SAT on June 2? Here's some tips

forgot to add in about score choice and super score..

EPORTING SCORES SAT Score-Reporting Policy

Designed to reduce student stress and improve the test-day experience, Score Choice is a score-reporting feature that gives students the option to choose the SAT scores by test date and SAT Subject Test scores by individual test that they send to colleges, in accordance with each institution's individual score-use practice. http://professionals.collegeboard.com/testing/sat-reasoning/scores/poli…

Score choice gives students the opportunity to pick and choose the specific test dates for which they want to submit their SAT scores. For example, if a student took an SAT in January, March, and May, but only wants to submit her scores from January and May, she CAN!

HOWEVER (and this is a big however), individual colleges have their own policies about Score Choice and how they will use the scores that you submit. For instance, some schools require that you send ALL scores from ALL test dates while other schools have embraced the score choice policy. Before banking on using Score Choice, you’re going to want to check the policies of the schools you’re considering here. http://edgeincollegeprep.com/news/2011/06/10/score-choice-and-superscor…

SUPER SCORE\ Superscoring

Superscoring is when you take the highest score from each section of an exam. For example if you took the SAT twice and your scores were as follows:

January: Reading-540, Math-670, Writing-610

March: Reading-620, Math-580, Writing-620

You would then take the highest SECTION scores to make your superscore:

Reading: 620, Math-670, Writing-620

This is EXTREMELY beneficial for studen

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Seems like a great deal, right? You get a higher score than you would otherwise! SAT superscoring can be extremely helpful to students who take the SAT more than once (as most students should anyway).

However, the SAT superscore comes with a two-part disclaimer:

First of all – if you’re being superscored, so is everyone else that you’re competing with. So in the end, I’m not sure that anything has really changed – college admissions are just as competitive as they were before.

Second – not all colleges will superscore the SAT. Nowadays, many admissions offices WILL superscore and are most interested in your best performance on each section. They understand that test day is difficult and stressful and you aren’t always feeling your best.

After a bit of digging, I found a list of colleges (http://www.esatpreptips.com/sat-superscore-what-is-it/) that superscore the SAT, straight from the College Board. This list will give you an excellent idea of how each college will view your SAT scores from multiple test dates: .

One big warning: don’t just trust that list for important college decisions, because it may not be updated often enough. CALL or e-mail each college individually and ask what their SAT superscore practices are if you really want to know!

Also – just if you’re curious – some colleges also superscore your ACT exam; however, my early research seems to indicate that more colleges superscore the SAT than the ACT.