As you might already know, I've been teaching and tutoring the SAT professionally since my graduation with honors from Harvard in 2002. Since then, I have continued to take the SAT myself in order to stay sharp and up-to-date, including a
perfect 2400 on the May 2014 exam.
A new, "revised" version of the SAT was released in March of 2016. In May of 2016, I took my first official 1600-point SAT since high school in 1997, and scored a 1520/1600 (99%).
That score was OK--but I'm a perfectionist, so I was determined to do better. When I received my QAS report (
Question and Answer Service) in the mail, I closely analyzed my results from the May test, and of course continued to obsessively work on SATs and PSATs with my private students, including the recently released SATs #5 and #6, as well as the 4 official practice PSATs currently available.
I'm happy to announce that on my very next attempt (10/1/16), I earned a perfect 1600, answering all 154 questions correctly (see below for images of the full score report).
As of this writing, I am still one of the only people in the world—if not the only person—to have scored perfectly on both the 2400-point (2014) and 1600-point (2016) SATs.
I have also scored a
perfect 36 on the April 2018 ACT, with all 215 questions answered correctly, and a
perfect 340 on the GRE in 2020.
Will I earn a perfect 1600 on the
new Digital SAT aka DSAT as well? Unfortunately,
the College Board is no longer allowing adults and tutors to take the exam—but I've already had multiple private students earn 1500+ scores on the 7 international versions of the DSAT already administered in March, May, June, August, October, November, and December of 2023.
-Brian
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