That usual question - should I retake?

floridadad55
Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:28:00 +0000

If the schools you apply to are superscoring, you might as well retake.

My son increased his CR from a 730 to an 800 with zero studying.

You are only a couple answers away from getting it up to a 700.

You don’t need to take math and writing again.

I am wondering if there is some way you can simply take the CR, and not even bother sitting through the other two sections of the exam, and take a zero on them.

However, if the schools you are applying to look at all the scores, then I would stand pat.

FIA, my son got 800 CR, 800 writing and 700 math on the last sitting. I wanted him to retake the math, because he really didn’t do much prep work for the test at all, but he wouldn’t do it. Some people might say that these scores are good enough, but I tend to agree with you that if you are applying to top schools with 10% acceptance rates, every little point helps.