An SAT score calculator that uses College Board’s own tables
This SAT score calculator does two jobs. If you took one of College Board’s paper SAT practice tests (tests 4 to 11), enter how many questions you got right in each section and it converts your raw scores with that test’s official conversion table — the same table printed in the scoring guide — into a Reading and Writing range, a Math range and a total score range.
If you already have section scores, from Bluebook or a score report, switch to “Section scores” to add them up and see your SAT score percentiles: the user percentile (compared with recent SAT takers) and the nationally representative percentile (compared with all US 11th and 12th graders), plus whether you meet College Board’s college-readiness benchmarks.
How to use the SAT Score Calculator
- Choose “Paper practice test” and pick the test you took (4–11).
- Count your correct answers in modules 1 and 2 of Reading and Writing (out of 66) and of Math (out of 54), and enter the two totals.
- Read your estimated total range and section ranges, with percentiles for each end of the range.
- Or choose “Section scores” and enter two scores between 200 and 800 to get your total and percentiles.
SAT Score Calculator features
Official conversion tables
Eight complete raw-to-scaled tables, copied from College Board’s scoring guides for paper practice tests 4–11.
Ranges, as College Board gives them
Each raw score maps to a lower and upper score, because paper scoring simplifies the real test’s method.
Two kinds of percentile
User percentiles and nationally representative percentiles for totals and both sections.
Benchmarks
Reading and Writing 480 and Math 530, College Board’s college and career readiness benchmarks.
Why the digital SAT has no raw score chart
The digital SAT in Bluebook is adaptive: how you do on the first module of each section decides whether the second module is easier or harder, and questions count according to their difficulty. The same number of correct answers can therefore lead to different scores, and College Board does not publish a raw-score chart for adaptive tests. Bluebook practice tests show your score as soon as you finish.
For students who test on paper, College Board publishes nonadaptive paper versions of its practice tests with fixed conversion tables. Those are the tables this SAT score predictor uses — any “raw score” estimate for an adaptive test is a guess.
SAT score percentiles (selected)
From College Board’s current percentile tables. The user group is recent SAT takers; the nationally representative group is all US 11th and 12th graders.
| Total score | User percentile | Nationally representative |
|---|---|---|
| 1500 | 97 | 99 |
| 1400 | 93 | 97 |
| 1300 | 85 | 91 |
| 1200 | 75 | 81 |
| 1100 | 62 | 67 |
| 1000 | 47 | 48 |
| 900 | 32 | 29 |
| 800 | 17 | 14 |
SAT score range and what to aim for
SAT totals run from 400 to 1600 in steps of 10; each section runs from 200 to 800. On College Board’s tables a 1210 sits at the 76th user percentile, and 1350 at the 89th. Compare your score with the middle-50% range of the colleges you are interested in rather than with a single “good” number.
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SAT Score Calculator FAQ
How do I use this SAT score calculator for a practice test?
Pick the paper practice test number, add up your correct answers in both modules of each section, and enter them. The calculator looks them up in College Board’s conversion table for that test.
Can it predict my digital SAT score from raw answers?
Not for adaptive Bluebook tests — College Board does not publish raw-score tables for them, because scoring depends on which questions you answered. Bluebook shows your score directly.
Why is my score a range?
College Board’s paper scoring guides give each raw score a lower and an upper value, because the paper method is a simplified version of real-test scoring.
What percentile is a 1200 on the SAT?
The 75th user percentile and the 81st nationally representative percentile, on College Board’s current tables.
What is the difference between user and nationally representative percentiles?
User percentiles compare you with students who actually took the SAT in the past three years; nationally representative percentiles compare you with all US 11th and 12th graders, including those who never take it.
What are the SAT benchmarks?
Reading and Writing 480 and Math 530. Meeting them predicts a 75% chance of a C or better in a related first-semester college course.