<p>I am currently a sophomore in high school and is there an age limit on when I can take the SAT? I already took the PSAT during school and I think you can take it one more time in the beginning of your junior year?</p>
<p>I went on Collegeboard and it looks like there will be a SAT Reasoning test on March 10th? Is a Reasoning test a practice or the auctual test???? I usually hear that you start taking the SAT in your junior year, but if I can start early, is there anything wrong with that??</p>
<p>it's a great idea to take it early, especially as sort of practice for psat. i took it as a sophomore as well, and it lets you assess your weaknesses early on. i retook SATs my junior year, and between the two times, got an 800 on every section. so yeah, go for it. no age requirements at all.</p>
<p>I figure if I take the SATs now, what do I have to loose? And I would have more time to bring up my scores, then I would have if I took it in my junior year!</p>
<p>I see no harm in taking the SAT and/or ACT at the end of freshman year. My son (now a junior) took the ACT and SAT March 05' with NO PREP intentionally. He wanted to see how well he could score. He scored 640 CR, 550 M, 550 W on the SAT. He retook the SAT May 06' after some review at home. His scores increased in two of the three areas; 640 CR, 720 M, 630 W. He took two subject tests this past Dec. Today he will retake the SAT. </p>
<p>My son is also a year round athlete. He has had to plan ahead to avoid a conflict with the College Board's test dates and the post season championships. This year he should advance to the state track meet which is scheduled on the June 2 test date. The fall test dates also conflict with his post season XC competitions. </p>
<p>You must do what you feel is best for YOU. Keep in mind that SAT/ACT test scores are only one thing that colleges consider for admission. They want to see a strong academic record, Extra Curriculars, class rank and the list goes on.</p>
<p>I took them in 7th and 8th grades through the JHUCTY (Johns Hopkkins' Center for Talented Youth). You can actually be rewarded through that programme, rather than it just being for practice; I recieved an academic honour based on my scores, which I was able to use to apply to my prep school. However, I haven't taken them since then (currently a junior) and won't until March. I took the PSATs all three years. </p>
<p>You SHOULD take your PSATs as a junior. If you score well enough, it is a great boost-up to have a National Merit status on college applications. (The top 50,000 of 1.4 million make Commended status.) Several of the colleges I am looking at ask NM status as a seperate application question.</p>
<p>No. The PSATs don't count (unless you recieve an award) and aren't sent to colleges. If you take the SATs, colleges will notice that you were young when you took them and most likely not hold any of it against you, but they will still see the scores.</p>
<p>There's no age limit on the SAT -- I was fourteen the first time I took it, and fifteen the second time. </p>
<p>However, the SAT you take now will count as 'real' -- colleges will see the scores, and though they may discount them (if they aren't fantastic) due to your age, they will be noticed (unless said college very specifically considers best scores only).</p>
<p>All the colleges my kids applied to received all their scores BUT only CONSIDERED the highest score achieved in their decision to accept them.</p>
<p>My H always alarms our kids by saying he found it "fun" to take tests. For some of your friends, spending a Saturday this way sounds like as much fun as eating nails.
I think you'll learn a lot by doing this. Just don't worry about the score at your age, since it usually goes up with practice, age, and study in-between the tests.</p>
<p>Most kids do limit it to a total of 3 or occasionally 4 test sittings in all before they apply. It might be odd to take it, say , 10 times between now and December of your senior year!</p>
<p>I agree with the other posters--there is minimal harm in taking the SAT at a younger age, mostly for practice or, in my case, to have a baseline score to work the college search off of. The only "harm", which is very minor, is that if you get a poor score you would probably prefer not to have that on your record. However, colleges would see when you took the test, and almost every college take your highest score, at least from one sitting if not your highest score on each section combined together, so even a poor score as a sophmore would not be a huge deal. </p>
<p>I am the odd soul (just like my father, just like paying3tuitions' Husband) who actually somewhat enjoys taking these type of tests--it's kind of like a game to me--and I am a slightly OCD planner, so I was anxious to take it. (I would have taken it freshmen year, actually, if my mother hadn't thought that that was a bit too much, even for me). I took it in June of my Sophmore year, and scored well (2170). It was a low stress thing for me--I had a score that I could have sat on and still been qualified to apply anywhere. I didn't worry about the SAT again until June of my Junior year, where I posted a 70 point increase. I could have quit then, too, but was unhappy still with one of my scores and so I finally took it for the last time last October, posting a 50 point increase (though not in the section that I was unhappy with--I never got that section to increase from my original score). So, there is nothing wrong with taking it as a sophmore, and even if you don't get a super amazing 2350, you might still acheive a high enough score that you can relax a bit during the crazy late junior/early senior year testing crunch knowing that you don't HAVE to get a higher score.</p>