<p>Same as the title, Is it bad to take the SAT IIs twice?</p>
<p>i want to know this too.. especially if you retake it to raise the score by 20~40 points</p>
<p>Anyone can share his/her experience?
PLEASE~</p>
<p>yeah...I'd like some parameters</p>
<p>what score range is good for a retake? would retaking 700s hurt someone at good schools?</p>
<p>I'm thinking if you get 750 + and retake it looks really stupid.</p>
<p>I know. but how about a 650+ or even 700+?</p>
<p>so don't retake anything above 750? what if you do and you improve to 790-800? still bad?</p>
<p>Well, I'm definitely retaking the Lit test that I bombed in November. Maybe also Bio when I get the score back. I don't think you should retake with 750+ either, but I think I would retake (twice, maybe not three times) anything below 740.</p>
<p>Yeah I think 750 will end up being my cutoff...</p>
<p>i wouldnt retake 700 and above</p>
<p>how bad is retaking.. how bad does it look that is?</p>
<p>Most colleges say they only look at the TOP score of your SAT IIs. I don't think it would hurt you to retake, but obviously don't retake like crazy. The maximum would have to be three, IMO.</p>
<p>regardless of scores, I can't see myself even taking a SAT II test more than twice.</p>
<p>many students at elite private/public high schools sometimes 'fail' the first time and get a 770,780,790(on any subject tests). As long as these students improve on their second try, their improved scores will help them.</p>
<p>Do you have to send both scores to colleges for SAT II's? Someone told me that you don't, but that seems too good to be true...</p>
<p>Colleges will see all scores on your score report (excluding cancellations).</p>
<p>I'd say you take it and settle with it...if you need to raise it for app requirements, take it in November or December. If not, and it's just for placement, only do if it's absolutely neccessary. Like for myself, I only needed a 650 on Math II to fulfill math requirements, and it's impossible for me not to get it, haha.</p>
<p>lol knock on wood Birdman...</p>
<p>haha you could have taken it like next June if it were only for placement haha....I'm gonna do something like that for Spanish.</p>
<p>I retook a 792 score to get an 800--no kidding. Looking back on it, I guess I was crazy--and I wouldn't recommend that anyone else do what I did, but here's the situation:</p>
<p>Twenty-plus years ago, I got a 792 on Math I. Back then, you needed a perfect score on the test to get an 800--it's not like today when you can miss like 4 questions or something. Anyway, I was really upset about missing what I realized afterwards was a question I should have gotten correct.</p>
<p>I wanted to go to Brown, therefore I knew I had to take SAT Math II, not Math I. So when I was scheduled to take the SAT Math II, I retook SAT Math I at the same sitting. And I got 800 on both tests.</p>
<p>P.S. I was accepted to Brown--so I guess it didn't hurt me any. And I remember that question that I missed to this day. The question: A ball with radius 1 is rolling down a 60% incline to the ground. How far from where the incline meets the ground does the ball first touch the ground?</p>
<p>I'll post the answer here in a day, so you all can try this question and see if you can get the answer in the meantime. Oh--and since you weren't allowed any calculators back twenty years ago--and there were no sin, cos, or tan tables given--you have to figure the answer without these if you want to get the "800" score.</p>
<p>I'll be waiting for the answers from those who do it in the way prescribed.</p>
<p>what are the earliest college board testing dates. are there test dates avaliable in september and october?</p>
<p>i'm not sure i really understand your question...</p>