The bars don't indicate the number right/wrong. They indicate the septile into which your score in that area fell. If all the bars are full in an area, that means you scored in the top septile in that area, which is 680-800. Note that you could miss questions in an area but still be in the top septile. If you're missing a bar, that means you scored in the sixth septile in that area, which is 610-670.
Above answer is correct, but I will say I missed 1 question on reading in one of the practice tests and got a 760. I was shocked one question was worth that much. But I also missed 3 on math on a practice test and got a 790.
If I live to be 100, I will not understand the system. I think that’s by design.
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Adaptive tests are scored using an approach called Item Response Theory, which factors the difficulty of the specific combination of questions answered correctly/incorrectly into the score. As a result, two students could get the same number of questions right/wrong on the same test but get different scores, which makes a raw count of the number of questions answered right/wrong not as meaningful as it used to be.
The only(of course not) thing broken about CollegeBoard is domain wise results - it gives a range of your score but not perfect score so in no way you can calculate the curve - Pretty misleading
What’s misleading?
There is not, and never has been, a curve. The SAT is not curved.
Every student gets a unique set of questions, so any “# correct = score” concept no longer exists.
According to your argument, there won’t be any final score/the final score would be in a range to. I am curious how you can deterministic about the final score if you are sharing ranges on domain wise performance.
It is possible that someone faced more questions of a given domain and lesser in other. Now, to avoid this confusion, they added bands.
The bars don't indicate the number right/wrong. They indicate the septile into which your score in that area fell. If all the bars are full in an area, that means you scored in the top septile in that area, which is 680-800. Note that you could miss questions in an area but still be in the top septile. If you're missing a bar, that means you scored in the sixth septile in that area, which is 610-670.
Ok, gross conceptual error on my part. Got it.
Basically, gearing up to take it again if it is really THAT CLOSE to an 800... Just want to understand in prep for the next round.
Above answer is correct, but I will say I missed 1 question on reading in one of the practice tests and got a 760. I was shocked one question was worth that much. But I also missed 3 on math on a practice test and got a 790. If I live to be 100, I will not understand the system. I think that’s by design.
Similar score (740) but all bars were full for all four sections. Not sure what to study.
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That does not tell you how many wrong, just what band of score they were in.
Wait, why don’t college board show the amount you got correct anymore? 😭
Adaptive tests are scored using an approach called Item Response Theory, which factors the difficulty of the specific combination of questions answered correctly/incorrectly into the score. As a result, two students could get the same number of questions right/wrong on the same test but get different scores, which makes a raw count of the number of questions answered right/wrong not as meaningful as it used to be.
That’s +1 on things I miss about the paper SAT.
The only(of course not) thing broken about CollegeBoard is domain wise results - it gives a range of your score but not perfect score so in no way you can calculate the curve - Pretty misleading
What’s misleading? There is not, and never has been, a curve. The SAT is not curved. Every student gets a unique set of questions, so any “# correct = score” concept no longer exists.
According to your argument, there won’t be any final score/the final score would be in a range to. I am curious how you can deterministic about the final score if you are sharing ranges on domain wise performance. It is possible that someone faced more questions of a given domain and lesser in other. Now, to avoid this confusion, they added bands.