<p>^ well score choice AND superscoring are both not fair to the people who only take the SAT once, for whatever reasons. perhaps superscoring is less fair to that group, though.</p>
<p>Score choice is always fair. You could be extremely sick on a test day, but it’s not fair to say that score reflects your ability as a whole. Therefore it is very reasonable to allow someone to choose the test they did best on to send because it best reflects his or her ability.</p>
<p>i’m not sure why you would take the SAT if you’re sick (unless it’s your only chance; and in that case score choice would be irrelevant). and you can always cancel your score, but you have a bit of a point I think.</p>
<p>I like super scoring.</p>
<p>I think superscoring is ridiculous (I swear the SAT is the only standardized test that has it, but I could be wrong). it doesn’t seem fair. then again, I guess I shouldn’t be complain since it might benefit me</p>
<p>Super scoring and score choice are highly unfair practices. A person with maybe 1970, 2140, and 2200 with a superscore of 2390 being considered more highly than a person with 2300 single sitting. Fair? I think not!</p>
<p>why isn’t score choice fair?</p>
<p>to me it sounds like an okay option. the issue is complicated. when schools get multiple tests from the same person they are in this weird position of deciding what to do with the data. should they make explicit their policy for dealing with multiple tests from the same person, or should they not tell the public how they handle that situation, whether it’s by superscoring, picking the best one, or averaging them or whatever (personally i like the last idea). to me it sounds like a tough call (or course we know most schools have made the call to be transparent, but i think there are sacrifices that come with doing that).</p>
<p>score choice, submitting one and only one test, avoids all that, so in that sense i like it.</p>
<p>All tests considered > You get to choose your best test > Super scoring > Section super scoring (There are 3-4 sections of each topic on the SAT) > Problem scoring</p>
<p>Clearly problem scoring is not an option, but it follows from allowing super scoring, as you can start viewing each section as an individual test.</p>
<p>all tests considered has an ambiguity problem i think.</p>
<p>Which bring us back to it being unfair to people who only take it once… That does it, I’m taking the ACT.</p>
<p>For the sickness thing, I actually was a tiny bit sick before the Jan test and already forked up the money. On test day, I got really sick and scored sub-par to what I can do. Didn’t bother canceling the score since it was my first one anyways, so score choice’ll work in my favor :D</p>
<p>as for superscoring, someone with such score fluctuations as given in the example needs some help with consistency!</p>
<p>fln1049…well perhaps your “contentions” would have been a bit more obvious if you had used the right word. How hilarious considering you’re talking about critical reading.</p>
<p>edit:
sorry
but it /is/ 2 AM and I’m exhausted from studying. Consider this your ego boosting moment for Thursday.</p>
<p>about score choice, I don’t see how it would be unfair to people who only took it once. there are plenty of practice tests and whatnot anyways</p>