<p>bonus points!!!!!! ^^^^^</p>
<p>Read post #10 on this thread:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=171242%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=171242</a>
All these rumors and missinformation about "better" times to take the SAT do not help anyone.</p>
<p>i would agree with entomom that its not clear which test is the better test.
to further confuse matters, a friend of my daughters took the same version as my daughter (RC comp passages with Afr-American businessman, weatherman, men in art etc.) She got 4 wrong and had a scaled score of 710.
Another of her friends took the test the same day Saturday June 2006, but had the other version (different reading passages) got 3 wrong 1 blank, which is the same raw score 49 and but got a 720.</p>
<p>I'm not saying that it's not clear which test date is better, I'm saying that there IS no date that is better to take the test. But if you all want to keep discussing the pros and cons of different dates, go ahead.</p>
<p>Well is it better to wait until PSATs come back or just take the SAT in the fall and once again in the spring?</p>
<p>Wait until PSAT comes back definitely. You want to know where your weaknesses are before you take the test. I think the best option is to take it at the end of January for the first time. You get your score in mid February, then take the May test for a retake (or April if you have a ton of AP's and stuff), and then June for SAT II's. If you want to take it for a third time, take it in October.</p>
<p>I have no clue why everybody suggests that people should take the SAT's in the spring of their junior year. Really, the best time to take the SAT's is in the fall of your junior year. There are many reasons for this:</p>
<p>1) You will not be bogged down by finals, AP tests, SAT II's and so forth in the fall of your junior year. If you take the SAT's during April/May, you will have a very tough time with all the standardized testing going on. You will be OVERWHELMED. Even January is a bad decision because of midterms. If you take them in the fall, you will get the SAT's out of your way, and you will not have any other standardized testing going on during the fall.</p>
<p>2) By studying for the SAT's in fall, by virtue, you will get a good score on the PSAT's, and you might become a national merit scholar (an award that looks very good on your college app). You don't need the PSAT's to measure your weaknesses. You can take a practice test from the blue book to do that. Make use of the opportunity that the PSAT gives you for awards and scholarships. </p>
<p>3) You will have the whole summer to start prepping early for the SAT. You will not consider prepping too early for the spring SAT's because you wil not have time. You will have tons of other standardized tests to worry about.</p>
<p>4) This leaves time for you to prepare more for SAT II subject tests, and AP tests which are also taken in the spring of junior year. Your scores on these tests will rise because you have more time to prep for them.</p>
<p>5) If you do poorly, you can take them again in your junior year and not have to worry about them in your senior year. </p>
<p>Honestly, fall of your junior year is the best time to take your SAT's.</p>
<p>I disagree. At my school, in junior English, we learn 160 vocab words (a lot of which appeared on the SAT), and deeply review the SAT grammar. If you take it at the beginning of Junior year, at least at my school, you will not have had this knowledge yet.</p>
<p>Well our school does not review SAT Grammar in English (I'm going to be in AP English next year). I've taken the Blue Book's tests. </p>
<p>The problem with fall is that I've got Marching Band, which takes up quite a lot of time. </p>
<p>Maybe I'll FIRST take one in November (October I've got Math IIC), then one again in March/May/June (there is no April test next year)</p>
<p>I prefer taking the SAT as soon as possible IF you are ready instead of waiting.If you take the SAT quickly you will end up having the errors you have made and sufficient time for improving. This can make a lot of difference as when you rush through your second attempt just after a month.</p>
<p>More the practice, more probability of success?</p>
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