I had 3 hours of sleep before SAT IIs... cost me big time... what should I do?

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<p>Skip the following 'rant' if you want, basically it says I got three hours of sleep before the test and therefore screwed up..............</p>

<p>i went to bed at 12 planning to wake up at 7:30...
and just lay there in bed tossing and turning for FOUR hours. I could not sleep for the life of me.
Didn't get to sleep until 4:00 AM. It was awful</p>

<p>So I show up to take these tests on 3 hours sleep, I drank a monster in the morning and thought I was doing ok on chem until the proctor calls time all of a sudden after 54 MINUTES!!!!! And I didn't get to 10 questions at the end plus I had skipped 3 before then for a total of 13 unanswered... So I am just hoping to salvage a 700 (but very well may be below that) and move on with it, probably to retake in november (SAT I in oct). I just wish they were offered in the summer...........</p>

<p>And for math II i wasn't on my game b/c i was tired so i was again pressed for time, skipped 6 and prob a few wrong</p>

<p>............So now I don't know what to do. I suppose I should NOT cancel the scores because I really need at least two subject tests and the only one I have taken already is Math Ic. I recently took chem and math II (for those of you who skipped the above part :))and because of a lot of different crappy things that happened, I didn't do as well as I know I could have. I am guessing I got 720-760 in math and 670-720 in chemistry.... in practice tests I was getting 800 and 750!!! So I'm really unhappy but I am trying to realize that there is nothing I can do now to change the scores I got.</p>

<p>But... since I'm applying to MIT- maybe early, and ivies, I feel that I need very high scores on these tests. I am definitely taking SAT reasoning in October (need to boost my CR score- it's 620 now) so that leaves november, which I believe will be too late for early apps (?) and that could potentially destroy my hopes for MIT. </p>

<p>But anyways I'm 90% sure I'm going to take french wish listening in november, and then I guess I will have to retake these (unless, miraculously, I did well on them) and submit them after my initial app goes in (?). Or maybe I should just cancel them and rely on november? </p>

<p>Is it possible that I could also challenge CB about the proctor calling time early on my first (chem) test?</p>

<p>Also, say I got 740 math 2, 700 or 690 in Chem, would colleges actually look down upon me if I retook those? What would you say the retake "cutoff score" is for an MIT/Penn/Brown/Dartmouth applicant? What if I wrote a note to colleges explaining the situation I had?... Nah I tend to think they wouldn't really care.</p>

<p>So... as you can see I'm a big mess and have no idea what I should do for both now and the future, and so I would REALLY REALLY appreciate any advice people had.</p>

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<p>If you got lower than 750's I would retake (just because you KNOW that you can do better than you did). And why not just apply regular to MIT?</p>

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<p>Personally I wouldn't cancel; maybe they turned out better than you thought, and then you don't have to worry about them in November (trust me, you'll have enough to worry about in the fall.)</p>

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<p>First thing that goes when you're sleep deprived is sense of time.</p>

<p>I got 5 and a half hours of sleep and was fine and not feeling tired at all; I think the Monster was a really bad idea, guaranteed you would crash later.</p>

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<p>yah...that was stupid, sorry, lol. i got like 16 hours of sleep</p>

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<p>i tried to sleep but i was anxious and stuff and I was just lying in bed not able to fall asleep!!!!</p>

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<p>thanks CDN Dancer, seeing that is a big relief... I have decided not to cancel. </p>

<p>Do you agree with the 750 cutoff score for retakes? On both tests? (or should I aim for 800 in math?) Thanks</p>

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<p><em>sigh</em> noone will ever know if you got an 800 math2 b/c you missed 0 or you missed ~5. Yet if you have like a 750, it's obvious you missed 7-9. I dunno, I have a similar dilemma. :( </p>

<p>If I got above a 750 I would not retake...it would look neurotic. but instead, i'd study and take another subj and hopefully make an 800 on that 1.</p>

<p>btw, I actually woke up this morning not remembering why I had to get up so early. :)</p>

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<p>i went to sleep at 6PM
work up at 5 the next morning refreshed.
had 2 hours of review.</p>

<p>and aced both the Math IIC and Biology test</p>

<p>why am i saying this?
because getting enough sleep > cramming</p>

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<p>don't cancel.
i actually thought about cancelling my score, but decided against it.</p>

<p>remember that there will be a curve & you probably didn;t do too bad, if you had previously studied for the test.</p>

<p>i actually had a lot of trouble falling asleep too. it took me about 2/3 hours to actually fall asleep. luckily i went to bed at 11 and on usual days i function on like 5 hours of sleep, so i was good to go. :]</p>

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<p>I acually thought about cancelling chem last year.</p>

<p>But didn't. </p>

<p>Then i got an 800.</p>

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<p>Well, I didn't cancel it. We'll see what happens.</p>

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<p>i just hope it really is ok to get good scores on a retake if the originals aren't good enough (?)</p>

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<p>I didn't fall asleep until around 2:30 and woke up around 6:30. But I had massive amounts of adrenaline going so I was pretty hyped up during the thing.</p>

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<p>my night before the june 7 test day sucked.
i couldn't fall asleep until 3:30 am or something and had to get up at 6:30 to get ready and take 3 subject tests.
strangely, i didnt feel that woozy during the tests, and i was so glad my headache went away during breakfast</p>

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<p>laughcry that is similar to what I had...it sucked totally... but i figured out i still have a chance to get up to 800 math and 750 chem (at the highest) so I will just wait to see what happens. </p>

<p>I have another question though... since I am probably going to have to retake, should I study all summer to try to keep it in my brain or should I just forget it and study closer to the next test date?</p>

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<p>i would keep studying...the more the better...maybe you can push chem to a 770</p>

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<p>what do other people think? It is going to be a significant amount of time that I could have been studying for SAT I's or (just relaxing)... is it worth it?</p>

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<p>Actually I was the opposite. I slept 3 hours before my sats and got 2 800's and one 780. I found that yes I would be tired but not in the morning when I wrote them.. I was dead tired around 4 pm, not earlier. There was actually a study I read on this, cramming > sleeping because in the morning you wont be tired because of three hours sleep.</p>

<p>Then again I perform very well under tiredness/pressure and I do work much more efficiently at night (12AM-6AM) than during the day =/</p>