<p>I retook a similar score, because I was sick the day of the first exam and actually threw up at the exam and I was sure I could do better. A 2260 is a very respectable score, as is a 680. I think it’s very important that you KNOW you’ll do better (either by studying or by circumstances) before you take it.</p>
<p>I would take the SAT IIs in october. Then after the exam, if you think you did well on the SAT IIs and think you can do better on CR, take the SAT in november. Otherwise, you can retake SAT IIs or just move on with life.</p>
<p>MIT 012: yeah, collegeboard says my CR score is 97 percentile, and the hardest school I’m applying to (brown) has the middle 50% as 660-760, so I figure I’m probably in decent shape. if being in the top 3% isn’t good enough then I give up.</p>
<p>Hello…a 680 is not suck. Stick your head outside of the CC world for a moment and realize that a 680 is above average – far above average. The ‘average’ scores at top schools are ‘averages’ for a reason – some people score higher, some people score lower. A 680 is not going to shut you out of a top college, especially when you have high scores in the other sections.</p>
<p>Of course whether it is worth the time and energy to study and retake is up to you. If you think you have a chance of improving your score between now and November and think you can take a different approach than the one you’ve been taking, then perhaps it would be in your best interests to try again. If it’s just going to be unnecessary stress it may not be worth it.</p>
<p>Just remember what goes up can go down also. There of lots of stories of folks who did not improve but stayed withing the standard deviation on the down side.</p>