SAT Superscoring Question

Applying to College
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<p>I have a question regarding SAT superscoring, as I think I may have found a loophole.</p>

<p>I am thinking about taking two SAT's (in different months of course), and using all of the time from one subject to work on the other two.</p>

<p>For example, on the first test I would work solely on math and reading. In the time allotted, I could probably get 70% of the answers completed correctly with the math and reading time, but I would then work on the remaining un-answered math and reading questions, say six of them, during the time I have for writing. </p>

<p>So for test 1 I would have:
CR - 700
M - 720
W - 200</p>

<p>With this strategy in mind, when I go to take the second SAT, I would tank the subject that I scored higher on the first time (in this case, math), and then just work on CR and W.</p>

<p>So for test 2 I would have:
CR - 710
M - 200
W - 700</p>

<p>So my superscore would be 2130.</p>

<p>How is the superscoring done? Does collegeboard send my superscored scores, or is that something that each admissions office does? </p>

<p>Will it look bad/fishy that I scored 200 on one subject per test? </p>

<p>Will they still count my superscore while looking at my application?</p>

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<p>Well you aren’t supposed to work on other sections outside of the time allotted for it. So you would be cheating and risk your scores being cancelled by the proctor.
It will probably look a little fishy. I actually don’t know much about cases where the collegeboard has frozen scores that they found suspicious but I’m sure there are other threads.</p>

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<p>What I would do is write down the questions on to my scratch paper, and solve them from my scratch paper, so I wouldn’t have to go to the question in the test booklet and therefore I would wouldn’t be working out of section, is that correct?</p>

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<p>no, that would definitely still be considered cheating.
if you want to do it anyway it’s up to you, but it would be much more respectable to fairly earn your score.</p>