SAT Score Calculator

How this SAT score calculator works

The Digital SAT has two sections, Reading and Writing (54 questions in two modules of 27) and Math (44 questions in two modules of 22). Each section is scored from 200 to 800, and your total is the sum, from 400 to 1600. To use the calculator, count how many questions you got right in each module of a practice test and enter the four numbers. If you only know your section totals, switch to Section total and enter two numbers instead. The result updates as you type, with a likely range around each score, your SAT User percentile, and a link to what that exact score means.

Why the Digital SAT is adaptive, and why it changes your score

Each section is delivered in two stages. Everyone starts with a Module 1 that mixes easy, medium and hard questions. How you do on it decides which Module 2 you get: a harder set if you did well, an easier set if you did not. Because harder questions carry more weight, the harder module is the only path to the top of the scale, while the easier module caps a section somewhere in the high 500s even if you answer every Module 2 question correctly. College Board does not publish the cut-off, but on the official Bluebook practice tests the switch happens around 17 of 27 correct in Reading and Writing and around 12 of 22 in Math. The calculator applies that rule automatically and shows which Module 2 it assumed next to each section score.

Raw score to scaled score: the SAT score chart

There is no single official conversion table for the Digital SAT. Every test form is equated so that scores mean the same thing across dates, which shifts the curve a little each time, and the adaptive design means the number of correct answers alone never fully determines a score. The chart below is our reference curve for the harder Module 2 path, modelled on the official practice tests. Treat any single value as the middle of a range about 30 points wide.

Two things stand out. First, the curve is steep near the top: missing a single Reading and Writing question usually costs 10–20 points, and a few misses in Math can drop you from 800 to the 750s. Second, the middle of the scale is gentler, so the same number of extra correct answers moves a 500 further than it moves a 750. For the full explanation, read how the SAT is scored and the SAT grading scale.

Worked example

Say a student gets 21 of 27 in Reading and Writing Module 1 and 19 of 27 in Module 2, then 17 of 22 in Math Module 1 and 15 of 22 in Module 2. Both Module 1 results clear the routing threshold, so both sections use the harder-module curve. A raw 40 of 54 in Reading and Writing converts to about 620, and a raw 32 of 44 in Math to about 640, for a total near 1260, which sits around the 81st percentile of test-takers. Had the same student scored 15 in Reading and Writing Module 1 instead, the easier Module 2 would have capped that section closer to 560 despite the same total of correct answers.

What counts as a good SAT score?

The national average total is about 1025 (College Board’s class-of-2024 mean was 1024). Around 1200 you are ahead of three-quarters of test-takers; 1300 is roughly the 85th percentile; 1400 the 93rd; and 1500 or above puts you in the top 2–3%. Whether a score is good enough depends on where you are applying: many selective universities report middle-50% ranges in the 1400s, while plenty of strong state schools sit in the 1100s and 1200s, and a large number of colleges remain test-optional. See what is a good SAT score for score bands and college ranges, and SAT percentiles for every score.

Converting other scores

Took the PSAT? It sits on the same scale as the SAT, so your PSAT total is a direct prediction of where you stand today; the PSAT to SAT converter explains the typical growth between the two. Comparing with the ACT? Use the ACT to SAT concordance, the official table published jointly by both testing organizations. And if you have taken the SAT more than once, the superscore calculator combines your best section scores the way most colleges do.

Save, share and keep it private

Everything runs in your browser. Your entries are saved locally so they are still there when you come back, and Copy link encodes them into a URL you can bookmark or send to a tutor or parent. Nothing you enter is uploaded or stored on a server. It is free, needs no account, and works on a phone.

Last updated September 2026. Built for the Digital SAT (adaptive format, in use since March 2024). Scores are estimates from official practice-test data, not official College Board results.