SAT Score Calculator
Enter the number of questions you got right on a Bluebook or paper practice test. Built on College Board's official conversion tables, with your percentile and college matches in the same view.
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The number is on the cover of the PDF from College Board. Each test has its own official table, and they differ by up to 70 points on one section, so the right one matters. Not sure? Test 11 is the newest.
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How this was calculated
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Where your score lands at 214 colleges
All 1,009 collegesCompared with the middle 50% SAT range of each college's enrolled class, from the federal IPEDS survey. Sections are summed, so the true composite band is a little narrower. Test scores are one factor in admissions, not the decision.
How to use this SAT score calculator
- Pick the test you took. Bluebook digital tests have 54 Reading and Writing questions and 44 Math. The printable paper practice tests have 66 and 54. The two are different scales, so the calculator asks first.
- Count your correct answers in each module. Bluebook shows this in the question review of your score report. For a paper test, mark it against the answer key in the scoring guide. There is no penalty for wrong answers, so blanks and mistakes count the same.
- Read the result. The large number is your score, the line under it is the official range, and the bar shows where that range sits on the 400 to 1600 scale. Percentile and college matches update with it. Open "How this was calculated" to see every step and the source table.
If you took a Bluebook test the app already reports a scaled score, so the most useful thing to do here is change one module by a few questions and watch how much the total moves. That is the fastest way to see which section is worth more study time.
How the digital SAT is scored
The digital SAT has 98 questions in four modules: two Reading and Writing modules of 27 questions and 32 minutes each, then two Math modules of 22 questions and 35 minutes each. Each module contains two unscored pretest questions, so 50 Reading and Writing questions and 40 Math questions actually count.
The test is adaptive by module. Everyone gets the same first module in a section, and how you do on it decides whether your second module is the harder or the easier version. The scaled score for each section runs from 200 to 800 and the two are added, so the total runs from 400 to 1600.
Your raw score is the count of correct answers. College Board converts it with Item Response Theory, which gives more credit for harder questions and accounts for which second module you saw. That is why no published table exists for the adaptive test, and why this calculator marks Bluebook results as estimates. How the digital SAT is scored covers the mechanics, and the adaptive modules guide explains the routing.
Why the test you pick changes the answer
College Board publishes a separate conversion table for each practice test, and they disagree with each other. At a Reading and Writing raw score of 40, the eight official tables put the lower bound anywhere from 470 to 540. That is a 70-point disagreement on one section, from official data alone. A calculator that uses one generic curve for every test cannot be right for most of them.
| Practice test | Lower | Upper | Band width |
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| SAT Practice Test 4 | 530 | 550 | 20 |
| SAT Practice Test 5 | 510 | 550 | 40 |
| SAT Practice Test 6 | 540 | 580 | 40 |
| SAT Practice Test 7 | 480 | 540 | 60 |
| SAT Practice Test 8 | 490 | 550 | 60 |
| SAT Practice Test 9 | 470 | 530 | 60 |
| SAT Practice Test 10 | 470 | 530 | 60 |
| SAT Practice Test 11 | 470 | 530 | 60 |
Source: the eight official College Board scoring guides for SAT Practice Tests 4 to 11. Retrieved 2026-08-26.
How many questions can you miss on the SAT
Fewer than most people expect at the top, and more than they fear in the middle. On SAT Practice Test 11, a perfect 66 of 66 in Reading and Writing converts to 800-800 and a perfect 54 of 54 in Math converts to 790-800. The table below shows the raw score whose lower bound guarantees each section score on that test, and how many questions that leaves room to miss.
| Section score | Reading and Writing raw | Can miss | Math raw | Can miss |
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| 750 | 64 of 66 | 2 | 52 of 54 | 2 |
| 700 | 59 of 66 | 7 | 49 of 54 | 5 |
| 650 | 56 of 66 | 10 | 46 of 54 | 8 |
| 600 | 52 of 66 | 14 | 42 of 54 | 12 |
| 550 | 48 of 66 | 18 | 38 of 54 | 16 |
| 500 | 43 of 66 | 23 | 34 of 54 | 20 |
Source: Scoring SAT Practice Test 11, College Board. "Guarantees" means the lower bound of the official range reaches the target. Other tests differ by a question or two in either direction.
