<p>My first SAT in March was a 1720 (610:M, 570:CR, 540:W) and my May one was a 1660:(!!(540:M, 550;CR, 570:W).
I really dont know what to do because all my practice SATs were in the 1900-2000 range. I dont know if I should retake it in October or take the ACTs in October or try both; because i already took the ACTs last December and scored a 23, again a shocker, i ran out of time. This whole process is just so frustrating, will my scores come out early enough for EDs?
I Need all the advice I can get!!! THANKSSSSS</p>
<p>What schools are you applying to? (That’s usually the most important question as a “good” SAT score is always relative to the average score of that school.)</p>
<p>And what practice tests are you taking? If you’re taking the ones from the “Blue Book” (The Official Study Guide), and you’re getting in the 1900 - 2000 range, take it again as they are usually pretty accurate at predicting your score.</p>
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<p>It seems like you’re not doing as well as you want to in the ACT either. Depends on which one you feel more comfortable with. How did you do on the practice ACTs? Is it higher than your practice SATs? And at this point, I’d say just stick with one mainly because that way you’ll only have to worry about one exam instead of two.</p>
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<p>Depends on when you take them. For the SATs, most schools will take up to the December test date, though a few require you to finish your testing by November. Go to the website of the college you’re applying to. They should have information concerning that in their ED/RD section.</p>
<p>Hope that helped, and don’t stress out too much. You’ve still got the entire summer to prepare if you want to.</p>
<p>If you are that sure your practice tests are in that range, and were pretty confident you should have gotten better, I would ask for the QAService. My daughter had the SAME EXACT issue with the May test. Scoring in the 2200 range on practice tests, each time in between between 2100-2200. Took every practice test in the book. She got the same exact score as you did, I find it very hard to believe for her, to have dropped over 600 points from all the practice she did to the actual test. Something IS NOT ADDING UP, and for you it maybe the same thing. I saw a few posters yesterday with the same complaints of really abnormally low scores out of their normal range from previous tests as well as being preppared with practice tests. It has happened before CB has messed up, and after seeing her study, going from all correct in the Writing section to only having 10 correct out of 49 multiple choice, either she miss bubbled or they screwed up. Just curious did you have the experimental Math section, or the experimental reading one?</p>
<p>the official CB book should be accurate but in my experience it was always easier than the actual SAT. Princeton Review 11 practice tests was a bit harder, and that was good because the actual SAT was pretty easy by comparison</p>
<p>I think I had the experimental reading</p>
<p>hmm keep practicing. but you gotta keep in mind that maybe that’s just the best you can do. Maybe standardized tests aren’t your thing.</p>
<p>College board did not mess up!! Seriously, the chances are one in a million. After that one mistake, which affected about 1/1000 of test takers, the college board took extra precations. They scan each sheet on 2 different times, at two different places, on two different days. There’s no way that so many CC kids were affected and CB didn’t notice. And, did you notice the May improvement thread? This happens (that is, people think there was a misscore) nearly every time and nothing has ever come from it. I’m sorry, but that’s just the facts.</p>
<p>Blue book is to easy. I also scored in the 1900’s on practice tests and ended up with a 1720.</p>
<p>I then switched to a barrons book and got a 1940. The barrons book has harder questions, especially math, raised me 110 points in math and 90 points in CR</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.amazon.com/How-Prepare-SAT-2006-2007-Barrons/dp/0764134493/ref=pd_bbs_sr_7/104-9006001-1691941?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1180136894&sr=8-7[/url]”>http://www.amazon.com/How-Prepare-SAT-2006-2007-Barrons/dp/0764134493/ref=pd_bbs_sr_7/104-9006001-1691941?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1180136894&sr=8-7</a></p>
<p>i had the 22nd edition</p>
<p>i actual found the BB real accurate for my test scores</p>
<p>i scored around 1900-2k on bb and on the actual test, got the same exact score as the mean of my BB scores. </p>
<p>Another thing that i found useful was obtaining the QA service for every past new real sat that you can. Those are the best practices - EVAR</p>
