{"id":4915,"date":"2016-01-14t09:45:57","date_gmt":"2016-01-14t17:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/?p=4915"},"modified":"2021-01-06t15:25:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06t23:25:38","slug":"what-is-a-good-sat-score-for-a-junior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/sat\/what-is-a-good-sat-score-for-a-junior\/","title":{"rendered":"what is a good sat score for a junior?"},"content":{"rendered":"

this is a question i get a lot from parents wondering whether their child should take the sat as a junior or wait until senior year. <\/p>\n

their thinking is that if the student does well enough on the sat for a junior, then they don\u2019t have to worry about taking the sat as a senior. the thing is: colleges don\u2019t give preferential treatment to those who take the sat at a younger age. you can take the sat in 6th<\/sup> grade, get an 1800, and then never take the sat again. that 1800 isn\u2019t any different from a senior\u2019s 1800.
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good junior year sat score<\/h2>\n

so the real question, then, is what is a good sat score<\/a><\/strong>?<\/p>\n

yet, it might not be quite so simple. given that, at least on average, students become more intellectually mature in an extra year of schooling–vocabularies enlarge, a sense of proper grammar becomes more fine-tuned, the ability to concentrate through dense increases slightly–a senior might expect to see a 50-point increase in an sat score. that might not seem like much, but going from a 1950 to a 2000 does look like a big deal on paper.<\/p>\n

provided that you continue to pay attention in school and you continue to do some sat prep in your spare time, you will probably do a little bit better as senior, but not by too much. <\/p>\n

a good sat score for a junior, therefore, is about 50 points less than what a good sat score is for a senior.<\/strong> as to what a good sat score is for senior? well, that is a little more difficult to answer. it depends on the schools you are applying to, your current gpa, on a host of other factors, such as your essay or extracurricular activities. 1800 is a pretty good score; 2000 is clearly a good score and 2100+ is a great score. <\/p>\n

if you are a junior and you have enough time to study, then getting close to 2000 is a good score.<\/p>\n

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this is a question i get a lot from parents wondering whether their child should take the sat as a junior or wait until senior year. the thing is, colleges don\u2019t give preferential treatment to those who take the sat at a younger age. a junior’s 1800 isn\u2019t any different from a senior\u2019s 1800. let’s get specific…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[24882],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nwhat is a good sat score for a junior? - magoosh blog | high school<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"a good sat score for a junior isn't any different than a good score for a sophomore or senior. a "good score" depends on the student's college ambitions.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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