMSQT - So what exactly is it? The test itself is composed of three parts: a verbal section, a math section, and a writing skills section.

How is the PSAT/NMSQT Scored? - First, a raw score is computed. Students receive one point for each correct answer. For incorrect answers to multiple choice questions, a quarter (1/4) of a point is deducted. Nothing is deducted for unanswered questions or for incorrect questions to student-produced response (grid-in) questions.

Understanding your Score - One of the most common questions we get from students and parents is: "What does this score mean?"

Understanding State Variations in SAT scores - A few links for understanding state variations in SAT scores.

SAT/ACT Scores and College Admissions: How Much Iis Your Score Really Worth? - SAT and ACT scores do not determine college admission. That's the word from Marlyn McGrath Lewis, director of admissions for Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Understanding SAT Results - (PDF) Understanding PSAT/NMSQT Results ...What SAT Ranges Can You Expect?

Frequently Asked Questions About Your PSAT Scores - (PDF) You can also use your PSAT scores to set a goal for the SAT. ... Use your PSAT scores to estimate your SAT scores.

SAT* Scores - The SAT examination process does not end on test day. Getting back your SAT scores will be the first thing on your mind after you complete your examination, and the College Board works hard to make sure that the score reporting is accurate and speedy.

SAT Score - A good SAT score certainly increase your chances of admission in one of the better colleges of USA. However, a good score of SAT is not the 'only' criteria for admission.

Know the Score - This heading sounds like the title of a lame test-prep book. But you do need to know how the questions you get right and wrong impact your overall SAT score. Let’s say you take the new SAT.

Questions about SAT and Subject Tests Scores - Anything you would need to know about your SAT scores.

What do these SAT test scores mean? - The results of this year's Stanford Achievement Tests are in. Here is a summary of our understanding of what the test scores mean and how we use them

Mixed results for SAT Scores - Bucking a statewide trend, about half the schools in the western suburbs scored as well or better than they did last year on the reading and math portions of the SAT.

 

 

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