Does the same number right always give the same SAT score?
College Board says two students with the same number right in a section can get different section scores.
On the digital SAT, the same number of right answers always gives the same score.
Applies to: The digital SAT, from 2023 internationally and 2024 in the US.
What the sources say
College Board: "Two students who answer the same number of questions correctly in a test section may earn differing section scores based on the characteristics, including difficulty level, of the particular questions they answered correctly."
College Board: How SAT scores are calculatedCollege Board's own paper practice tests use a raw score table and give each raw score a range, because that method is "a simplified (and therefore slightly less precise) version of the one used in the actual test".
College Board: Scoring your paper SAT practice test 4
Still open
The question-level details the real scoring uses are not public, so no outside table can turn a count into an exact score.
Do this instead
Treat any raw-to-score table as a range. A Bluebook practice score uses College Board's own scoring.
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Sources read 6 October 2026.