SAT Score Calculator

Enter how many questions you got right in each section of a practice SAT and this calculator estimates your section scores, total score and overall accuracy. The defaults match the digital SAT: 54 Reading and Writing questions and 44 Math questions. You can change the question counts to score a shorter practice set.

The estimate is a straight-line approximation. The real digital SAT is adaptive: your performance in the first module of each section decides whether the second module is easier or harder, and College Board scores the result using item response theory, which weighs harder questions more. A few questions in each module are unscored pretest items. So the same raw count can map to different scores, and official practice tests in the Bluebook app give the most accurate number. Use this page for quick feedback between those full tests.

If you are also considering the ACT, the ACT score calculator estimates that test from raw scores.

The 200–800 section scale and 400–1600 total are College Board's official reporting scale. The linear mapping is this calculator's approximation; College Board does not publish a fixed raw-to-scaled chart for the adaptive digital SAT, because scaling depends on which questions you answered. Scores near the middle of the range are usually closer to official results than scores near the top or bottom.

The digital SAT replaced the paper test internationally in March 2023 and in the US in March 2024. Each section is split into two timed modules.

• College and Career Readiness Benchmarks: 480 in Reading and Writing and 530 in Math. College Board links these to about a 75% chance of earning at least a C in a related first-semester college course.
• National average: the average total has been a little over 1,000 in recent years.
• Selective colleges: check each college's middle-50% range of admitted students' scores; it is a better guide than any single cut-off.
• Percentiles: your score report shows a percentile for each section and the total. The percentile rank calculator explains how percentile ranks are worked out.

Score full-length, timed practice tests rather than individual modules, and use the official tests in College Board's Bluebook app for your most important checkpoints — they apply the real adaptive scoring. For third-party practice books, use the book's own conversion chart when it has one. Track accuracy by question type (for example, inferences in Reading and Writing, or linear equations in Math) rather than only the total; this calculator's accuracy figure is useful for spotting which section has the most room to improve. Remember that the SAT has no penalty for wrong answers, so never leave a question blank.