Your SAT Score Explained – SAT Suite (2024)

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The student score portal will show your most recent digital SAT Suite of Assessments test. You can view a score summary, and click See Score Details for additional score insights, including:

  • Information about your performance against college and career readiness benchmarks.
  • Total and section score comparisons and percentile ranks among testing populations at your school, district, state, country, and/or all testers worldwide.
  • Your knowledge and skills in four content domains in reading and writing and four content domains in math.

Watch the videos in the Resource section below to understand your scores, whether you took the SAT on a Weekend or in school on a school day.

Total Score

The top portion of your score information contains a big black number. This is your SAT score, also referred to as your total score. Next to your score are the numbers 400–1600, indicating that the range of possible scores on the SAT is 400–1600. To the right of your total score is your score percentile, telling you what percentage of students who took the test did better or worse than you. In small type below your score is your score range. This refers to the range of scores you might expect to get if you took the SAT multiple times on different days. Some colleges look at your score range rather than your total score in considering your application.

Section Scores

After the total score are your two section scores, Reading and Writing and Math. The two section scores added together equal your total score.

Your two section scores are presented on a line infographic that shows where your score falls in relation to a benchmark that means you're on track in preparing for college. This part of your score insights also shows your percentile for both section scores, meaning the percentage of test takers who scored lower than you.

Your Score Recipients

After your section scores are your score recipients. Recipients are colleges or scholarship programs that you indicated you wanted your scores sent to. The score recipients section indicates the date your scores were sent and the status (whether they were sent or not and why).

Discover Growing Careers

Your score report may have you thinking about what comes next. If you live in the United States, your score report PDF will include Career Insights Snapshot—a list of growing careers in your state that need skills like yours. Please note that this list does NOT SHOW CAREER RECOMMENDATIONS or the only careers you should consider for yourself. The list can show you more about what careers are out there and key aspects of a job, like whether it requires a college degree.

Each job on your score report:

  • Is growing in your state, meaning there are jobs available.
  • Pays a living wage because we know salary is important.
  • Requires more education after high school, in some cases college but not in all.
  • Connects to the math, reading, and writing skills you demonstrated on the SAT because every job has a set of measurable skills.

All of this might make you curious about a career on the list—or maybe none of the options feel like a great fit. That's okay! The insights can help you start thinking about what you might want to do after high school. To learn more about your options and careers that include your interests, take the short career quiz.

Resources

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Understanding Your Digital SAT Score Report

Your digital SAT score report provides a lot of feedback as you prepare for your future after high school, college, career, or wherever your path leads you.

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Understanding Your Score Report For The Digital SAT On A School Day

Your digital SAT score report provides a lot of feedback as you prepare for your future after high school--college, career, or wherever your path leads you.

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SAT School Day Understanding Scores for Students and Families

Includes resources for students who took the SAT during in-school testing to interpret their scores and share them with their families. Translations into Mexican Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, and Arabic are available for English learners.

SAT School Day Understanding Scores for Students and Families

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SAT School Day Understanding Scores for Students and Families

This document helps students taking the SAT during in-school testing and their families understand the student's scores and learn where to find more information.

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SAT School Day Understanding Scores for Students and Families (Spanish)

This document helps students who took SAT School Day and their families understand the student's scores and learn where to find more information.

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SAT School Day Understanding Scores for Students and Families (Chinese)

This document helps students who took SAT School Day and their families understand the student's scores and learn where to find more information.

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SAT School Day Understanding Scores for Students and Families (Arabic)

This document helps students who took SAT School Day and their families understand the student's scores and learn where to find more information.

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SAT with Essay Understanding Scores for Students and Families

Includes resources for students who took the SAT with Essay during in-school testing to interpret their scores and share them with their families. Translations into Mexican Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, and Arabic are available for English learners. NOTE: The Essay is only available in states where it's required as part of SAT School Day administration.

SAT with Essay Understanding Scores for Students and Families

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SAT with Essay Understanding Scores for Students and Families

This resource helps students who took the SAT with Essay and their families interpret their score report and find information about next steps.
NOTE: The Essay is only available in states where it's required as part of SAT School Day administration.

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SAT with Essay Understanding Scores for Students and Families (Spanish)

This document helps students who took the SAT with Essay and their families understand the student's scores and learn where to find more information.

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SAT with Essay Understanding Scores for Students and Families (Chinese)

This document helps students who took the SAT with Essay and their families understand the student's scores and learn where to find more information.

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SAT with Essay Understanding Scores for Students and Families (Arabic)

This document helps students who took the SAT with Essay and their families understand the student's scores and learn where to find more information.

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Understanding SAT Weekend Scores for Students and Families

This document helps students taking the SAT on a weekend administration understand the student's scores and learn where to find more information.

