Is the SAT Reasoning Test easier on some dates?
No. This is a popular misconception probably arising from the fact that the SAT is a scaled test. Some students believe that it’s better to take the SAT when lower scoring students take the exam so that the scaling is more favorable. This is completely false. The SAT is scaled so that scores from any test date are comparable. Although there is inevitably some minor variation in the difficulty of questions from test to test, this is adjusted in the scaling. It is true, however, that an individual student may find one test significantly harder than another. The words used or the math involved may simply have been harder for that particular student. This is one of the reasons why Sylvan’s test preparation experts recommend taking the SAT more than once.
