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if they get math and writing from, say, the april 2009 exam but then the crit reading from the june 2009, they know you used score choice.
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^ Score choice doesn't work that way. If you took the April 2009 SAT Reasoning Test and the June SAT Reasoning Test, you have several choices: you can report both the April and June scores for the full tests, or only the April score (full test), or only the June score (full test), or neither. You can't pick and choose and recombine subscores from different sittings; it's the entire sitting, or nothing.. For SAT Subject Tests, however, you can choose which individual tests to report from a single sitting.
There are at least a couple of ways schools that ask you to provide all test scores could discover underreporting. First, some high schools report SAT scores on your official transcript. If that doesn't match up with what you report, Bingo! -- you're disqualified. Second, most colleges buy lists of the names and addresses of students scoring over certain thresholds on certain test dates; that's how they generate the mailing lists for all those glossy brochures and postcards they send you. If they keep that information in a data base, they'll have a record of your having tested on certain dates, and if those dates don't match up with the dates you report, Bingo! -- you're disqualified.
What are your actually chances of getting caught? I don't know. But it's not just about being caught. It's cheating, pure and simple, same as falsifying ECs, or counterfeiting a teacher rec, or hacking the school's computer system and doctoring your transcript, or having someone else take the exam for you. Don't go down that path, because once you start, it's hard to stop. Sooner or later it may catch up with you; but even if you never get caught, that's no way to live your life. That's not who you want to be. Don't even think about it.