So I received my December Math level II score and was disappointed to get a 740. I left 2 questions as I didn’t know them and my maximum number of mistakes would’ve been about 5, as I prepared extensively and even finished the test way before time. I expected a score of over 780, or at least 770. Although people will say that 740 is a good score (come on it isn’t even 70 percentile), but I strongly believe that I did way better than a 740.
My question is if I should send the score for hand verification. Hand verification usually takes 4-5 weeks and I’m highly skeptical that universities would receive it on time. Does anyone have a prior experience regarding this? Will the score reach universities on time (aka before score receipt deadline) if I mail the request before 1 Jan 2016? What are your suggestions regarding this?
The other thing to remember about score verification is that the new score becomes your final score, so make sure you are 110% confident that it will be a better score. D2 took World History but accidently bubbled in US History as the test name, even though she answered all the World questions. As you can imagine, her score was abysmal, but because it came back to her as a US History score, we knew it was wrong. Got it re-scored and it doubled. So you need to be absolutely sure the new score can’t be worse.
@momzhood Right, thank you for the heads up. I’m sure the score won’t lower after the re-checking, though. Yet, I’ve decided to not send it in for re-scoring as it’ll then be super delayed and cross the deadline, especially for the universities which require it. Instead, I might just send them for correction in April or so, after the decisions are released, for my satisfaction that I did indeed did do better [or worse]. (lol)