The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which item parameters estimated on pretest data from the verbal section of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) can be used for equating purposes in a situation where intact final form SAT testing data have normally been used. Items appearing in two final SAT-verbal forms were calibrated almost completely from pretest data. An elaborate linkage system was devised and utilized to get parameter estimates for the items, contained in multiple pretests, on the same scale. The final forms under study were equated to two different old forms; the equatings were then redone using item parameter estimates based on the pretest data. For each form, the item response theory (IRT) equating based on pretest statistics was then compared to the IRT equating based on intact final form data and the linear equating used operationally. The results varied considerably across forms, ranging from acceptable to marginally acceptable. The overall results of the pre-equating were deemed sufficiently promising that an investigation of pre-equating two forms of SAT-mathematical will be undertaken. (BW)