<p>sorry, the title was just a way of attracting views, and it works!!!</p>
<p>When colleges say they take the best scores for each section on the SAT if you take it multiple times, is it really that way?
ex:
person A takes SAT once, and gets 2400
Person B (I know this is maybe a little extreme) takes it three times:
1. CR800 M200 W200 First Time
2. CR200 M800 W200 Second Time
3. CR200 M200 W800 Third Time</p>
<p>Do those colleges evaluate them the same way?</p>
<p>Person B will be looked upon very poorly with those scores if an application that requires all individual sections from all tests taken to be reported is used.</p>
<p>The college will assume that the person has purposefully slacked off on two areas during each test and limited his/her effort to only one section. (Of course, two 200s and an 800 for each test would be an extreme.)</p>
<p>Students sometimes assume that this is okay and that a great overall score will be good enough, but this is not the case.</p>
<p>Certain school applications only ask for the best score at the time that you submit it, so they will initially see that 2400, but when CollegeBoard sends official reports, they will eventually catch notice of your hidden lackluster performances on each test. And a 200 is as low as you can get; they won't even consider the possibility that it may have just been an isolated instance of unintentionally sub-par performance.</p>
<p>In a good college's eyes, you shouldn't ever fall below a 700-750 if you've gotten an 800 before. And a 200 to 800 jump is incredibly rare.. almost unbelievable. And an unintended drop from 800 to 200 is even rarer.</p>
<p>Getting a 200 isn't as easy as it sounds. To get a 200, you would have to get every question incorrect, and that requires knowing which answers are correct and which are not, which means only smart (or really lucky) people are capable of getting a 200.</p>
<p>I actually heard of a kid who did essentially this. (I was overhearing two math teachers talking at a math competition.) The kid wanted to improve his verbal score - he already had an 800 on the math. (Before the New SAT.) He didn't bother to do the math sections. Because there was a big discrepencies in the scores - they accused him of cheating and he got into all kinds of hot water before it was resolved.</p>