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Enter how many questions you got right in each module of a digital SAT practice test. You get an estimated score for each section, a total, and a likely range.

Reading and Writing modules have 27 questions each. Math modules have 22.

Reading and Writing
Module 2 was
Math
Module 2 was

Estimated total

1200

Likely range 1140–1260

This is an estimate from our own model, not an official score. It does not use College Board’s conversion tables, and your official score can differ.

How the estimate works

  1. Every question gets a difficulty. Module 1 spreads evenly from easy to hard. The harder Module 2 is aimed above average and the easier Module 2 below it.
  2. Each ability level has a chance on each question. The further a question sits above your level, the lower your chance of getting it right (a standard model from test design called the Rasch model).
  3. Your right answers point to a level. The estimator finds the levels that best explain your counts in both modules, starting from the assumption that most students sit near the middle, and takes their average.
  4. The level becomes a score. The middle level is 500 and each step of one standard unit is 100 points, rounded to 10 and kept between 200 and 800. A perfect section on the harder route is 800.
  5. The easier route stops at 650. The easier Module 2 has too few hard questions to show a higher level, and students above it are usually sent to the harder Module 2.

What the range means

The range is the estimate plus or minus one standard error. It adds the model’s own uncertainty to 20 points for what it can’t see: which 2 questions in each module were unscored pretest questions, and how one test form differs from another. If the model is right, about two in three students with your counts land inside the range. Ranges are at least 40 points wide.

The total’s range combines the two section ranges, treating them as independent, so it is narrower than adding them up.

Same number right, different score

Two students each get 15 of 27 right in Reading and Writing Module 1 and 14 of 27 in Module 2. The one who had the harder Module 2 gets about 580 (540–620); the one who had the easier Module 2 gets about 460 (420–500). The questions they got right were harder, so they say more about their level. That is why Module 1 accuracy matters so much: read how the digital SAT is scored.

Questions

Is this an official SAT score?

No. It is an estimate from our own model. College Board scores each test form its own way, so your real score can differ from this estimate. Use it to see roughly where a practice test puts you.

Why does it ask which Module 2 I had?

The digital SAT is adaptive. How you do in Module 1 decides whether Module 2 is harder or easier, and the harder Module 2 can lead to higher scores. The same number of right answers is worth more on the harder route.

What if I don’t know which Module 2 I had?

Choose Not sure. The estimator then guesses from Module 1: the harder Module 2 if you got at least 15 of 27 right in Reading and Writing, or 13 of 22 in Math.

Do wrong answers lower my score?

No. The SAT has no penalty for wrong answers, so a blank and a wrong answer count the same. Answer every question.

Find where to start

Twenty questions show your level in every Reading, Writing and Math domain, and which lessons to start with. Free with a Peakscor account.

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