On the paper tests Math is the more forgiving section per question, because it has fewer questions and each one is worth more scaled points near the top. Read how many questions you can miss for every test, or use the score needed calculator to work backwards from the score you want. What each section actually asks of you is covered separately: the Reading and Writing section and the Math section.
What is a good SAT score
The Class of 2025 average total score was 1029 across 2,004,965 test takers, with a mean of 521 in Reading and Writing and 508 in Math. Among SAT takers, 1020 is the 50th percentile, 1200 the 75th, 1360 the 90th and 1530 the 99th.
College Board's college and career readiness benchmarks are 480 in Reading and Writing and 530 in Math, which together predict a 75% chance of a C or better in first-year college courses. 39% of the Class of 2025 met both.
| Total score | Students | Share |
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| 1400-1600 | 149,767 | 7% |
| 1200-1390 | 357,574 | 18% |
| 1000-1190 | 554,819 | 28% |
| 800-990 | 609,159 | 30% |
| 600-790 | 281,174 | 14% |
| 400-590 | 52,472 | 2% |
Source: 2025 SAT Suite of Assessments Annual Report, Total Group. Retrieved 2026-08-26.
A good score is the one that sits inside the middle 50% range of the colleges on your list, and that is a very different number at a state flagship than at a college that admits one applicant in ten. The college match under the calculator shows where your score lands at the most searched colleges, and every one of the 1,009 college pages shows the full section ranges. What is a good SAT score walks through the question properly.
Every calculator on this site
Every tool uses a published table and links to it. Nothing here is invented.
- Digital SAT calculator Bluebook estimate, with the adaptive test explained
- Practice test scoring One page per official test, 4 to 11
- SAT score chart Raw to scaled, every official table
- Percentile calculator Both published percentile systems
- Score needed calculator Work backwards from a target
- Superscore calculator Best sections across sittings
- PSAT/NMSQT calculator Includes the National Merit index
- ACT score calculator Enhanced ACT, with national ranks
- AP score calculator 15 subjects, official weights
- SAT to ACT conversion The official concordance, both ways
- College SAT scores 1,009 colleges and 51 states
- Guides 21 articles on scoring and strategy
A calculator for each official practice test
Each page scores that test with its own table and prints the full conversion chart.
How this site is different
It asks which test you took
The paper practice tests have 66 Reading and Writing questions and 54 Math. The adaptive Bluebook tests have 54 and 44. Those are different scales, and running one through the other's table is simply wrong.
It shows the range, not just a number
College Board's own tables publish a lower and an upper bound for every raw score. The headline number is their midpoint, and the range is always printed under it, drawn at true width on the scale.
It shows the working
Which raw scores were added, which table row was used, and a link to the PDF that row came from. You can check every step yourself, and so can your tutor.
Read how these calculations work or see every data source.
About this SAT score calculator
An SAT score calculator turns the number of questions you answered correctly on a practice test into the 400 to 1600 score a real test would report. That sounds like one job, but it is two, and most calculators only do one of them. This page does both. It is a digital SAT score calculator for tests taken in the Bluebook app, and a paper SAT score calculator for the printable tests, each on its own scale and each with the right source behind the number.
Digital SAT score calculator, for Bluebook tests
The default mode is for Bluebook, because that is where nearly every practice test is taken now. You enter correct answers per module, 27 and 27 for Reading and Writing, 22 and 22 for Math, and the calculator returns a score, its range, the percentile it sits at, and where it lands against the middle 50% range of 214 colleges. College Board publishes no conversion table for the adaptive test, so no digital calculator can be exact. This one does the next honest thing: it maps your raw score onto all eight official paper tables and reports their median as the headline, with the full spread printed under it. The estimate banner is there in every state, not hidden in a footnote.
