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What is a good SAT score?

What is a good SAT score? 1200 or more is good: the top 25% of SAT takers.

From 400 to 1600. A practice test total works too.

A good SAT score

1200+

The top 25% of SAT takers. The average is 1029.

Your result

Every SAT total, from College Board's percentiles
SAT totalVerdictPercentile
1440-1600Excellent95th to 99th+
1360-1430Very good90th to 94th
1200-1350Good75th to 89th
1030-1190Above average52nd to 74th
960-1020Average41st to 50th
400-950Below averagebelow 1st to 39th

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Questions people ask

What is a good SAT score?

1200 or more is good: the top 25% of SAT takers. 1360 or more is the top 10%, and 1440 or more is the top 5%.

What is the average SAT score?

1029 for the class of 2025: 521 in Reading and Writing and 508 in Math (College Board, 2025 annual report).

Is 1300 a good SAT score?

Yes. A 1300 is the 85th percentile, 271 points above the average.

Is 1400 a good SAT score?

Yes, very good. A 1400 is the 93rd percentile: only 7% of SAT takers score higher.

Is 1000 a good SAT score?

It is average: the 47th percentile, close to the 2025 average of 1029.

What SAT score do I need for a top college?

Check each college's middle 50%. At MIT, Princeton and Yale it starts between 1480 and 1520 (Common Data Set 2024-25), so aim for 1500 or more.

How we work this out

What it does

Enter your total for a straight answer, from College Board's own percentiles.

Any SAT total from 400 to 1600, compared with recent SAT takers.

Method

  1. Your percentile is College Board's SAT User rank for your exact total: the share of recent SAT takers who scored the same or lower.
  2. Excellent is the top 5% (1440 or more). Very good is the top 10% (1360 to 1430). Good is the top 25% (1200 to 1350).
  3. Above average is above the 2025 graduating class average of 1029 (1030 to 1190). Average runs from the 40th percentile up to that average (960 to 1020). Below average is under the 40th percentile.
  4. The average is College Board's 2025 annual report: the most recent score of each 2025 graduate who took the SAT.

Sources

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