SAT score percentile
Is 1240 a good SAT score?
National percentile
81th
Above average
1240 is an above-average SAT score.
You scored higher than roughly three quarters of test takers. This opens a wide range of selective public and private colleges, and a focused retest is often realistic if a target school's middle 50% sits above your score.
- SAT total
- 1240
- User percentile
- 81th
- Percent scoring below
- 81%
- ACT equivalent
- 25
What to do with this number
A score only means something next to a college list.
National percentiles and concordance tables tell you where a score sits across the country. They don't tell you whether it's competitive at the specific schools your student is considering, or what to work on between now and application season. HIYP tracks a student's scores, grades, courses, and activities year by year and turns them into the next concrete step.
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