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Based on the official College Board and ACT concordance. Enter a score in either box and the other updates.
A concordance is not a conversion formula. It is a statistical table matching scores that represent similar performance across the two tests, built from students who sat both.
Two consequences worth understanding before you rely on it:
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Values follow the official ACT/College Board concordance and are rounded to the nearest reportable SAT score. Concordances are updated periodically, so check the current official tables before using a number for anything that matters.
Converting a score tells you how two results compare. It does not tell you which test suits you, and that is usually the more valuable question.
The difference between the two is mostly pace rather than difficulty. The SAT gives about 95 seconds per math question; the ACT gives about 67. Students who know the material but run out of time almost always do better on the SAT, and no amount of concordance arithmetic will surface that.
Sit one timed section of each. It takes an hour and it answers the question properly.
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Take a timed section Read the full comparisonA table produced jointly by the College Board and ACT matching scores that represent similar performance on the two tests. It is a statistical comparison, not a conversion formula, so a converted score is an estimate rather than the score you would actually earn.
They are close on the concordance. Colleges treat them as comparable, but the tests are different enough that many students score noticeably better on one than the other.
Use the concordance to compare scores you already have. If you are deciding which test to prepare for, sitting one timed section of each is far more informative, because the difference is usually pacing.
No. Every college that accepts one accepts the other, and none weights them differently.
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