<p>I am surprised to hear about taking SAT so many times becasue of math. Math socre is the easiest one to improve. But you have to work on it, not taking test over and over. It is impossible to improve Verbal, you can only get more lucky next time, but math, all you have to do is to practice many many times and go over every single mistake and completely understand every solution.<br>
If the decision is to re-take, then I would advise to practice math, take timed practice test math section until the desired score (which should be a bit higher on practice test than your actual goal) is achived.<br>
Frankly, D. did not even attempt to prepare for other sections. How you can improve your Reading? Impossible. she only prepared math, which also happened to be her strong subject. She had to have a very high score, we knew that her verbal will be low and she had to compensate for that. This strategy worked! And as predicted, her Verbal (or Reading, whatever the name) was wooping points below the rest of exam, but her total score was solid for her goal, which was accomplished.</p>