Are SATs for juniors or sophomores??

Dont waste money doing it as a Sophomore… if you did that youd might as well take it as a Freshmen or even in the sixth grade, for that matter.

Take it late enough so that you can get your results back just early enough to apply for colleges. But take it as late as possible.

Even though you can brag the rest of your life about what your scored… if you take it too early before your education is in full, you might only have some score to be ashamed of, instead.

Id recommend taking it when youre as done with school as possible, so that your education is fuller and your chances of a better score is increased.

If you take the test too early, it may even expire before college acceptance is possible. Those tests only have like two or three years expiration on them.

These tests are far too expensive to keep retaking.

I know eighth graders who take them… It’s ridiculous, but it basically means that they’re for anyone. A lot of freshmen take them in order to see what theyr’e going to be up to in their sophomore and junior years and so they know what to expect from the test. Because a ridiculous amount of your future is based on standardized testing it’s best to take them once to get a feeling for them and then take an SAT course for a semester in hopes of raising your scores.

Overall, I’d say they’re for sophomores *and* juniors (and some seniors with procrastination problems). A lot of sophomores put it off, too, saying they don’t need to take them until their junior or senior years and then they get low scores and don’t have many more opportunities to get them up.

SATs are “for” anyone as early as middle school through certain talent programs that allow early attempts for high achievers.

Yet with the high cost (41.50 plus any extra service fees) and the need to take the test 3 or fewer times, it makes sense to test in the spring of junior year and then once more (or twice more, if necessary) in the fall of senior year before college applications are due.

Most students have covered the material tested on the SAT Reasoning Test by the end of sophomore year, and testing early lets you focus on more important activities/frees up time to test for the SAT IIs/ensures you make your college app deadlines (some are as early as October although Nov 1st is the typical early admissions deadline).

Take practice tests in sophomore year to gauge how much work you need to do (plus, these don’t cost as much and don’t go on your official record).

Essentially it depends on how well you can do on the SAT and what your goals are in terms of which universities you want to attend.

I am entering Harvard in the fall and have started an online SAT prep program at INeedAPencil.com so please let me know if you have further questions.

Best of luck,

Jason

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I took the PSAT when I was a sophomore in high school, and took the SAT near the end of my junior year and at the beginning of my senior year. I also took the SAT II near the end of my junior year.

Juniors and Seniors. Sophomores take the PSAT.

Juniors, but if you have the means to take it as a sophomore go for it.

Juniors and Seniors

Juniors take it during the late Winter or Spring. Technically, you can take it no matter what year you are. But you shoudln’t take it until you are a junior–then you will score higher.

You can technically take them any time–in fact, talent search programs require that applicants take them in seventh or eighth grade. However, juniors and seniors typically take them.

juniors and seniors