Taking SAT - 4th Time?

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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.

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<p>Sorry, but that is far from universal. While Math is more reactive to added practices, there are people who find it impossible to increase their scores beyond a certain level. On the other hand, for some, the addition of the correct techniques (not dumb recitation of vocabulary lists) yield massive changes in scores. </p>

<p>There are professional tutors who specialize in the verbal components of the SAT and claim it is, in fact, easier to have large jumps in the verbal scores, and this because most students perform poorly on that part of the tests, as they carry the weight of a poor instruction in middle and high school. </p>

<p>Not really surprising as the SAT is and remains a test that rewards reasoning and thinking over brute application of concepts.</p>