Paper SAT score calculator, with the official table for each test
Behind one line above the inputs is the mode for printed tests. Those have 33 questions per Reading and Writing module and 27 per Math module, which is why some calculators ask for 33 questions and others for 27. More importantly, each of the eight printable tests, numbered 4 through 11, has its own scoring guide with its own conversion table, and they disagree: the same raw score can convert 70 points apart between two of them. Pick the test you printed and this becomes an exact SAT practice test score calculator for it, matching the guide row for row, with the PDF linked under the result so you can check.
What a math SAT score calculator needs to get right
Math is scored on its own 200 to 800 scale, and the result above always shows it as a separate card with its own range and raw score. Two things matter more than they look. First, the two module raw scores are added before anything is converted, which is the order College Board's guide specifies; converting each module and adding the results gives a different, wrong answer. Second, near the top of the scale each Math question is worth more than each Reading and Writing question, because there are fewer of them. The questions-you-can-miss table above shows exactly how many on the newest test, and the Math section calculator has the full Math table for every test.
The SAT score calculator chart, and where it lives
A calculator is a chart with a search box. If you would rather read the chart, every practice test page prints that test's complete raw to scaled table for both sections, the SAT score chart lays all eight tables side by side, and the digital SAT page carries an estimated chart for every Bluebook raw score, built with the same method the calculator uses so the two can never disagree.
How this compares with Albert, Princeton Review and the others
Search results for an SAT score calculator are full of brand names: Albert.io, Princeton Review, Khan Academy, Boston Test Prep and more. One question sorts them. Does the tool ask which practice test you took? If it does not, it is applying a single curve to eight different tests, and it will be wrong for most of them by the spread shown in the table above. Two documented cases are worth knowing. The Albert.io calculator converts each module separately and sums the scaled scores, which is the wrong order and makes a balanced student score lower than a lopsided one at the same raw total. Princeton Review publishes a concordance and articles about digital scoring but no working calculator. Khan Academy does not have one at all; official digital practice is scored inside Bluebook. This site asks which test you took before it asks for anything else, and shows the working under the result, which is the only way a number like this can be checked.
PSAT to SAT, ACT to SAT, and GPA
Three adjacent questions arrive at a page like this. A PSAT to SAT score calculator does not really exist, because the PSAT tops out at 1520 on a scale built for younger students; College Board describes the two as vertically aligned, so a PSAT total is a rough floor for an SAT total, and the PSAT calculator scores the PSAT properly. An ACT to SAT score calculator does exist, using the 2018 concordance that ACT and College Board published jointly, and it prints the standard error beside every row. A GPA and SAT score calculator cannot exist honestly, because no college publishes the formula it uses to weigh them; what can be checked is whether a score sits inside a college's middle 50% range, which is what the college match under the calculator does.
Updated for 2026, with dates on everything
Every number on this page has a source and a retrieval date. The conversion tables are the eight scoring guides College Board currently publishes, retrieved 2026-08-26. The percentiles and the distribution figure come from the published table for the Class of 2025. The college ranges come from the federal IPEDS survey. When College Board releases a new practice test, its page is added within days and the calculator picks it up. When a source republishes, the data is re-pulled and the pages rebuild. Nothing here is typed in from memory, and the data sources page lists every document.
Who this is for
Students scoring a practice test who want a number they can trust and a range they can plan around. Parents checking whether a practice score means what a tutor said it means. Tutors who need to show a student why two tests gave different results for the same raw score. And anyone who has been handed a single confident number by a calculator that never said where it came from, and would like to see the working this time.
SAT score calculator FAQ
- How is the SAT scored?
- Each section is scored from 200 to 800 and the two are added for a total of 400 to 1600. Your raw score is simply the number of questions you answered correctly, with no penalty for wrong answers. College Board converts that raw score to the scaled score using a conversion table that is specific to each test form. On the adaptive digital test the conversion also accounts for which second module you were routed to and how hard each question was.
