So i took the march sat today and i know for sure that i didnt do so well… the last time i took was in november and i got 2090. 770 writing 720 math and 600 reading. Im pretty sure the writing score for today wont even get near 7
70 because i completely messed up the essay. Math, i thought was harder and i know that missed like 5 questions at minimum (nov test i missed 2 questions…the curve was brutal…) but aside from completely bombing writing and math my main reason for retake it is to improve my reading score. So if i get better score than 600 i think ill be fine…but i cant confidently say i did better in reading this time…should i just keep the score and hope the reading will be better even though i know my math and writing will go down or should i cancel my score? Is it worth to have better reading score from this test and risk getting lower (significantly lower possibly) math and writing scores? Honestly i dont think im going to get into 2000s… is this going to make 2090 look bad? Also is canceling score look bad? Oh and im pretty sure ill be retaking the test whether i cancel the score or not (todays was my second attempt) what should i do? Should i risk to cancel the score or just keep it and retake later. When should you ever cancel scores anyway? Im just worried that the colleges wont like to see low score on my second attempt… please any advice??
First of all, colleges can’t see any trace of cancelled tests. I would cancel it if I was in your position and I had plenty of time to comfortably retake the test (after studying up plenty, of course), but also had at least one more time after the retake to take it yet again in case of a disaster.
The first time I took the SAT, I cancelled it because I missed at least 3 math. Probably a mistake, but I’m sure I missed more and I knew that I had plenty of time (I took it in January) to retake the test. So I took it again yesterday, and I nailed everything, including the math, except my proctor thought that section 8 was a 25 minute section rather than a 20 minute section. In the last 3 minutes, she casually announced her mistake and changed the end time to 3 minutes from then. Because I thought I had 8 minutes left prior to that moment of horror, I didn’t even have time to answer the last 3 questions.
So, looks like I’ll be cancelling again. Luckily I can still retake it in May. This time I will bring a watch, and time myself every single time.
Don’t cancel it. You never know how you’ll do. Last time I took it I was positive I failed and ended up getting a higher score than ever.