Should I wait to take the SAT?

Sikorsky
Thu, 04 Aug 2011 13:51:23 +0000

I say, wait.

The benefit to waiting is that, while you think you might score 2200 or better now, you’re still likely to score higher after two years of high school. You’ll learn more words. You’ll take the PSAT a couple of times; no matter how many times you’ve taken fill-in-the-circle tests before, taking more of them generally means getting better at filling in the correct circle. And more than anything else, what the SAT measures is how many times you darkened the circle they wanted you to darken.

What would be the benefit to taking it now? Getting it out of the way so you won’t have to worry about it? If you’re talking about taking the SAT at the start of 9th grade, I bet you’re not really that worried. Impress colleges by scoring 2200 or more in the 9th grade (if you can, in fact, do that)? They’ll be just as impressed by 2300 or more in the 11th (if you can, in fact, do that).