SAT SCORING
Fewer people know how the College Board really derives an SAT score than
know whether or not the government has UFOs buried in a bunker in Nevada.
This information hovers in a cloud of confidentiality and “we’ll call you back”
messages. The College Board claims that this information is known only by a
few members of their statistics department and that no single person knows the
entire system. On one occasion, they even told us that we can’t call the
department that could explain this system because they don’t have a phone.
Come on. It’s the 21st century. We don’t buy that anymore.
Despite this veil of secrecy, by piecing different information together, we
were able to find out quite a bit about how the College Board takes the number
of questions you got right and translates them into a percentile and SAT score.
—Samantha
WHAT IS A RAW SCORE?
The raw score is a number based solely on how many questions you got right.
WHAT IS A PERCENTILE?