1、Scoring Your SAT Practice Test#8 Congratulations on completing an SAT practice test.To score your test,use these instructions and the conversion tables and answer key at the end of this document.Scores Overview The redesigned SAT will provide more information about your learning by reporting more sc
2、ores than ever before.Each of the redesigned assessments(SAT,PSAT/NMSQT,PSAT 10,and PSAT 8/9)will report test scores and cross-test scores on a common scale.Additionally,subscores will be reported to provide more diagnostic information to students,educators,and parents.For more details about scores,
3、visit sat.org/scores.The practice test you completed was written by the College Boards Assessment Design&Development team using the same processes and review standards used when writing the actual SAT.Everything from the layout of the page to the construction of the questions accurately refmects wha
4、t youll see on test day.How to Calculate Your Practice Test Scores GET SET UP Youll need the answer sheet that you bubbled in while taking the practice test.Youll also need the conversion tables and answer key at the end of this document.Using the answer key,count up your total correct answers for e
5、ach section.You may want to write the number of correct answers for each section at the bottom of that section in the answer key.Using your markedup answer key and the conversion tables,follow the directions to get all of your scores.GET SECTION AND TOTAL SCORES Your total score on the SAT practice
6、test is the sum of your Evidence-Based Reading and Writing Section score and your Math Section score.To get your total score,you will convert what we call the“raw score”for each sectionthe number of questions you got right in that sectioninto the“scaled score”for that section,then calculate the tota
7、l score.GET YOUR EVIDENCEBASED READING AND WRITING SECTION SCORE Calculate your SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing Section score(its on a scale of 200800)by fjrst determining your Reading Test score and your Writing and Language Test score.Heres how:Count the number of correct answers you got on
8、 Section 1(the Reading Test).There is no penalty for wrong answers.The number of correct answers is your raw score.Go to Raw Score Conversion Table 1:Section and Test Scores on page 7.Look in the“Raw Score”column for your raw score,and match it to the number in the“Reading Test Score”column.Do the s
9、ame with Section 2 to determine your Writing and Language Test score.Add your Reading Test score to your Writing and Language Test score.Multiply that number by 10.This is your Evidence-Based Reading and Writing Section score.EXAMPLE:Sofja answered 29 of the 52 questions correctly on the SAT Reading
10、 Test and 19 of the 44 questions correctly on the SAT Writing and Language Test.Using the table on page 7,she calculates that she received an SAT Reading Test score of 27 and an SAT Writing and Language Test score of 23.She adds 27 to 23(gets 50)and then multiplies by 10 to determine her SAT Evidenc
11、eBased Reading and Writing Section score of 500.GET YOUR MATH SECTION SCORE Calculate your SAT Math Section score(its on a scale of 200800).Count the number of correct answers you got on Section 3(Math Test No Calculator)and Section 4(Math Test Calculator).There is no penalty for wrong answers.Add t
12、he number of correct answers you got on Section 3(Math Test No Calculator)and Section 4(Math Test Calculator).Use Raw Score Conversion Table 1:Section and Test Scores to turn your raw score into your Math Section score.GET YOUR TOTAL SCORE Add your Evidence-Based Reading and Writing Section score to
13、 your Math Section score.The result is your total score on the SAT Practice Test,on a scale of 4001600.GET SUBSCORES Subscores provide more detailed information about your strengths in specifjc areas within literacy and math.They are reported on a scale of 115.HEART OF ALGEBRA The Heart of Algebra s
14、ubscore is based on questions from the Math Test that focus on linear equations and inequalities.Add up your total correct answers from the following set of questions:Math Test No Calculator:Questions 12;56;10;13;1819 Math Test Calculator:Questions 1;4;67;12;2021;25;27;3233 Your total correct answer
15、s from all of these questions is your raw score.Use Raw Score Conversion Table 2:Subscores on page 8 to determine your Heart of Algebra subscore.PROBLEM SOLVING AND DATA ANALYSIS The Problem Solving and Data Analysis subscore is based on questions from the Math Test that focus on quantitative reason
16、ing,the interpretation and synthesis of data,and solving problems in rich and varied contexts.Add up your total correct answers from the following set of questions:Math Test No Calculator:No Questions Math Test Calculator:Questions 23;1011;1518;22;24;26;2829;31;34;3738 Your total correct answers from all of these questions is your raw score.Use Raw Score Conversion Table 2:Subscores to determine your Problem Solving and Data Analysis subscore.PASSPORT TO ADVANCED MATH The Passport to Advanced Ma