- Is this SAT score calculator accurate?
- For the printable paper practice tests 4 to 11 it is exact, because it uses the conversion table College Board published for that specific test and reproduces the official range. For Bluebook digital tests it is an estimate, and it says so: College Board publishes no table for the adaptive test, so the calculator maps your raw score across all eight official tables and reports their midpoint and full spread.
- What raw score do I need for a 1400?
- On SAT Practice Test 11, a Reading and Writing raw score of 59 of 66 guarantees at least 700, and a Math raw score of 49 of 54 guarantees at least 700, for a total of 1400. That means you can miss about 7 Reading and Writing questions and 5 Math questions. Other tests differ by a few questions, so pick your test in the calculator.
- Does the digital SAT have a curve?
- Not in the sense of grading on the performance of other students on test day. Scores are equated so that a given scaled score means the same thing across test dates. What people call the curve is the conversion table, and it differs between forms because some forms are slightly harder than others.
- How do I find my raw score from a Bluebook practice test?
- Open the score report in Bluebook or My Practice and use the question review. Count the questions marked correct in each module: up to 27 per Reading and Writing module and 22 per Math module. Enter those four counts in the calculator.
- Why is my Bluebook score different from this estimate?
- Because the real test is scored with Item Response Theory, which weights each question by its difficulty and takes into account which second module you received. Two students with the same number of correct answers can get different scores. No calculator can reproduce that from a raw count, which is why the estimate is shown as a range with its midpoint rather than a single certain number.
- What is a good SAT score?
- The Class of 2025 average was 1029. Among SAT takers, 1020 is the 50th percentile, 1200 the 75th and 1360 the 90th. College Board's college readiness benchmarks are 480 in Reading and Writing and 530 in Math. Whether a score is good for you depends on the middle 50% range of the colleges you are applying to, which the college match under the calculator shows.
- Can I use this calculator for the PSAT or the ACT?
- No, each test has its own scale and its own official tables. This site has separate calculators for the PSAT/NMSQT, PSAT 10 and PSAT 8/9, the ACT, and every AP subject, plus converters between SAT and ACT scores.
- Is this the most accurate SAT score calculator?
- For a printed paper practice test, yes, in a checkable sense: it uses the exact conversion table College Board published for that test, and the result matches the official scoring guide row for row. For a Bluebook digital test no calculator can be exact, because the adaptive test is scored with Item Response Theory and no table exists. This one is the only one that says so and shows the full spread across all eight official tables instead of picking one and calling it official.
- How is this different from the Albert.io SAT score calculator?
- Albert converts each module separately and then adds the scaled results. College Board's scoring guides add the two module raw scores first and convert once. The difference is not cosmetic: at the same total raw score the Albert method can give a different result depending only on how the correct answers were split between modules, and a student who performed evenly can come out lower than one who was lopsided. This calculator follows the published order, sums raw scores first, and shows the arithmetic under the result.
- Why do some SAT score calculators ask for 33 questions per module?
- Because the printable paper practice tests have 33 questions in each Reading and Writing module, 66 in total, and 27 in each Math module. Bluebook digital tests have 27 and 22 per module instead. A calculator that shows 33 is a paper SAT score calculator; one that shows 27 is for Bluebook. This one has both, and switches the scale when you switch the format, because a raw score from one cannot be looked up in the other's table.
- Is there a separate math SAT score calculator?
- The Math section is scored on its own 200 to 800 scale from its own raw score, and the section card in the result above shows it separately from Reading and Writing. If you only want Math, enter the two Math modules and leave Reading and Writing at zero: the Math number and range are exact for that test. There is also a dedicated Math section calculator with the full Math conversion table for every practice test.
- Does this work as a PSAT to SAT score calculator?
- Not directly, because a PSAT/NMSQT score of 1200 is not an SAT score of 1200: the PSAT tops out at 1520 and is scaled for younger students. College Board describes the two as on a vertical scale, meaning a PSAT score predicts roughly the same SAT score if you tested the same day, but there is no conversion table and the estimate is loose. Use the PSAT calculator for a PSAT practice test, and treat its total as a rough floor for what the SAT would show.
