<p>I am a junior and have registered for the SAT december, and SAT January. My plan was that the SAT december would be used as a diagnostic thing, and then during Christmas vacations, I would study intensively for my SAT in January (probably 1 practice test every day: I still got around 10-12 of them) I also ordered a score report for the December test, so that I could know my weaknesses in real time testing.</p>
<li>Is this a good idea?</li>
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<p>Also, I’m a bit concerned that if I end up with a very high score in the first try, and getting a lower score on the second try will look worse to colleges than getting a high score in one sitting (I’m aiming for the 2200’s range)</p>
<li>Do colleges only consider the highest score of our SAT?
Will it look worse if you get one high score followed by one low score than getting a high score in one sitting?</li>
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<p>I’m concerned about this because I just took the practice official practice SAT test in the college board booklet distributed at my high school, and got a 2310 (800M, 800V, and 71W multiple choice writing, essay not considered…) I never thought I could end up with such a high score, and I thought maybe I might end up with a score in the 2250’s/2300’s in my first sitting,which I would be more than satisfied with. I’m scared I might reach a plateau, and do worse in January than December, and that It would look bad for colleges to not improve on the SAT.</p>
<p>Can any help me on this issue? It would really allay my worries if sb inputs some insights on this. Thanks!!</p>
<p>Colleges look at the best scores from your sections (i.e. you get 700 Math in December, and then a 650 in January - the colleges will only look at the 700 only) So they won’t know you got a lower score the second time, they will only know you took it TWICE and that the highest score you got from both takes was a 700. </p>
<p>Everyone has different ways of studying and preparing for the SATs. What you have to keep in mind is, you need to be dedicated and discipline when you are studying. You have to stick to your plan. No Procrastinating. Something that is a beneficial with taking it in December and January is that everything will be fresh in your head, and you will keep going with the studying whereas sometimes people take a few weeks break in between a test date in November and May. As long as you study diligently, you will be good – trust me, you don’t want to get lazy here (I screwed up on that part). </p>
<p>Btw, that’s great that you got a 2310, you’re an natural SAT taker :P. If you keep practicing, I’m sure you can incorporate the tricks you know and some new tricks, and in no time, you will be on your way to the big 2400. </p>
<p>“you’re an natural SAT taker :P”
Lol, it’s so ironic that you say so, since I’m not even a native english speaker. Actually, I worked all summer on my vocab and reading skills, which were, at best, mediocre on CC standards (as a sophomore, I got 51 on the CR part of the PSAT!!). I’m far from a natural test taker: I think it’s more the hard work that completely transformed me.</p>
<p>“Colleges LOOK at the best scores from your sections”
When you say look (not originally capitalized), do you mean that they only consider the highest score, or that they can only literally SEE the highest score for each sections on the application?</p>
<p>I apologize if I appear to be obtuse, but that’s because on the common application, it asks for ALL the SATs you took, and also the scores broken down into categories. If that’s what colleges see, then they will still know every single SAT scores I got for each sections.</p>
<p>look…colleges recieve all of ur SAT scores…every one of them…however they do a trick with them for deciding on teh admission thing…what they do is they take the highest for each subject(CR, MATHS, N WRITING) from all the tries that u took…ie…if u got (800, 750, 600) on one try and then u got(700, 550, 700) (in the order MATHS, CR, WRITING)…then they will take the highest of thge maths , highest of CR and highest of writing ie (800, 750, 700)…so u see…even though literally seakin they will see all ur scores…most of the colleges base admissions decision on this principle…so oiit wont hurt u i guess…</p>