April 2023 SAT Difficulty Ratings

Hey everyone!

I got the data analyzed for the two April School Day exams. Here's an example of one of the difficulty polls. A score of 5 is the absolute hardest, and a score of 1 is the absolute easiest.

Conclusions

  • Both of these exams scored fairly average rankings. No section of either test wandered into the red or green territory of difficulty. No data point here was more than 0.9 standard deviations from the mean.
  • April 12 was perhaps easier than the average except for the no-calculator section.
  • There's not a lot more to say than this. Based only on this data, expect normal curves across the board for these tests. Note that the April 25 test only had 81 responses though, which is a sufficient but not desirable amount to make inferences on.

Ratings

There are 37 tests in this dataset, so the rankings below are from 1st to 37th, with 1st being the hardest and 37th being the easiest. The table below links to images of the rankings by date, each section, and the overall average. Red = hard, yellow = middle, green = easy.

Sorted by April 12 April 25 All Time Hardest All Time Easiest
Reading Difficulty 28th 21st November '19 June '19
Writing Difficulty 30th 21st December '19 Int June '19
No-calc Difficulty 8th 13th June '22 August '19
Calc Difficulty 22nd 8th October '22 US October '19 Int
Overall Difficulty 20th 12th March '23 Int Oct '22 School

Best of luck to everyone who took these exams!