<p>Based on the information posted on this board, I'm fairly sure I got all of the CR questions right on the March SAT (score of 800). If this happens, do I have to do the CR section when I take the test in May? Since nearly all colleges superscore, it doesn't matter what I get. Will there be a penalty if I get a 200 on the section? I would like to be able to relax between the other sections.</p>
<p>Some colleges require you to submit all your scores. You might want to keep this in mind before “relaxing”.</p>
<p>I know this, but if it’s superscored than the lower scores do not matter. Besides, if I went from 800 to 200 the reason would be pretty obvious. However, if this is not allowed or considered unscrupulous than I would like to know.</p>
<p>If you do have to send all scores (which is a real possibility), I don’t think colleges would want to know that you’re a slacker and do the bare minimum. I’m just afraid it may negatively reflect your character, which could hurt admissions.</p>
<p>Of course, that’s just my 2 cents.</p>
<p>It’s not so much about doing the bare minimum as it is the fact that it’s not humanly possible to bring up an 800. If I get a 790 than I will certainly do the section over. However, if it’s heavily frowned upon to do that it wouldn’t kill me to put a decent effort forth. I just felt like the cumulative stress of the test caused me to make careless errors on the Math section.</p>
<p>If you do down that low, collegeboard will flag you for admin. review. Don’t do it.</p>
<p>Youre going to be sitting there for each section anyway might as well do them</p>
<p>Okay then I might as well do the section anyway. Can’t hurt and it won’t be that stressful anyway. The CR was very stressful for me yesterday and I kind of wanted to avoid having to go through it again. If I avoid stressing over the questions are get around 700 would a 100 point drop look that bad?</p>
<p>Or you could just skip ahead to the other sections. When I finished a few minutes early for a few sections, I started the next section early. I sat in the corner in the back of the room, so the proctor wasn’t going to see crap. Besides, he was basically on his laptop not paying attention the whole time.</p>
<p>haha boston thats awesome too bad mine wasnt like that</p>
<p>Grape1…just so you know, when you registered for the test, the agreement you signed with College Board said:</p>
<p>“Test-takers are not allowed to skip sections of the test. Doing so could result in score cancellation, delays, or both.”</p>
<p>Skipping sections for any reason is just an all-around bad idea.</p>
<p>And, no, a 100 point drop from 800 to 700 won’t look all that bad (especially not compared to a 600 point drop!). Remember that a 700 is still in the mid-90th percentile…and if you were able to get an 800 the first time, even if you can’t get it perfect the second time, you probably wouldn’t drop off all that much.</p>
<p>Just answer the questions each time as if you were trying to get them correct for a test. I don’t see the big deal.</p>
<p>Well I didn’t read the fine print it seems. In that case I will simply answer the questions as usual and not worry about whether or not they’re right as I’m taking the rest of the test.</p>