<p>If you take a practice test in your sophomore year and get 550 in math, 450 in critical reading, and 490 in writing, to get 1490, what is the highest possible score you can get if you take the SAT in your senior year?</p>
<p>2400.</p>
<p>As for probable, well, it so completely depends that I’m not sure what to say. Good luck though. ;)</p>
<p>yep, any score is possible. I had a 1800 a year ago, and by Jan I got to 2260. Now I am gonig for my last one, hopefully a 2300+</p>
<p>Anything could happen after your first try sophomore year. Just practice a lot.</p>
<p>Realistically, you could go from a 1490 to an 1800 with a lot of studying. With no studying, maybe a 1600.</p>
<p>Kind of dumb question, though…</p>
<p>You can’t really say for sure. A lot might change with the way you think in a year. In my freshman year I think I scored an 1880; 2 years later my score range (I have yet to officially take the SAT this year) is approximately 500 points higher (pre-studying). I honestly don’t think my vocabulary grew that much or that I learned every math concept or whatever; rather, I simply think in a more efficient, analytical way than how I used to. It’s difficult to explain but it can make a huge impact on your SAT score.</p>
<p>When in senior year? Up to 2300+. I am junior now, and at the start of this past summer, with NO studying, I got 1690. In less than 5 weeks of cramming, I got 2080. Now that I kind of know the tactics, I am holding SAT prep until the next summer. Surely I plan to work on voca from time to time. But now I am focusing more on SAT IIs and APs, plus GPA. I am sure I will be able to reach 2250+ at the end, and so will anybody with the right strategy.</p>
<p>How would we know?</p>
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<p>it is more than possible for him to get a 2200+ especially becuase hes only in 10th grade.</p>
<p>im sure you are one of the idiots who believe the sat is an iq test.</p>
<p>I mean, the problem is you said “highest possible score” you could get in 2 years. The correct answer is a 2400, since that’s the highest score you can get on the SAT.</p>
<p>I think you MEANT to ask what’s the highest score that’s LIKELY for you to get, based on averages, and that really just depends all on you.</p>
<p>College Board has statistics on this, and they say that on average, high school juniors improved their scores as seniors by 40 points (combined score - so from a 1490 to a 1530). However, the lower your initial score, the more likely it is you’ll raise it. A 1490 is more likely to go up than a student with a 2090.</p>
<p>55% of juniors raised their scores as seniors. 1 in 25 students gained 100 points or more - that’s 4%.</p>
<p>Statistically speaking, you’re not very likely to raise your score more than 40-50 points. However, these statistics are based on junior to senior changes - so juniors probably took it in the spring and then retook the test in the fall. That’s only a couple of months. You have two years to study, and you also have two years’ worth of classwork to get under your belt. A 100-point or more increase is much more likely in your case than it is for a second-semester junior.</p>
<p>Anecdotal data that might assure you - I took the PSAT for the first time as a freshman and got the equivalent of a 1270 (this is the old test, v + m). I took the actual SAT in the spring of my sophomore year, after studying from a book for a month or so, and got a 1360 (760v 600m). I took it again in the spring of my junior year, with a small bit of studying in between, and got a 1430 (770v 660m). I took it once more in the fall of my senior year and got a 1440 (800v 640m). That’s a superscore of 1460.</p>
<p>As you can see, the great increase in my score was between my sophomore and junior years – there’s only a year intervening, but my score went up 70 points. However, from the spring of my junior year to the fall of my senior year, my score only went up 10 points. So technically I’m in line with the CB stats - if you only look at junior-senior changes. I say this because I think you have a better chance of raising those scores over CB projections. Between the spring of my sophomore year and the fall of my senior year, I raised my score 80 points (100 points if you consider the superscore).</p>
<p>Realistically speaking, I think that you could probably pull a 1490 up to a 1600-1700, if you study in the intervening years and learn some test-taking skills. Could you pull it up to a 2200? It’s certainly possible, but it’s not likely.</p>
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Riiiiight. He’s going to improve by 800 points in two years… gotcha.</p>
<p>i got a 2090 with no studying but couldnt motivate myself to study more. i took it again and got a lower score because i missed an entire page of the writing section. if you really want to raise your score you need to study a ton. i think the act requires less preparation because i got a 34 without studying on the first try.</p>
<p>My freshman year PSAT: 180
My sophomore year PSAT: 186
My (early) junior year PSAT: 203
My (late) junior year SAT: 2100
My (late) junior year ACT: 33 (~2190 SAT equivalent)</p>
<p>There can definitely be an upward trend in your score of several hundred points. Just do well in your classes and be prepared for the tests, and you’ll improve.</p>