<p>I just don't get it. I have done fairly well in my AP Calculus class, and continued to perform amazingly on the ap exam. Yet, I still have a measly 670 on my Sat math score. Do you think top schools would take into account how well I have done in my math courses?</p>
<p>The SAT math section only covers up to 9th or 10th grade work. Therefore, it's very possible to excel in calculus and bomb the SAT math. Try the SAT II Math level II to vindicate yourself.</p>
<p>SAT II Math Level II only goes up to precalc so it may or may not be helpful if your only good at Calc. If you aren't good at word problems or general problem solving (most of what the SAT Math and SAT Math II Level I and II are) then practice would be your best bet.</p>
<p>Do NOT equate SAT math with what you're studying. </p>
<p>Collegeboard specifically designs its tests so it covers not only a wide range of levels, but is also formulated to be a challenge in simply the way questions may be written.</p>
<p>The SAT math test is not a math test (2+2=?), it is a logic test that utilizes mathematical principles. They are different animals and don't necessarily correlate.</p>
<p>Well, I'm just discouraged. I'm done with the college application process, so there's no need for me take the SAT's again. Hopefully, my other scores should make up for it.</p>
<p>Your better off then I am, I never even took geometry or algebra II. Just kinda floated by...on them. I opted out of the SAT entirely since I'm better at the ACT math. I still qioioerwiopioerioiop got a 33 due to random geo.</p>
<p>Ekmiss, don't fret about it. There's nothing you can do about it now anyway. Just so you don't feel alone, my son is a high school senior, taking calculus at the univ. and doing great at it, he's never has gotten anything but an A in any math since he was a wee lad. His SAT math subsection was relatively bad. I mean, I don't mean to sound like one of those people who hold their head and bemoan only being in the 94th percentile instead of the 99th, but relative to his other SAT scores and his abilities in math classes, his math score didn't sync up. The first time he took it he got a 690. He took it a second time, only preparing for the math section because the CR and WR were fine. The second time his CR and WR went up even more, and his math dropped 50 points! He was dismayed, but fed up with SAT tests by that point. His SAT subject test in Math2 was a 730 -- not a brilliant score, but he didn't want to take it again. Anyway, he got into Amherst, so I guess the SAT math section didn't kill him. Take heart.</p>