When is the best time to take the SAT?

marysidney
Mon, 19 Jan 2015 00:44:48 +0000

In the east, one normally takes the PSAT in the fall of one’s Junior year. Usually one’s school signs one up automatically for that. The SAT may be taken every three months or so; check the collegeboard.org site. A good plan is to take the PSAT in October, the SAT in January, and retake the SAT in March if you want, thus saving May and June for other testing. You sign up for the SAT online, usually a month or so before you take the test.