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FAQs

Can you get a 1600 on the SAT with wrong answers? ›

Generally speaking, you can miss 1-2 questions on each section and still get a perfect 1600. How many questions you can miss on each section and still hit your target score will depend on your exam's difficulty level and how raw scores convert into scaled scores for that particular test.

Can you get an 800 on SAT with wrong answers? ›

answering a question incorrectly results in the same score. Typically, to get an 800 in Math, you cannot miss any questions because you need to get a raw score of 58 (out of 58 questions). Occasionally, an SAT will allow you to get one wrong answer in Math as you can see on Tests 4 and 8.

How many wrong answers do you need to get 1500 on the SAT? ›

Balancing your SAT score

Studying smartly and playing to your strengths will help you get 1500+ on your SAT. For instance, you need at least 55 out of 58 questions correct in the Maths section, 41 out of 44 in the Writing & Language section, and 48 out of 52 in the Reading section to score a 1500+ on your SAT.

How many questions can I get wrong to get a 1400 on the digital SAT? ›

Broken down by section, you can get 7 wrong in Math for a 700 and 8 wrong in Reading & Writing for a 700. To earn a 1400 overall, you can still get 15 answers wrong and be just 200 points shy of a perfect 1600!

Is a 800 bad on SAT? ›

With scores ranging from 400 to 1600 and more than 1.7 million students nationwide taking the SAT each year, the average score range is between 1000-1100. A score of 800 falls significantly below that national average and is about the 8th percentile of all test takers, which means that 92% received a higher score.

Is 900 on SAT bad? ›

Is 900 a good SAT score? A “good” SAT score is one that makes you a competitive candidate at a majority of colleges, including your ideal college. A 900 doesn't give you as many college options as we'd normally like students to have, so raising your score closer to that national average (1150-1100) is encouraged.

Is 700 on SAT bad? ›

A 700 on a single section of the SAT is a solid score, although it depends on your target schools and overall application. The SAT has two sections: Math and Evidence-Based Reading and Writing (EBRW). Each section is scored on a scale of 200-800, making the highest possible total score 1600.

Does SAT still penalize wrong answers? ›

Although wrong-answer penalties have been done away with on the SAT – and did not exist on the ACT – and guessing has proven benefits on both tests, myths about guessing as a test-taking strategy persist among high school students.

How many questions can I get wrong to get a 1550 on SAT? ›

If you need a 1550, then maybe that means you can miss 4 on the reading and 1 on the writing. Then, plan to get three—or five, or however many questions you figured out before—wrong. So when you get to a really tough question in the reading section, you can think of it as one of the questions you can choose to miss.

What was Will Smith's SAT score? ›

Will Smith scored a perfect score of 1600 on the SATs. Despite this unbelievable score, Will made the decision to opt-out of going to college and didnt even bother applying, instead he focused on pursuing a full-time career in rap.

Is the digital SAT curved? ›

The SAT® exam itself is not curved relative to test takers. However, the College Board puts each test through an “equating” process. This process ensures no student receives an advantage or disadvantage from taking a particular for on the SAT® on a particular day.

Is it possible to get a 1500 on the SAT first try? ›

Achieving a 1500+ score on the SAT is not an impossible task, but it will require you to adopt a well-crafted study plan and to have a comprehensive understanding of how the test and its scores are broken down.

Is a 1200 a good SAT score? ›

A 1200 is an above average score that places you in approximately the 74th percentile of all high school students taking the exam. A score of 1200 makes it possible to apply to the vast majority of schools throughout the nation and be competitive for admission at a sizable number of colleges.

Is the digital SAT harder or easier? ›

For starters, the digital test will be shorter and adaptive. That means the test will get harder as the student progresses through it, but the level of difficulty will depend on how they performed on earlier questions. According to Patel, the digital SAT is also more "student-friendly" than previous years.

How rare is a 1400 SAT? ›

What percentile is a 1400 SAT score? A 1400 SAT score puts you at the 95th percentile, meaning you scored higher than 95% of all test takers.

Does the SAT penalize for wrong answers? ›

However, even the most prepared students can stumble across questions that leave them unsure. Remember, there's no SAT guessing penalty. You should always answer all questions, even if you need to guess. Educated guessing gives you the best chance of achieving a higher SAT score when you get stuck.

Can you get rejected with a 1600 SAT? ›

As previously mentioned, all colleges and universities will consider students with an SAT score of 1600 for admission, including the most competitive institutions. Even a perfect SAT score does not promise acceptance, but all of these schools have a history of admitting students with scores of 1600.

How hard is it to get a 1600 on the SAT? ›

The maximum score on the SAT is a 1600. Out of the two million students who take the test every year, only about 500 get the highest possible SAT score. This elusive perfect score catapults you to the top of high school academic achievement and can be a big boost to your college applications.

Can you see what answers you got wrong on the SAT? ›

For a detailed look at your answers, you can order score verification for a fee: Go to your report's Score Overview. Click Test Questions near the top of your screen.

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