<p>I've heard that colleges put together your best scores
from different sittings to evaluate your SAT performance.</p>
<p>Here's my question ...</p>
<p>Let's say you get two 800's on the writing and cr, and a 600
on your math. Then, you re-take the SAT and your math goes
up to 700, but your reading and writing scores fall down to 700 ...
(maybe because you've been studying hard for your math and
not paying much attention to the other sections).</p>
<p>Will they actually look at the 800, 800, and 700 and call it a 2300,
or, will they see it as a 2100 total, whiloe still seeing that your
math has gone up to 700...</p>
<p>Or will they just look at both totals: 2200 then 2100 -- regardless of
math boost?</p>
<p>What's to stop someone from taking it three times and getting 800 on a different section each time and leaving the others completely blank for a superscore of 2400?</p>
<p>Nothing is stopping anyone from doing that. It probably happens sometimes. I've heard of students who nap during the writing section if they think the school they are applying to doesn't look at writing scores.</p>
<p>On the other hand, I've never heard of a real-world instance of a person with section score differences that shifted much from one sitting of the test to the next. Most people have to be "on" for the whole test to score well on any one section. Moreover, most test-takers aren't going to throw away their registration fee by bailing out of two sections while taking the test. </p>
<p>College Board's latest report on score rises after test retakes: </p>