<p>on cc i've seen threads about how if someone improves a great deal on their sat the college board flags them for "cheating" and holds onto their scores?
this flusters me. i took the psat as a soph last year. at the time it seemed totally trivial to me, so i just winged it and didn't do that well. i'm taking the psat and the sat this fall as a junior. i've been studying hard for the sat this summer and plan on scoring to my potential (220+ psat, 2200+ sat).
is the college board going to find this improvement "suspicious"?
i apologize if my question sounds stupid, but i'm legitimately worried about this because apparently cc flags test scores that are very different from the student's other scores <--i don't know if that's true because i found it on cc and didn't confirm it</p>
<p>they probably won’t. i went from 147 my sophomore year to a 192 junior year, to a 2140 on the may SAT, and everything turned out fine.</p>
<p>It would have to be a ridiculous jump (500+ pts) for them to get suspicious.</p>
<p>A jump of 250 pts in any section and 350 pts on CR+M composite is enough to merit attention from an ETS review board (keep in mind that they require another piece of corroborating evidence in addition to the unusual score jump).</p>
<p>Check out this article for more info: [Disputes</a> with ETS](<a href=“http://www.princetonreview.com/disputes-with-ets.aspx]Disputes”>http://www.princetonreview.com/disputes-with-ets.aspx)</p>
<p>i definitely think i’ll be seeing a huge jump. i’ve been working really hard this summer, and my practice tests show significant improvement from last year. i’m just really paranoid about the ETS because of things I’ve read, on cc and about the dalton case. i don’t understand how they can just assume that if someone goes from a sub-200 score to getting like a 229 (psat), that the student must have cheated. hard work does pay off.</p>
<p>i’m more concerned that i forgot to skip a line for the questions i skipped -___-, i hope that didn’t happen</p>
<p>Haha 2000–>2290 is not too suspicious at all. Rather if you want from 1500s.–> 2200 that would look awfully strange.</p>