<p>Current high school students and Current (or Recent) college students (not parents or other old-timers, please!):</p>
<p>Did you take any SAT Subject Test more than one time? </p>
<p>**--If so, which test or tests did you retake?</p>
<p>--Why did you retake the test? (Presumably, to try for a better score, but was there some other reason? For instance, were you sick when you tried the test the first time? Did you enroll in another class in this subject after initially taking the test? Other reasons?)</p>
<p>--How did your scores compare? Did you do better the second time? If so, what was the difference?**</p>
<p>My son took the Bio M in May and got 720. Took it again in October and got 740. He was taking the Chem test in October anyway and wanted to see if he could do better on the Bio M.</p>
<p>–If so, which test or tests did you retake? Physics</p>
<p>–Why did you retake the test? (Presumably, to try for a better score, but was there some other reason? For instance, were you sick when you tried the test the first time? Did you enroll in another class in this subject after initially taking the test? Other reasons?) I got a 710 the first time and I wanted to do better</p>
<p>–How did your scores compare? Did you do better the second time? If so, what was the difference? I got a 770 the 2nd time. To be honest, I’m not sure why it went up. I got a 710 in May, and then a 770 in June. I did an extra exam from the Kaplan book but other than that the preparation was the same. I think the difference was psychological - I was saving the fall dates for the SAT, so June was my last shot, period.</p>
<p>Not sure if it counts - not EXACTLY the same test (math 1 versus 2). But the math subject tests were my D’s worst scores anywhere (other SAT I/II tests were 780, 750, 750, 740, 730, ACT 34). </p>
<p>So when she got only a 620 on Math 1-end of Jr year, she decided to try Math 2-start of senior year, and still only got a 700 (I didn’t look it up but I assume that’s around the same percentile). </p>
<p>Harder math, and up against an entirely different pool of applicants. So, yes, the reason was to try and increase the score of course.</p>
<p>I retook Literature mainly because I thought I could do better. I was also taking Math II and wanted a bit of a warm up at something I am actually good at.</p>
<p>I got a 670 on Math II my first time in May of my junior year. To be honest, the score was kind of a shock, especially considering that it is in the ~50th percentile. I was planning on applying to schools where this score would be far below the 50th percentile of applicants. I retook it in December of my senior year and got a 770. I really didn’t prepare either time, so I have no idea why my score went up except perhaps prior exposure to the test yielding me some advantage the second time. </p>
<p>I wish I had had score choice when applying last year so I could have hidden that 670, but perhaps such an increase shows growth?</p>
<p>One testing day, I took Math I and French; I got a 680 on Math I, and a 600 on French (without listening). I wasn’t satisfied with my French score, so I took it a couple months later with little preparation and got a 630.</p>
<p>I took Math II, Spanish, and Lit in June. My Spanish score was a 560 (yikes), so I’m retaking that Saturday. I also decided to retake Lit (680), and see how I can do on chemistry.</p>
<p>I graduated high school in 2002, which was when the SAT I didn’t have a writing section. I had to retake the Writing SAT II: first time I took it completely cold without any prep whatsoever and got a 560 (yikes!) and then I studied systematically, chapter by chapter, using the Kaplan book for a month in the summer and got a 710. Thankfully, the colleges never saw my first low score as it was in the era of score choice when I could only send to colleges those SAT IIs which I wanted.</p>
<p>My younger brother who graduated high school in 2006 (college class of 2010) took SAT II Molecular Biology twice. First time around he got a 680, studied over the summer and got a 740 the second time. I am not entirely sure, but I think he took over the Math I as well: 700 first time around and 730 on the second try.</p>
<p>nvilla, I am curious how you know what the 50th percentile is at colleges for the SAT subject tests. Is this statistic available somewhere? Thanks.</p>
<p>Junior Year- May(was doing aps), Chem- 750, USH- 750
Senior Year- Math 1, Math 2,(signed up for physics, freaked out day before test and did math 1 instead). MAth 1- 740, Math 2- 780 ( taken all advanced math classes), no special prep, all school work.</p>
<p>I took the SAT twice my Junior year, and my score went up by about 100 points, so I would say it was worth it.
I took Chemistry twice, but scored only 10 points higher the second time.</p>