Should I take the SAT for a 4th time?

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<p>Okay so I am seriously considering taking the SAT for a fourth time. As long as the school excepts score choice it won't matter how many times I take it, right?</p>

<p>1st time: 1510 <a href="no%20prep%20at%20all">CR:620, M:440, W:450, E:6</a></p>

<p>2nd time: 1780 <a href="after%203%20months%20of%20tutoring">CR:690, M:520, W:590, E:8</a></p>

<p>3rd time: 1760 <a href="after%205%20months%20of%20tutoring">CR:700, Math:500, W:560, E: 8</a></p>

<p>Super Score: 1810</p>

<p>Or should I accept that I am an idiot and will never be able to score any higher?</p>

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<p>Well,man i honestly cant understand how after 8 months of tutoring you get 560 on WR on your third time.I dont pretend to be super smart or anything,but I am an international student,not native speaker and without spending a single $ on tutoring I got 630 on my first time (without studying at all for the SAT) and will probably score 740 in June because now after 4 months of self-studying I hardly make more than 3-4 errors on MQ and my essays are quite good (10+) according to my English teachers at high school</p>

<p>I think you should definitely take the test for the fourth time ,but you need to prepare well.500 M ?There are so many concepts you dont know.Even if you skip the last 4 questions of each section you can still score in the range of 580-620 !</p>

<p>What a CR score.It is so nice that you achieved such CR score but just think about it ?Many perfect math students who score 760+ on SAT math and 680+ on SAT WR are complaining that CR is extremely hard and it basically prevents them from getting into colleges they deserve.But you are apparently good at CR ? SO think about it </p>

<p>Do you want some 6th grade math and grammar to stop you from getting at least 2000 on the SAT ?Prepare and go for it !</p>

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<p>there a reason why u shouldnt more than 3 sats but i cant remember what it is…</p>

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<p>You can take the SAT as many times as you like, since most colleges now adopt the “superscore” policy. </p>

<p>Have you considered setting up another College Board account and take the SAT as your first time no?</p>

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<p>The imbalance between your CR and W is odd–it seems to me that you should be able to do better on the W with decent prep. I think maybe you need a different tutor, though, because they sure didn’t help much between your second and third time. Was the first time a lot earlier?</p>

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<p>First time was Nov '08, 2nd was March '09, and the most recent was May.</p>

<p>I am not sure why my writing is so poor. I know partly because of my essay but I only got 55 of the MCs. I know the grammar rules but apparently not well enough, I score better though on practice tests.</p>

<p>My math is because I am in general slow in math. I understand all of the problems but I just can’t get to them fast enough, I probably left 6 or 7 blank at the end of each section. When I work on practice tests I get the majority of the problems right but probably take double the time. I also tend to fall for all of the SAT’s traps.</p>

<p>I will be taking the ACT so I guess I’ll wait and see how I do on that first. I think the ACT math is a little more straight forward even if their is less time.</p>

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<p>4th time seems a bit excessive. Go for the ACT.</p>

<p>Plus…you’re not an idiot…the SATs were never designed to measure inteligence.</p>

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<p>is it possible to set up another account on cb and take SAT again as the 1st time?.. no right?</p>

<p>1st in Jan: CR 540, WR 640, M 740, total 1920
2nd in May: CR 510, WR 620, M 770, total 1900
what a nightmare…</p>

<p>now i plan to take SAT again in oct…
or should i take ACT instead? I’m an international student but i don’t see so many international students take ACT. Why? is there any advantage of taking ACT instead of SAT? (e.g. ACt is easier compared to SAt or something like that?)</p>

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<p>With the introduction of score choice,</p>

<p>there’s no reason to limit your test scores to 3.</p>

<p>Before, you would have to send all your scores to I guess… and if you had taken 3+ it looked bad.</p>

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<p>Well, theoretically ,if you make another account,register under different address and pay with other Credit Card ,it will probably work. ( of course,u should do it from other computer) :)</p>

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<p>So the general consensus is to take it as many times as it takes?</p>

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<p>An 1800 does not make you an “idiot”. It is probably better than 80 percent of test takers. If YOU are an idiot, what does that make then?</p>

<p><a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/sat_percentile_ranks_2008_composite_cr_m_w.pdf[/url]”>Higher Education Professionals | College Board;

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<p>Donate that $45 to someone who needs it for food. It seems to me like you’ve scored around your potential, and - luckily for you - your potential happens to be way above average! Don’t let anybody tell you that 1810 is not a good score, because it really is. Spend your time on something else that will give you a boost in admissions, and best of luck.</p>

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<p>1810 doesn’t mean you’re an idiot. it does mean you need to consider what kind of schools you think you can be successful at.</p>

<p>don’t try making another account. it is pracitcally impossible, and if you try to pull something like that on a college, they may consider it akin to fraud.</p>