How Many Applicants Get the Lowest SAT Score?

Being scored the lowest SAT score, definitely, you are tensed. Are you scoring really, a pretty low?

Might be, your earned SAT score is even not close to the lowest possible SAT score.

Indian students (NRI), what can you do now? Are you felt to know about the lowest possible SAT score? How is lowest your SAT score ever?

Obviously, these questions are kept revolving in your mind. Might be, you are frustrated and praying to God, others took lower than you.

This article has assembled for the answers to your queries in a simple manner, whereby you can understand and if your SAT score is beyond that, you can take a sigh of relief. All the best!

What had the Lowest SAT Score Ever Been?

As per the data is revealed, the lowest possible score is a 400 on redesigned SAT, 200 for Evidence-Based Reading and Writing and 200 for Math.

600 composite was the oldest SAT score with scores of 200 on the Critical Reading, Math, and Writing sections.

The fact is, we can scale the SAT test. The average score is about 1500 old and 1000 for redesigned. For the bottom 25% of scorers, the ratio is about 1270 for old SAT and 850 for redesigned. The SAT scores below than 1100 old and 750 redesigned is rare as only 10% of aspirants scored these lowest scores.

So the outcome is, even if you earned a low score, it doesn’t mean, you are at the lowest position. In fact, its’ quite daunting to score a 600 old/400 redesigned SAT composite score.

How It’s Possible to Get the Lowest Score on the SAT?

As mentioned above, its’ quite tough to score a 600 old/400 redesigned than you might think. The fact is, even you guess on every question, you will able to score above the lowest possible score. Why?

Just consider, you don’t know about anything, and start guessing each question. The situation will be, probably, you would able to score 25% correct answers.

As you know, raw score in SAT helps to count scale score. This same criterion we used here. A reading raw score with 25% of the questions accurate is a 13 while a writing raw score with 25% of the questions accurate is an 11. Once combined these will be around 350.

Have you noticed that 350 is far away from the lowest possible score of 200? And if we add a math 25% raw score is about a 14, then the net score becomes 380, which is good actually.

Now add up these two scores, the total will be a 730, which is far from the lowest.

Hence, if you would have tremendous bad luck, only then, you would able to get a low score of a 200 on both sections for a 400 composite on the Redesigned SAT.

Have you noticed that as per the old SAT score, it’s quite complicated to score the lowest? Since the old SAT test had a penalty for every wrong answer, you needed a negative raw score on both sections to score the lowest. It means, if you could sleep during the test, means leave all the questions empty, your raw score will be, which means about 210-220 per section, again the higher than the lowest possible score. 

How One Achieved the Lowest SAT score?

The fact is, getting a 200 on both sections old SAT was a superb tricky. For this, you could have dropped most of the questions along with answering the 8 questions inaccurately to fetch a -2 raw score. Besides, you could have attempted every single problem wrong and able to fetch below -2. Only in those cases, you were able to receive 200 scores in each section.

How to Smartly Attempt the SAT Test Next Time?

Whatever lowest score you have achieved, let’s forget. For the next time, make sure to remember some tricks-Time management, smart guessing, the process of elimination, and familiarity with the SAT test are all tactics that can make or break your SAT score.

We highly recommend the Indian students/NRI to manage their time and try to answer at least 40 out of 58 questions to score better marks, instead of struck into a single problem and able to answer only 30 questions.

In brief, thorough preparation and smartness are two basic factors that will never interrupt you to win in the SAT test.

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