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So here you've already applied to a particular school. You're looking for a boost in the form of a better SAT1 score. So you take the test, get the results, if the results are favorable you then pay the fee and have the new test results forwarded to the college and your application is enhanced by new and better scores... or, if you don't score well, your application is not hurt as the institution is wholly unaware you took the test yet again. Is that right?
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<p>Thats right Nightingale. Its obviously a personal judgement on how much better it has to be to go ahead and report it.</p>
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.. does that hold true for CR and W scores as well? Or do the men have higher overall scores due to the preponderance of perfect 800 Math scores amongst men? Also, the break point may be higher for the overall SAT, but I believe it is lower for GPA and many other factors. Isn't it true that girls face stiffer competition amongst themselves?
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<p>Cheers......well it used to hold true for CR as well, but in puting the horse after the cart last night, I discovered that last year the females did outnumber the males at the upper scores in CR as well as in writing (this was expected and thought by some to be the reason for adding writing to the "core score"). However, the CR performance is a change from past years, and apparnetly atrributable to the dropping of analogies from the verbal section. For some reason men understood these better than women.</p>
<p>Don't have a link to prior years.</p>
<p>Anyway, if you cut and paste to excel and do the cumulative numbers, 22,700 men score at or above 750 in math, compared to 10,100 women. CR at or above 750 came out 12,400 men to 13,500 women. By comparison, in 2003 it was 12,888 for males and 12,226 for females.</p>
<p>Last year, the ration of females to males taking the test was about 8 to 7.........785,000 females to 681,000 males. This is simliar to recent years.</p>