Mixing and matching in SAT scores

Are we allowed to report the highest scores in each section on our SAT in our composite scores?

Also, can I switch SAT Math 2 with the SAT 1 Math? I think my SAT 1 Math (around 700) is unrepresentative, considering the only time I took the SATs were in my freshman year in high school.

Ridiculous how something I took in 2005 will affect my job search.

 

you can def report highest scores in sat 1 as a total composite score (i.e. the first time you get a 740 math and the next time you get a 760, all aelse equal, you can report your composite twenty points higher even if the verbal and wiritng scroies are from the first time you took it.)

However, i dont think you can sub in an sat 1 for an sat 2

 

I guess it would be ok, but I think it depends on the exact scores. For the above example, I would not because there is a big difference between 800/800 and getting 800 with two tests. If is was something smaller like 730/680 and then 700/740. I think that would be ok, but the higher up you go with the numbers and the bigger the swing in scores the more risk you take. Different banks may have different expectations.

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More than a few top targets allowed the reporting of section scores from different sittings so I'd imagine it's not that frowned upon.

Does it destroy the already tenuous validity of the scores? Most definitely.

 

Well college admissions offices generally say they will look at your top math and top verbal regardless of whether those came together (of course they do actually get to see your full results). I think it's fine and expected for you to mix and match. Or you could just get all 800's your first time around like some of us.

 
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Yeah, highest combined SAT scores. They aren't going to ask for a score transcript or any crap like that, though I'd guess they'll probably be able to verify the #s you give via the background check. Just like colleges, banks want to hire pedigree and talent. High scores may, arguably, not mean much in the real world (they are pretty damn good predictors though, read the data).

And azwethinkweiz, I hate to break it to you but the entire point of the SAT is that it DOESN'T test what you learned in high school. It was supposed to be the silver bullet for people who came from poor neighborhoods with terrible schools, creating some measure of talent that was school-independent. At least, that's the theory that drove the creation of the test. Thus why it tests reading skills and comprehension, not knowledge of literature. Thus why it tests basic algebra and simple mathematical computation, not calculus. If you scored in that range then the school you went to probably has that somewhere in it's easily-discovered distribution. You won't look bad for putting on a 1200 going to a school where the student body averages 1200. If you want to introspect a little bit, don't think about where that 1200 is going to get you, but where that 1200 has already gotten you.

 

I've read literature stating a .82 linear correlation between total SAT score (M+V) and IQ score.

It may not be much in predicting 'life success' but it is a measure of innate intelligence, something that might/should be used in competitive labor markets.

no point in retaking it now though, there are a hundred better uses of your time. however if you do retake it you should be able to easily get a better score just due to being older and exposed to a few years of college work (absolute IQ scores are adjusted for age whereas SAT scores are of course not :))

 

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