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SAT score calculator

Enter your correct answers per module from a Bluebook or paper practice test. This applies the official table for the test you took, and shows the working and the source.

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Test format

Bluebook has 27 + 27 Reading and Writing questions and 22 + 22 Math. No official table exists for it, so the score is estimated across all eight published tables.

Reading and Writing

0 to 27
0 to 27

Math

0 to 22
0 to 22

Example scores are filled in. Type over them with your own.

Estimated SAT score Example

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Enter your raw scores to see your score.

4001600

Reading and Writing

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Math

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How this was calculated

Enter your raw scores and the full working appears here.

Where your score lands at 214 colleges

All 1,009 colleges

Compared 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.

    What this calculator does differently

    Most SAT score calculators apply one conversion curve to every test. That produces a confident-looking number that can be badly wrong, because College Board does not use one curve. It publishes a separate table for each practice test, and those tables disagree with each other by a wide margin.

    At a Reading and Writing raw score of 40, the eight official tables put the lower bound anywhere between 470 and 540. That is a 70-point disagreement on one section, and the error compounds once you add Math. Picking the right table is not a detail.

    Raw scores are added before they are converted

    College Board's scoring guide is explicit about the order. You add your two Reading and Writing module raw scores together to get a section raw score, then convert that once. The same for Math. Then you add the two lower bounds together and the two upper bounds together.

    Converting each module separately and summing the scaled results is a real bug that ships on at least one well-known calculator. It produces incoherent output, where a student who performed evenly across both modules scores lower than one who was lopsided at the same total raw score.

    Why the answer is a range

    Section and total scores for the paper version of this digital SAT practice test are expressed as ranges. That's because the scoring method described in this guide is a simplified (and therefore slightly less precise) version of the one used in the actual test.

    That is College Board's own wording, from the first page of every scoring guide. The range is not our hedge. It is the published data. A calculator that hands you a single number has thrown away information that the source deliberately included.

    The real test compounds this further. It is scored with Item Response Theory, which weights individual questions by difficulty, so two students with the same number of correct answers can receive different scaled scores. That is worth understanding properly if your practice scores have been jumping around.

    Paper tests and Bluebook tests are different scales

    The printable practice tests have 66 Reading and Writing questions and 54 Math. The adaptive Bluebook tests have 54 and 44, of which 50 and 40 are scored. Those numbers are not interchangeable, and a raw score from one cannot be looked up in the other's table.

    This tool asks which you took before it asks for anything else, and it handles the two cases separately. If you took a Bluebook test, the result is clearly marked as an estimate, because no official conversion table exists for adaptive tests. The full explanation is here.

    Which tests have official tables

    College Board publishes scoring guides for eight SAT practice tests, numbered 4 through 11. Practice tests 1 to 3 are not published, and there is no test 12. Each of the eight has its own page here with the full table:

    Reading the result

    The total range sits on the 400 to 1600 scale, and the bar underneath shows where it falls and how wide it is. For context, the Class of 2025 mean total score was 1029 across 2,004,965 test takers, and among SAT takers a 1020 sits at the 50th percentile, 1200 at the 75th, and 1360 at the 90th.

    One caveat worth knowing: the percentile printed on your real score report is the All Tester Percentile, which compares you with the past three cohorts of 12th graders worldwide. College Board publishes no lookup table for it, so no calculator can reproduce that exact number. The three percentile systems are explained here.

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    Common questions

    Why does this ask which practice test I took?
    Because College Board publishes a separate conversion table for each practice test, and they disagree. At a Reading and Writing raw score of 40, the eight official tables place the lower bound anywhere from 470 to 540. A calculator using one generic curve is wrong by up to 70 points on that section alone.
    Why is the result a range instead of one number?
    Because that is how College Board publishes it. Their scoring guides give a lower and an upper scaled score for every raw score, and they state that the method in the guide is a simplified and therefore slightly less precise version of the one used on the real test.
    Can I use this for a Bluebook digital practice test?
    Only as an estimate, and the tool labels it as one. Bluebook tests are adaptive and College Board publishes no conversion table for them. They also have 54 Reading and Writing questions and 44 Math, where the paper tests have 66 and 54, so the raw score scales are not interchangeable.
    Should I add my module scores together before looking them up?
    Yes, and this tool does it for you. College Board's guide sums the two module raw scores first and then converts once. Converting each module separately and adding the scaled results gives an incoherent answer.
    Are unscored pretest questions included?
    On the paper practice tests every question in the answer key counts, so no adjustment is needed. The real adaptive test embeds two unscored pretest questions per module, eight per test, and they are indistinguishable from scored ones.
    Is this an official College Board tool?
    No. This site is not affiliated with the College Board and is not endorsed by it. It reproduces College Board's published conversion tables as factual data, with a link to the source PDF for every table used.

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