<p>Okay, so I'm definitely leaning towards retaking it now. But after I've taken some subject ones I think, I can't take another 4 hour exam straightaway haha. And percentiles, it said 97th percentile for the reading and the writing, and 95th for the maths. I was kinda annoyed at myself at the maths, it's my best subject but meh, that's what retakes are for.
Question tho, so should international applicants to HYP really be aiming to get higher than the average USA applicant's score? If that makes sense...</p>
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<p>echelon, high-five!</p>
<p>echelon i know you are legit. :)</p>
<p>What do you guys think about retaking (it was my first time)</p>
<p>680CR, 710M, 720W (68, 11)</p>
<p>I'm a junior and I think I could maybe get like + 10 or 20 on the CR and Math and +50 on W. Those scores are MAYBE at best, and I might even drop my score.</p>
<p>Colleges like UPenn (<ED), Dartmouth, Berkeley.</p>
<p>How do you get to the page where it lists the percentiles, like echelon's?</p>
<p>it's in the email they sent you yesterday</p>
<p>bpfarmer, I would just like to hit you.</p>
<p>You have no idea how beautiful it is to be happy with less than perfect and still succeed. Also to not be a jerk. That's beautiful too.</p>
<p>i got 100 points for maths alone....i am sooo freaking happpeeeee</p>
<p>nice job everyone, you guys are amazing!
I got a 770/800/750, so I'm thrilled :)</p>
<p>GlueEater, I was actually implying the exact opposite. I was saying that people with perfect -- or near perfect scores -- can have lives.</p>
<p>i got 800 CR, 780 M, and 710 W.
The writing could have been better but the CR and M was great.</p>
<p>i think writing is by far the easiest, then math, but i can never get 700+ on the CR. Can someone please help me?</p>
<p>That's the same way it used to be for me... I'm not sure what changed. My advice for the critical reading section (which I used to suck on) is to make sure everything you answer is DIRECTLY supported by textual evidence, unless they tell you to make an inference. There will be some choices which you might think are RIGHT, based on your analysis of the text, but the critical reading section is hardly critical, if what you say isn't from the text then it probably isn't the right answer. Reading more also helps to boost your scores.</p>
<p>If all else fails, remember that as long as you can do well on the other two sections, anything over a 650 is still fantastic, so don't worry too much.</p>
<p>When one of my friends gets his report back, I am going to take the Math +CR sections of this test and see how I would have done. I've been missing out on these easy tests, I hope that the January one isn't the extremely hard one.</p>
<p>My last test score:</p>
<p>M: 670
CR: 660
WR: 670 (E: 9)</p>
<p>Total: 2000</p>
<p>DECEMBER SAT SCORES:
M: 750
CR: 690
W: 730 (E: 11)</p>
<p>TOTAL: 2170</p>
<p>my SAT score increased by 170 points! IM SO HAPPY</p>
<p>Are you going to retake that? I would hate to but I couldn't leave home with a CR score of 690 because anything under a 700 looks a little negative as some colleges.</p>
<p>I'm not retaking it. I'm content with that score</p>
<p>thats the highest im ever gonna get in CR...im a firm believer of that fact</p>
<p>If you aim for a score like a 700, then you will always study to get that type of score and you might miss a few so you have a better chance of ending up with a score less than 700. In Math, I'm aiming for an 800 and I"m averaging like a 730 on CB tests(and I just got a 730 on the October 2007 Math that my friend let me take today, I missed out on it!). If I were aiming for a 700, then I wouldn't get this high because I'm so focused on answering all the hard questions and understanding the concepts that I have trouble with such as distance, ratios, etc instead of saying I"ll just leave them blank because I know that I can always omit 2-4 and still get a 700. </p>
<p>What did you do to study for the vocab section though? I'm looking at some word lists but you can never memorize every word on the next test. As for passages, as long as you focus and make sure that the passage doesn't overwhelm you and to make sure of what you're reading before you move on, you can do good on them. I still need to practice taking notes of the author's attitude toward certain things, but I'm sure that I can score well on this section with enough practice.</p>
<p>i went to an EXCELLENT prep school</p>
<p>where we memorized 20 vocabulary words a week and we have an exam on the usages of these words and their origins (analyzing root of the words)</p>
<p>and we also learned really good techniques on how to breeze through passages and save time, while understanding the text</p>
<p>Writing, while similar to what we did in Critical reading, it was mostly writing essays under time and evaluating essays (he actually grades essays for CB). We also do intense grammar lessons once a week and go through numerous NUMEROUS writing section practice tests (best way to learn)</p>
<p>and fianlly for math, it was PURE test-taking...and how to avoid mistakes</p>
<p>I've been taking entire math tests almost every day this week and I would hate to stop because then I'll be out of sync on test day but I really want to focus entirely on CR. The week before the test, I'll be taking full practice tests, but I'll be focusing more on Writing because concepts in writing are the only ones that are supposed to be very fresh when you take the SAT. You could get an 800 W on one SAT by prepping like crazy the week before, and get a 650 on the next SAT's writing section since you didn't do any prep or memorize the important traps/rules. </p>
<p>But yeah CR is tough and I find myself getting frustrated when I look at the answer and wonder how it is(Blue Book doesn't give answer explanations) and I just keep thinking that I'm going to get ridiculous questions like these on my January test that make no sense. What are you supposed to do? I've had people tell me to FOCUS VERY HARD, and others tell me to just skim. I don't want to read word for word. It also doesn't help when the subject you're reading about is boring, such as literary criticism. I do better on passages that I like, such as one on Frederick Douglas because we were studying him in History Class and I really enjoyed reading about him.</p>