Scoring Your SAT Practice Test - 5 - How to calculate your scores

Sep 14, 2026

Instructions for scoring SAT Practice Test #5 after completing the test. The guide explains how to obtain section raw scores from correct answers, convert them into scaled section scores, and compute the total score by summing the Evidence-Based Reading and Writing and Math scaled scores. It also describes subscore reporting on a 1–15 scale, including Heart of Algebra, Problem Solving and Data Analysis, and Passport to Advanced Math, with specific question groupings to count and convert.

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Scores Overview

How to Calculate Your Practice Test Scores

Get Section and Total Scores

Get Your Evidence-Based Reading and Writing Section Score

Get Your Math Section Score

Get Your Total Score

Get Subscores

Heart of Algebra

Problem Solving and Data Analysis

Passport to Advanced Math

Scoring Your SAT® Practice Test \#5 Congratulations on completing an SAT® practice test. To score your test, use these instructions and the conversion tables and answer key at the end of this document. Scores Overview The redesigned SAT will provide more information about your learning by reporting more scores than ever before. Each of the redesigned assessments (SAT, PSAT/NMSQT®, PSAT™ 10, and PSAT™ 8/9) will report test scores and cross-test scores on a common scale. Additionally, subscores will be reported to provide more diagnostic information to students, educators, and parents. For more details about scores, visit [collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sat/scores](collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sat/scores). The practice test you completed was written by the College Board’s Assessment Design & Development team using the same processes and review standards used when writing the actual SAT. Everything from the layout of the page to the construction of the questions accurately reflects what you’ll see on test day. How to Calculate Your Practice Test Scores GET SET UP 􀁮 You’ll need the answer sheet that you bubbled in while taking the practice test. You’ll also need the conversion tables and answer key at the end of this document. 􀁯 Using the answer key, count up your total correct answers for each section. You may want to write the number of correct answers for each section at the bottom of that section in the answer key. 􀁰 Using your marked-up answer key and the conversion tables, follow the directions to get all of your scores. SAT Practice Test \#5 Created 7/29/2016 1 GET SECTION AND TOTAL SCORES Your total score on the SAT practice test is the sum of your Evidence-Based Reading and Writing Section score and your Math Section score. To get your total score, you will convert what we call the “raw score” for each section — the number of questions you got right in that section — into the “scaled score” for that section, then calculate the total score. GET YOUR EVIDENCE-BASED READING AND WRITING SECTION SCORE Calculate your SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing Section score (it’s on a scale of 200–800) by first determining your ReadingTest score and your Writing and LanguageTest score. Here’s how: 􀁮 Count the number of correct answers you got on Section 1 (the ReadingTest) . There is no penalty for wrong answers. The number of correct answers is your raw score. 􀁯 Go to Raw Score ConversionTable 1: Section andTest Scores on page 7. Look in the “Raw Score”column for your raw score, and match it to the number in the “ReadingTest Score” column. 􀁰 Do the same with Section 2 to determine your Writing and LanguageTest score. 􀁱 Add your ReadingTest score to your Writing and LanguageTest score. 􀁲 Multiply that number by 10.This is your Evidence-Based Reading and Writing Section score. EXAMPLE: Sofia answered 29 of the 52 questions correctly on the SAT Reading Test and 19 of the 44 questions correctly on the SAT Writing and Language Test. Using the table on page 7, she calculates that she received an SAT Reading Test score of 27 and an SAT Writing and Language Test score of 23. She adds 27 to 23 (gets 50) and then multiplies by 10 to determine her SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing Section score of 500. GET YOUR MATH SECTION SCORE Calculate your SAT Math Section score (it’s on a scale of 200–800) . 􀁮 Count the number of correct answers you got on Section 3 (MathTest — No Calculator) and Section 4 (MathTest — Calculator). There is no penalty for wrong answers. 􀁯 Add the number of correct answers you got on Section 3 (MathTest — No Calculator) and Section 4 (MathTest — Calculator) . 􀁰 Use Raw Score ConversionTable 1: Section andTest Scores to turn your raw score into your Math Section score. GET YOUR TOTAL SCORE Add your Evidence-Based Reading and Writing Section score to your Math Section score. The result is your total score on the SAT PracticeTest, on a scale of 400–1600.

FAQs

What do I need to calculate my SAT Practice Test #5 scores?

Use the answer sheet you bubbled during the practice test, plus the conversion tables and the answer key at the end of the document.

How do I calculate my Evidence-Based Reading and Writing section score?

Find the raw scores by counting correct answers for Section 1 (ReadingTest) and Section 2 (Writing and LanguageTest), convert each raw score using the tables, add the two results, then multiply by 10.

How are subscores like Heart of Algebra calculated?

Subscores are based on correct answers from specific grouped questions in the MathTest. Add the correct answers for the listed question set to get a raw score, then convert it using the subscores conversion table.

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