<p>Thanks for posting the link, tokenadult. I always have to go searching when I want to post info regarding score increases when retaking. Your post will be easier to find.</p>
<p>Nice post tokenadult. </p>
<p>One thing that I found interesting is the people who took the SATs twice did better on both their first and second testing in CR than those who took it three times. But the people who took it three times did better on their first and second testing on math and writing than the people who only tested twice. It's kinda strange.</p>
<p>I'm also trying to figure out why fewer people took the writing portion than the math+CR portions for their third test and more people took the writing portion than the math+CR portions for their second time. Don't you have to take all three sections if you take the SAT I?</p>
<p>Some members of class of 2008 may be carrying over two-section test scores into those statistics from back in the days when the SAT was only a two-section test. They could have taken a two-section SAT in ninth grade and the new three-section SAT in eleventh grade, for instance. </p>
<p>The other pattern you mention I think generalizes to the idea that people quit taking the test when they think they have scored high enough--or as high as they think they can.</p>
<p>Codered - I think the reason is that M and WR improve a lot with some practice in between testings, but CR doesn't respond to prep as well. Maybe the people who take the SAT excessively also prep excessively?</p>