<p>I have taken the SAT already and plan to take it again in October. Some people say you can combine scores and some say you can't. I was wondering because I got a 650 in Math and a 500 in Verbal. If you can combine scores I was going to just work on Verbal the whole time and leave the math sections blank unless I run through the Verbal. Are you allowed to combine scores?</p>
<p>YOU can’t combine anything. Colleges choose what they want - some colleges superscore - you send in your best test dates (for example the date of your best CR and the date of your best M) and they’ll only consider your highest grade for each section. Others don’t, and only take your single highest test date. Some others consider all grades.
Don’t leave anything blank. Getting a 200 on a section you got a 650 on previously isn’t a good sign - colleges will take it extremely negatively. Work on your CR, sure, but don’t leave the M blank. Just do your best on it - if you’re lucky, the colleges you’re applying to will only consider your highest grade anyway.
I assume you DO know that you can’t flip between sections right? As in, you can’t finish the first CR section then skip the sections after it until you get to the second CR section. You’ll have the same time allotted to finish each section as everyone else - you can’t exactly use your 4 hours for one section and get a 200 on the other 2, and get your best grade possible. If that were possible, everyone would get a 2400 superscore.
So what this means is that leaving the math blank won’t give you an advantage in any way - no extra time to “run through the verbal” then return to it. You’re forced to work on the section your proctor tells you to work on, and can’t re-visit sections.</p>
<p>I think your wrong to be honest. My brothers guidance counselor told my brother to just work on verbal the whole time. He got a 700 on it and then mixed it with his math score of 680. I looked it up and you can mix scores from different SAT’s. So if you can without getting caught flip around to different sections and work on whatever you want.</p>
<p>Your guidance counselor should be fired. And if you think I’m wrong then why bother asking, when you don’t want an opposing opinion anyway?
Anyone care to back me up/refute my theory?</p>
<p>I agree with Jimmy. Colleges use official score reports, which definitely won’t have scores combined.</p>
<p>If you combine scores on your common app, they’ll probably mark that down as an attempt to cheat the system.</p>
<p>You need to check with the colleges you’re considering if they superscore. It would not be wise to try to just combine the highest of each section if the colleges you are applying to ask for the highest score in a single sitting.</p>