<p>Hi all, </p>
<p>I got a heart attack at my 690 in Math. I would almost positively like to believe CB screwed up but I can’t…Im the type of kid that everyone in school just assumed would get an 800…as my prac. tests seemed to agree…anyway…my question</p>
<p>Im taking Math II & Math I in nov. If im EDing to Penn (CAS) and they see that both my Math II and Math I were 750+ (most likely) will they…“invalidate” my SAT math score? Any opinions?</p>
<p>no they would not…they are different tests</p>
<p>They’re different tests, but if you can pull off an 800 in Math II then that will “validate” that you are good at math. Nothing can completely invalidate SAT Math but they might take it a bit more lightly.</p>
<p>Why are you taking both Math I and II?</p>
<p>different tests = no validation.
sat ii math = totally different from sat i math.
sat ii = huge curve… tests entirely different from sat i math.
sat ii doesn’t have as many tricks as sat i math does… (least thats what i think_</p>
<p>SAT I Math mainly intends to test your math reasoning skills. Math II is more of an assessment of how knowledgeable you are in math.</p>
<p>isn’t the math I subject test pretty much the same as the SAT reasoning maths? that’s what I heard…
So if they were both similar, and OP got 800 on maths I and maths II, I’m sure any decent admissions officer would be willing to overlook a 690 on sat reasoning maths. plus, op probably has good ap math subject scores… am i right?</p>
<p>my question is exactly what nyuismydream just said…i was originally going for Lit/MathII/Hist. but im thinking of taking Math I for the sole reason to prove to the admissions office that the 690 was a “mistake”.
Realistically, a 780 or 770 in Math I with a 800 in math II should make any admissoins officer reconsider the 690 right?</p>
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<p>SAT I math shows well you can correctly type numbers into your calculator and how good you are at guess and check.</p>
<p>SAT II however shows some mathematical capabilities.</p>
<p>^ I agree more with dezzo than cjgone; there are numerous SAT I questions requiring more than computer calculation and guess-and-check.</p>
<p>Yes. There’s a reason it’s called the SAT Reasoning Test – SAT I Math tests very much your math reasoning skills and is therefore much trickier than the subject test. The math II subject test is really just brute precalculus.</p>
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<p>The math test is more of a comprehension test than a math test in fact. Worthless directions scattered about waiting for an innocent individual to miss a single word in the directions resulting in a -1/4 point despite how easy the problem was.</p>
<p>Tedious sentence structures that require guess and check / drawing little diagrams via guess and check is not reasoning.</p>
<p>Guess and check isn’t reasoning, but deciding when to is.</p>
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<p>nope not at all</p>