<p>Usually people take the SAT for a second time and improve...but the opposite happened to me... </p>
<p>I did worse the second time in two sections and only increased in one section.</p>
<p>The super score increased just a little bit...</p>
<p>I understand they superscore, but they can still see all my scores....</p>
<p>so will this negatively affect my chances?</p>
<p>“so will this negatively affect my chances?”</p>
<p>Not likely. There is a reason folks superscore. It’s not to help boost your self-esteem. It’s because schools recognize that extraneous factors can influence how you do on a test on any given day. Maybe you were having a bad hair day, or your cat just died. Or the stars weren’t aligned quite right.</p>
<p>There is variability in the scores that people achieve when taking tests, and part of that variability is due to artifacts that don’t particularly relate to how capable you are.</p>