- Can I convert an ACT score to an SAT score here?
- Yes. The ACT to SAT converter uses the 2018 concordance jointly published by ACT and College Board, which is still the only official one, and it shows the standard error alongside every row so the conversion is not mistaken for a precise equivalence. There is a matching SAT to ACT converter.
- Is there a GPA and SAT score calculator?
- No calculator can combine them, because there is no published formula that does. Colleges weigh GPA and test scores differently and most do not disclose how. What can be checked is whether a score sits inside a college's middle 50% range, which is what the college match under the calculator shows for 214 institutions, with the full section ranges for 1,009 colleges on their own pages.
- Where is the SAT score calculator chart?
- Every practice test page prints that test's full official conversion table, raw score by raw score, for both sections. The SAT score chart page puts all eight tables side by side, and the digital SAT page has an estimated chart for every Bluebook raw score built with the same method the calculator uses.
- Is this SAT score calculator updated for 2026?
- Yes. It uses all eight scoring guides College Board currently publishes, tests 4 through 11, retrieved 2026-08-26, and the percentile table for the Class of 2025. When College Board releases a new practice test its page is added and the calculator picks it up. Every data page shows its retrieval date.
- Does Khan Academy have an SAT score calculator?
- No. Khan Academy provides practice material, and official digital practice tests are taken inside College Board's Bluebook app, which scores them itself. The older Khan Academy PDFs that still circulate belong to the retired paper SAT and their tables do not apply to the current test.
- What is my SAT score from my raw score?
- Enter the number of questions you got right in each of the four modules and the calculator shows it instantly. For a Bluebook test the headline is the median across all eight official conversion tables with the full range under it. For a printed practice test, pick the test number and the score is read from that test's own College Board table. Either way, open "How this was calculated" to see the exact rows used.
- Is my SAT score good?
- Check two things the result already shows. The percentile tells you where the score sits among everyone who took the SAT: the Class of 2025 average was 1029, 1200 is the 75th percentile and 1360 the 90th. The college match tells you whether it falls inside, above or below the middle 50% range at the colleges you care about, which is the number an admissions office actually compares it with. A score can be good for one list of colleges and not for another.
- How good is my SAT score compared with other students?
- The percentile line under your score answers this with College Board's own published table. Among SAT takers, 1020 is the 50th percentile, 1200 the 75th, 1360 the 90th and 1530 the 99th. The distribution figure shows the same thing as a picture: each step is the share of takers in one 50-point band, with your range shaded. Note that the percentile on an official score report is the All Tester Percentile, which College Board publishes no table for, so it may differ by a point or two.
- Is a 1200 a good SAT score?
- A 1200 sits at about the 75th percentile among SAT takers, well above the Class of 2025 average of 1029. It is inside the middle 50% range at many large public universities and below it at the most selective colleges, where the range typically starts around 1450 or higher. Enter 1200 in the college match above to see exactly which is which.
- How does an SAT score calculator work?
- It converts a raw score, the count of correct answers, into the 200 to 800 scaled score for each section, then adds the two sections for a 400 to 1600 total. The conversion is a lookup in a table, and the important detail is which table. College Board publishes a different one for each paper practice test, and none for the adaptive digital test, so an honest calculator has to know which test you took and has to say when it is estimating.
- What is the SAT score range?
- Each section, Reading and Writing and Math, is scored from 200 to 800. The total is the two added together, so it runs from 400 to 1600. Scores move in steps of 10. There is no penalty for a wrong answer, so a blank and a wrong answer count the same and every question is worth attempting.
- What is the highest SAT score?
- 1600, from a perfect 800 in each section. On the newest paper practice test a perfect 66 of 66 in Reading and Writing converts to 800-800 and a perfect 54 of 54 in Math to 790-800, and only 7% of the Class of 2025 scored 1400 or above.
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