The SAT is the most popular standardized test used for admission into colleges and universities in the United States. First started in 1941 as the Scholastic Aptitude Test as an IQ test, the SAT Reasoning Test of today has earned a place in every college going student's life. Oddly enough SAT no longer stands for anything; rather than deal with controversial acronyms, The College Board sidesteps the issue by not having SAT actually be an acronym.
Students should be careful in taking the SAT multiple times, as the College Board will send ALL previous scores to these universities. For this reason, students should not take the SAT more than 3 times total, and should be careful to study between these tests to make sure each successive score report shows an improvement over the previous. There is an advantage to taking the test more than once, however, as many universities will combine the highest score for each of the sections across multiple test dates. For example, if you score 650 on the Critical Reading, 600 on the Math, and 650 on the Writing section the first time you took the SAT and 680 on the Critical Reading, 580 on the Math, and 660 on the Writing section many colleges will consider your total score to be the 680 for Critical Reading from the second time you took the SAT, the 600 for Math from your first SAT, and the 650 from your first SAT for the Writing Section.
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