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Okay, I am a potential biochemistry major.

My SAT I Score is 700M 800V

I just did the Math IIC, and I did way worse than I expected. I went too slowly through the very easy first half, then once I got to the harder questions I ran out of time. I omitted a whopping 10 questions. All the ones I did do, however, are probably right. Allowing for two or three careless errors, I'm expecting something like a 720. I'm not cancelling my scores because I aced Spanish.

This is horrible. I'm a good math student, but I have never been able to score well in a standardized test setting. I am applying EA to a certain college, but I want to up one of my scores. Which one?

By Astrix (Astrix) on Saturday, October 09, 2004 - 05:14 am: Edit

That's just what I did in Physics

By Tallyrand (Tallyrand) on Saturday, October 09, 2004 - 11:10 pm: Edit

Eh...this thread is sinking.

Bump.

By Tangerine (Tangerine) on Saturday, October 09, 2004 - 11:27 pm: Edit

Well I'd say you're better off in mathIIC than I am...I am absolutely horrible at taking math standardized tests. I think I omitted about 20--and I got some wrong too. You can miss a lot on the IIC and still get in the upper 700s (but of course not 20 like I did). How many times have you taken the SAT? If you've already taken it 3 times then I wouldn't take it again--and you have a great score anyways.

By Dotcommie (Dotcommie) on Sunday, October 10, 2004 - 12:03 am: Edit

No worries. I skipped 7 or 8 questions, and probably got a lot wrong (I took it after taking BC Calc, so I didn't really remember the pre-calc and I got it all confused with the new material I had learned), and I got a 760 on it. The curve on the 2c rules.

By Amybronte (Amybronte) on Sunday, October 10, 2004 - 02:48 pm: Edit

Tallyrand, I got the exact same SAT score you did, and for the same reasons. I set too slow of a pace for the easy math questions and get screwed. The first time I took the MATH IIc tests I didn't get to ten and got a bad score, I took the math IIC test this time, omitted 4, and missed 2-3, probably, because I had my own timer with me and only allowed myself a certain amount of time on each easy question.
So, retake the math IIC, if you get a bad score, because colleges will look more closely at the subject test, because the SAT I focuses more on the reasoning process than whether or not you know math well.