I’m applying at various colleges (such as Georgetown, U Penn, UVA, Duke, etc.), and I was planning on taking my three SAT IIs in November and the real SAT Reasoning Test in December. Is December considered to be too late for regular decisions into most universities? Does it look bad to take SATs in December? Any answer is helpful! Thanks!

I need an easy to understand and helpful prep book for SAT reasoning test and subject test (Spanish, literature, and Biology)

After finding out how Holy Cross doesn’t require any standardized tests, I am ecstatic, especially the fact that it doesn’t put me at a disadvantage.

My SAT scores are as follows:
SAT Reasoning Test
1250/1920

SAT IIs:
Chemistry: 720
US History: 750
Math Level 1: 700
Math Level 2: 580, 620, 670

ACT: 30

I took the SAT once without preparation to see if it’s the test for me. Apparently, by my scores, it is not, therefore I opted for the ACT, which is a decent score. However, I’m really persistent on showing Holy Cross my SAT II scores. But I would have to send the SAT scores all at once, meaning they see my crappy reasoning test. So then I would have to submit my decent ACT score.

All in all, would this hurt me? I feel these standardized tests do not put me in a good light, because my school load and corresponding grades are much more impressive, considering how I always took honors and AP courses, giving me a 96.5 weighted GPA and a 94.2 GPA.

On a side note, should I give only 1 great teacher recommendation, or add another one? One social studies teacher I’ve known for 4 years and had in freshman year and now for AP Euro, wrote me a phenomenal letter. I feel it is sufficient. However, I also have another teacher in mind that I had for 2 years in a row for Honors Chemistry and then for AP Chemistry in my sophomore and junior year. Although I wasn’t the best student in the class, I actively participated, went to extra helps all the time, the teacher loves me, and he pushed me to my limits.
Here’s the thing, I can’t send individual SAT scores. It’s the whole thing, with the good and bad.

Also, I thought that the colleges will disregard the lower scores of my Math Level 2, because I have improved it over time.
I CAN’T SEND MY SAT II SCORES BY THEMSELVES!
The deadline for the interview was December 31st for an on campus one, and December 1st for an off campus alumni one. I didn’t do either….

Am I hurt by that and the fact that I didn’t visit? The interview is highly recommended, but I blew my chances apparently.

However, Holy Cross is sort of my within reach school, not necessarily a safety, but not a total reach.

I’m going to be a senior next year and wondering what kind of prep book should i get for SAT I and II? What kind of book that prepare the best reasoning test SAT? What kind of book is best prep for US History, Biology M, and Math IIC?

I recently got back the scores for my first SAT:
Reading: 770
Writing: 680
Math: 560
I’m happy with all except math, which isn’t really good enough for the schools I’m considering. I’m not a bad math student (straight A’s), but English is more my strength and the hard math problems on the test were a little overwhelming, especially due to the time constraints. I took about 10 practice tests from Princeton Review and College Board and I had an SAT tutor as well, which was helpful. Besides those things, what else should I do to raise my math score? 100 points would be ideal, but I don’t know if that’s realistic before the next SAT. Also, I don’t want to jeopardize my reading and writing scores by taking the general again unless I have to because I don’t want them to be any lower. Would a higher score on an SAT II math level test suffice, or do I need to retake the reasoning test?

I am willing to devote 10 hours a day for the next three months to obtain a 2300/2400 on the SAT reasoning test. That is definitely not an exaggeration. I REALLY want to get into Princeton and I think I need a strong SAT score to do so. Which methods would be most worthy of my time:

An SAT prep course
Memorizing 1000 SAT words
Reading a book a week
Taking numerous practice tests
Memorizing all geometry and algebra theorems and formulae

Any other suggestions?

I took the SAT reasoning test in may and just got back my scores. my raw score was 1680. now, i did not prep for this test at all, mainly because i didn’t have time. i do plan on retaking the test later after some prep work to increase my score. so i’m just wondering if its good to get this score on my first try?

I’m gonna be taking the SAT (reasoning test) in December and I have yet begun to study. What books have you tried and have actually helped? I’ve heard Gruber’s SAT prep is really good and Princeton is ok. Suggestions? Thanks in advance!

Hi guys,

I will be taking the SAT Reasoning Test soon and have found Math to be the worst part of the SAT. So I was wondering if you guys know any supplementary books, websites, etc. to help me improve my SAT Reasoning Math score.

By the way, I’m already going to take a Kaplan SAT course soon.

I’m taking the SAT reasoning test in a couple of months and I was wondering what the best ways of preparing for it are. I’ve already taken it once and got a 1850 without preparing at all so this time I want to be ready for it. Any tips? Thanks for the help.

I’m planning to buy one of those SAT prep books to help prepare for the SAT reasoning test. Any suggestions on which one to buy? thanks for the help.

I got a 760.
I had 770 on the SAT Reasoning test math part.
I can’t find anywhere what scores colleges want on subject tests… so is this decent? Do you know where I could find information about subject test score ranges at different colleges? Thanks!

I’m taking the SAT Reasoning test this Saturday, and some people are telling me it’s better to skip questions you don’t know rather than guess; other people are telling me to guess rather than skip the question.

I have that question open up right now and if you know the answer, please take time to answer that question as well.

But my question here is, if it IS better to skip questions you don’t know on the SAT Reasoning test, how many questions would you recommend skipping PER SECTION? How many skipped-questions would be considered too much?

Thanks.

Like you don’t get awarded or penalized for skipping questions like the SAT reasoning test. Is it the same for Subject tests?

I took the SAT reasoning test in october and now that I am sending in my college applications I need to send my SAT score reports to unviersities as well. I would like to know how much time does it take for the scores to reach the colleges ?