<p>Hey!</p>
<p>Here's my predicament - I've been scoring really well in the SATii Mathii practice tests... but still pretty poorly in the SATi... I honestly don't know why.... there is something wrong with me. If colleges see both, and see that I did well on Math2... does that balance and/or cancel out the SATi score? Or is not that big of a deal... thanks!</p>
<p>It will certainly help, though I don’t think it will completely cancel it out. Of course it also depends on what your idea of “pretty poorly” is</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say it “cancels out” your bad score. I would think it can only help, though. Personally, I would continue doing practice tests, and do the best you can on the tests. Don’t worry about what it looks like to colleges. (If it means anything to you, the Math 2 has a much more generous curve, so that may explain why you’re doing better on Math 2.) If you practice and prepare and put forth your best effort, then that is all you can do to achieve the best score. A good Math 2 score looks good for colleges, so keep doing well there. Just do your best and don’t worry to much over it all!</p>
<p>It’s because the SAT Reasoning Math is all thinking out the problem and making sure you do every single part of it, making sure you didn’t skip anything and avoiding the traps and tricks.
So basically your results mean that you stink at thinking it through, but you can actually do the math.
So… really, no. They test two different things. I don’t know if colleges will look at it that way though.</p>
<p>Good colleges will know that you are not smart, but simply work hard. So they think your potential is limited.</p>
<p>^I disagree</p>
<p>I think that it’s okay if you do better on the Math II, because the material is technically “harder.” Though it is a bit weird that you’d do worse on the SAT I Math section - I guess it’s the curve. </p>
<p>I’m going through a similar sort of a dilemma, but it’s the other way around. If I got, let’s say, a 780 on the SAT I Math section but only got a 690 on the SAT II Math 1, should I bother to send the SAT II Math 1 at all? or if the Math 1 is required, will it hurt my application?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>