<p>I've taken the SAT three times -- October 08, May 09, and June 09.</p>
<p>I still haven't broken 700.</p>
<p>My best scores (superscore):
CR - 660
Math - 680
Writing - 690</p>
<p>Giving me a superscored 2030...</p>
<p>I have to take SAT II's in October, and I think my last shot will be either November or December. But even if I do well (I'm shooting for 2200+ and that's all) .. will colleges look down on me for doing so poorly the first THREE times? I don't know, I'm just bad at standardized tests.. I really thought I was breaking 700 today (I went CR: 610 / Math: 680 / Writing: 690) but I was close, with no cigar.</p>
<p>What can I do? I'm just terribly worried because I would just love to finish with November SAT and do well, but I don't know how else to prepare. I've gone through Kaplan SAT (which I hear was the wrong book to use) and taken its practice tests and did better than what I get..</p>
<p>I would not worry about it, your scores are pretty good. As long as you have a good GPA i don’t think taking them again will provide any benefit for you.</p>
<p>Have you went through the College Board official book? (The Blue Book). Those are the real tests, if you just do all of those, you should see an increase in your scores, as you’ll be much more familiar with the test, the ACTUAL test, not Kaplan’s sub-par mockups.</p>
<p>well i don’t know about looking down upon u but I know that taking the SAT after twice is gonna hurt ur application in some ways. Although the score choice programme started this year, unis/ colleges still don’t like it when u take the SAT1 too many times. I think you got an ok score so just work on ur application and stuff. Don’t focus on SAT1 way too much.
My advice, don’t take it again.
BTW i have a friend who got an ok score the second time, he could’ve gone to yale with that score but he did it a third time and didn’t improve that much and got into uni of virginia, full scholarship hehe… dono whether yale rejected because of the multiple times of SAT1 taking hehe…</p>
<p>There is by no means concensus about whether one can take the SAT too much or what too much is. Some even suggest that the schools that superscore prefer that applicants make multiple attempts to improve their scores; the schools benefit by having higher average scores and middle 50 percents.</p>
<p>If the OP would describe hiimself as primarily a collector of facts or master of subjects (rather than a puzzler/critical thinker, primarily), he probably should consider taking the ACT. Some people do find their strengths more suited to it. Maybe find a practice ACT test and take it to see how you do, then take the real thing if it makes sense to do so.</p>