<p>I don’t know. I contacted college board today, in regards to our situation, and know of quite a few kids of friends of mine in our area, that had abnormally lower scores than previous Jan or March(like 200-600 points). College Board actually contacted me pretty quickly. So again, if you really are in doubt, at least get the QAS to see if there is any discrepancies.</p>
<p>And what was the result of contacting college board? I’m assuming it didn’t get anyone because you would have said so.</p>
<p>What makes you think I got nowhere? Just becasue I didn’t lay it all out on a public message board?</p>
<p>Given the previous posts including “dropped 600 points” and “SOMETHING’S NOT ADDING UP,” I think you would have posted progress for the rest of the “something’s wrong” club to help them out. I didn’t mean to say that you didn’t get anywhere, but that you didn’t actually get anywhere significant (yet). As in, somewhere that will potentially change people’s scores. I’m just trying to illustrate my point that College Board isn’t likely to mess up. </p>
<p>On a different note, I would wait until the online score reports come out before ordering Q&A-just a thought.</p>
<p>Pearson has a very long history of messups with local/national state testing results, with the advent of NCLB the state testing has skyrocketed, and they handle that as well, no system is infallible. They took over the scoring from ETS a few years ago. I contacted more than the college board on this. When and if any further developments occur I will surely inform the masses, again, nothing may come of it, but one does not know till it is challenged and brought to those that may have the power to do more than the high school kids. Remember it is a holiday weekend.</p>
<p>Online System Crashes During Va. State Testing
May 16, 2007 - 6:29am</p>
<p>NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) - Public high school students throughout Virginia had their state-required test-taking interrupted Tuesday by an online system crash that removed many students from their tests and would not let them complete them.
Some students were able to complete the tests, which they must pass to graduate, but others in Newport News, Hampton, Suffolk, Fairfax County and elsewhere received warnings of trouble on their computers and lost the tests they were working on. </p>
<p>“It wasn’t just one test,” said Sally I’Anson, director of instructional accountability for Hampton City Schools. “It’s across the gamut of tests.” </p>
<p>Officials blamed the problem on Internet congestion caused by the number of students being tested at once. They said it originated at Pearson Education Inc., the contractor that handles the required testing in Virginia. </p>
<p>Testing was halted in several localities, and officials said all students who experienced problems will be able to retake the exams. </p>
<p>Virginia Department of Education spokeswoman Julie Grimes said Pearson has experienced similar problems before, but that its technicians were installing “a parallel pipeline” to handle information flow so testing can resume Wednesday. </p>
<p>Information from: Daily Press </p>
<p>(Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) </p>
<p>NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) - Public high school students throughout Virginia had their state-required test-taking interrupted Tuesday by an online system crash that removed many students from their tests and would not let them complete them.
Some students were able to complete the tests, which they must pass to graduate, but others in Newport News, Hampton, Suffolk, Fairfax County and elsewhere received warnings of trouble on their computers and lost the tests they were working on. </p>
<p>“It wasn’t just one test,” said Sally I’Anson, director of instructional accountability for Hampton City Schools. “It’s across the gamut of tests.” </p>
<p>Officials blamed the problem on Internet congestion caused by the number of students being tested at once. They said it originated at Pearson Education Inc., the contractor that handles the required testing in Virginia. </p>
<p>Testing was halted in several localities, and officials said all students who experienced problems will be able to retake the exams. </p>
<p>Virginia Department of Education spokeswoman Julie Grimes said Pearson has experienced similar problems before, but that its technicians were installing “a parallel pipeline” to handle information flow so testing can resume Wednesday. </p>
<p>Information from: Daily Press</p>
<p>hmm…seeing as there’s not much else you can do about it than do it again, why not use the barron’s book? the real test will be easier and then there will be less chance of that score being less than practice tests. just my 2 cents.</p>
<p>when i used hte barrons book my practice test scores were in the 1700’s, then on the real thing i got 1940</p>