<p>My son followed the OP’s suggestion when he took the SATs many years ago. There was no “score choice” then. He did well on the Math section every time he took it, but the second time concentrated on the CR section. He thought he should be able to do better on the W section and took it a third time. Overall, he improved 210 points, but when CR went up, W went down and vice versa. Nonetheless, he got into several fine schools, so I don’t think this method bothered any of them.</p>