Sat math Essentials

Additional Score Information
Along with information about your scaled score, The
College Board also includes information about your
raw score. The raw score tells you how well you did on
each type of critical reading, math, and writing
question—how many questions you answered cor-
rectly, how many you answered incorrectly, and how
many you left blank. You can use this information to
determine whether you can improve on a particular
type of question. If you have already taken the SAT, use
this information to see where you need to focus your
preparation.
You will also receive information about the col-
leges or universities to which you have asked The Col-
lege Board to report your scores. This information will
include typical SAT scores of students at these schools
as well as other admission policies and financial
information.
When you look at SAT scores for a particular
school, keep in mind that those scores are not the only
criterion for admission to or success at any school.
They are only part of any application package. Also,
your SAT report includes only the score range for the
middle 50% of first-year students at each school. It
tells you that 25% of the first-year students scored
higher than that range and the 25% scored below that
range. So if your score falls below that range for a par-
ticular school, don’t think admissions officers auto-
matically won’t be interested in you. In fact, one-fourth
of their first-year students scored below that range.
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There are three Math sections on the SAT: two 25-minute sections and one 20-minute section. The Math sections
contain two types of questions: five-choice and grid-ins.