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Can someone clarify how the sat curve is made. I heard before that it is made before the test. Does this mean they judge its difficulty and base the curve on how difficult CB thinks it is? Anyone care to clarify this stuff. Anyway to predict the curve for the jan 24 sat?

By Musefinity (Musefinity) on Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 04:38 pm: Edit

bump because I want to know

By Mychocopie (Mychocopie) on Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 04:45 pm: Edit

How many wrong to get a 650+?

By Kyle8744 (Kyle8744) on Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 04:47 pm: Edit

math or verbal? verbal always has a bigger curve.

By Aim78 (Aim78) on Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 05:04 pm: Edit

We won't know for sure until we get our scores. Must have patience.

By Kyle8744 (Kyle8744) on Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 05:10 pm: Edit

today is the day i get hypertension and high blood pressure which will last two weeks and end with either all symptoms spontaneously resolving or a myocardial infarction.

By Mychocopie (Mychocopie) on Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 05:17 pm: Edit

lol kyle i can appreciate that statement.

By Infinity (Infinity) on Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 05:21 pm: Edit

As can we all, I really hope it's a generous curve,the test was difficult. Sec 3 plz experimental lol!

By Kyle8744 (Kyle8744) on Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 05:27 pm: Edit

the sections are different for everyone i think. i think the experiment was at section 4 in my case.

By Desprateslacker (Desprateslacker) on Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 05:37 pm: Edit

still no body answered my question how is the scale made

By Kyle8744 (Kyle8744) on Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 05:38 pm: Edit

i think i read somewhere that they have some people take the test a while before it is given to students and they make the curve depending upon how this test group did.

By Desprateslacker (Desprateslacker) on Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 05:41 pm: Edit

really then why dont i hear stories about those people giving out answers and stuff

By Yugekorb (Yugekorb) on Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 05:50 pm: Edit

i think it is the experimental section that sets the mode for later, or is it this, sat. something like that

By Kyle8744 (Kyle8744) on Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 05:55 pm: Edit

slacker: because they probably have to sign a legal document and would get sued off their arse if they revealeed anything.

By Iamstupid (Iamstupid) on Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 09:56 pm: Edit

what if you ran out of the building while taking the sat and posted them online, could htey sue you for that?

By Andrew123s (Andrew123s) on Sunday, January 25, 2004 - 01:05 am: Edit

I'm pretty sure at least a good portion of new questions come from experimental sections on other SATs. They judge how difficult the quesitons are based on how well students do on these experimental sections of SATs.

By Jackiec (Jackiec) on Saturday, January 31, 2004 - 10:19 pm: Edit

one of my teachers that was considering working for ETS told my friend and me that they make the test, then judge how hard the questions are compared to others and make a curve accordingly. kinda vague and weird, no?

By Silverfish (Silverfish) on Saturday, January 31, 2004 - 10:25 pm: Edit

I heard that the curve is the same or similar to the June SAT?