Pick the score you are aiming for and see your miss budget, or go the other way and turn a number of misses into a score. Forty-four questions, no penalty for a wrong answer.
These assume you were routed into the harder second module, which is the only realistic route to 700 and up. On the easier module the section caps out well below that no matter how few you miss.
These are estimates from the harder second module. Below roughly 600 the easier module is in play and the ceiling changes, which is why the top of this list is the part worth planning around.
The digital SAT scores by question difficulty, not by a flat count, so two students with the same number wrong can land 20 points apart. That is also why the misses are not random. We graded 14,567 answers from 380 students on the same full-length practice test, and per-question miss rates ran from 4% on the friendliest question to 61% on the worst. Free-response questions are about a quarter of the test but half of the ten most-missed.
If you are budgeting misses, budget them on the questions everyone misses, not the ones you happen to dislike. Here is the full ranking.
| Wrong | Right | Estimated score |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 44 | 800 |
| 1 | 43 | 780–790 |
| 2 | 42 | 770–780 |
| 3 | 41 | 760–780 |
| 4 | 40 | 750–770 |
| 5 | 39 | 740–760 |
| 6 | 38 | 730–750 |
| 7 | 37 | 720–740 |
| 8 | 36 | 710–730 |
| 9 | 35 | 700–720 |
| 10 | 34 | 690–710 |
| 11 | 33 | 680–700 |
| 12 | 32 | 670–690 |
| 13 | 31 | 660–680 |
| 14 | 30 | 650–670 |
| 15 | 29 | 640–660 |
| 16 | 28 | 630–650 |
| 17 | 27 | 620–640 |
| 18 | 26 | 610–630 |
| 19 | 25 | 600–620 |
| 20 | 24 | 590–610 |
| 21 | 23 | 580–600 |
| 22 | 22 | 570–590 |
| 23 | 21 | 560–580 |
| 24 | 20 | 550–570 |
| 25 | 19 | 540–560 |
| 26 | 18 | 530–550 |
| 27 | 17 | 520–540 |
| 28 | 16 | 510–530 |
| 29 | 15 | 500–520 |
| 30 | 14 | 490–510 |
| 31 | 13 | 480–500 |
| 32 | 12 | 470–490 |
| 33 | 11 | 460–480 |
| 34 | 10 | 450–470 |
| 35 | 9 | 440–460 |
| 36 | 8 | 430–450 |
| 37 | 7 | 420–440 |
| 38 | 6 | 410–430 |
| 39 | 5 | 400–420 |
| 40 | 4 | 390–410 |
| 41 | 3 | 380–400 |
| 42 | 2 | 370–390 |
| 43 | 1 | 360–380 |
| 44 | 0 | 350–370 |
A budget only helps if you know where your misses actually come from. A free full-length practice test is adaptive like the real one, scores the moment you finish, and lists the topics that cost you the points. No card needed.
About 9 out of 44, assuming you were routed into the harder second module. The exact number moves a little from test to test because harder questions are worth more, so which ones you miss matters as well as how many.
On most forms, none. An 800 usually needs all 44 correct, and on a few generous forms one slip still lands at 800. Plan for zero.
No. There is no penalty for a wrong answer, so your raw score is simply the number you got right. Never leave a question blank.
The digital SAT scores each question by its difficulty rather than counting them equally, so 40 right can be 740 for one student and 760 for another. Any site giving you one exact number is hiding that.
Yes, and it is the biggest factor. Your first module decides whether the second is the harder or easier set. The easier set caps the section well below 700 even with a perfect second module, so the miss budgets here assume the harder route.