I took the Math II and Literature subject tests today and seriously choked on time (I skipped like 10 on each). Based on score calculators I’m unlikely to get over about a 730 lit and 770 math 2 (and they might be a few points lower). Considering I already got a 800/770 old SAT, would these subject scores look bad? I’m fairly prepared for several other tests so I don’t necessarily need to keep these, and lots of my schools require all scores.
what? sat subject lit and math 2 are very different than Sat reading and Sat math-not equivalent at all. that said, “bad scores” look bad, so if you think those scores are bad you can retake them, or not.
But they really are very similar tests, and distribution wise one would normally expect to get similar or higher scores on those subject tests than on the similar but lower curved SAT 1s, no? It seems like a low 700s Lit would look somewhat suspicious after an 800 CR, since they really are testing similar skills, and I don’t want it to look like I just did well on the CR by spending all my time practicing test strategies.
Basically, if I were to not retake the Lit, would it have any negative effect to have to send a low 700s Lit score if I also end up having 2 or 3 770+ scores on other subject tests? Or are “all scores” schools still really just only looking for the best subject scores?