Students are not permitted to go back and continue working on previous sections during a real SAT. In fact, if students are caught doing so, the test administrator is obligated to take their tests and expell them.

While you might encounter a supervisor who doesn’t care, you should not not disregard test-day instructions. Breaking the rules is a form of cheating and, by the way, there is nothing to stop another student from reporting such behavior.

BTW, back to the SAT, is it allowed to go back and continue any of the previous sections on a real SAT test when a person has the spare time in the current section?

I ask this because one SAT taker told me that the test supervisor didn’t really care, as long as every one put down the pencil when the time is up.

I lot of applicants with perfect SAT scores get turned away by schools like Princeton every year. I am not trying to discourage you, I am simply trying to provide you with a realistic perspective.

The best way to get into a top-tier school is to (i) earn good grades and high test scores and (ii) excel in one or two extracurricular activities. Good grades and high test scores will show that you are prepared to do college-level work and distinction in an extracurricular activity will show that you understand the level of commitment that is required to truly excel at something.

I suspect that most American colleges require applications to be competed, in their entirety, in English. I further suspect, however, that it cannot hurt to ask a particular college whether it is permissible to submit a letter of recommendation in Dutch or another language.

Below is a link to the video podcast on autopilot:

http://www.eprep.com/2006/07/30/autopilot-dont-set-a-course-for-a-lower-sat-score/

I hope it helps. Talk to you soon.

Have you overlooked my messages on
July 2nd, 2007 at 12:37 am
and
July 3rd, 2007 at 4:49 pm
again?

Best Regards

btw, I have asked about what “autopilot” is in SAT in another thread, but I couldn’t find it. May you tell me what that is?

thx in advance

Sorry for this redundant message, but I would like to know you didn’t respond to my previous two messages either because you overlooked them or you simply felt that I asked too much, since I saw you have already responded to several others today on this website, but not mine.

Best Regards

I now have another question to ask. Although there are quite a handful of good universities in USA to select from, yet I don’t have a clue which ones are suitable for me because fundamentally, I have no idea about my chance of being accepted in any one of them. Of course, I aim to apply for the universties of the best caliber in the fields I would like to study, but on the other hand, I do not want to, for example, apply for 10 of them and be turned down by all of them. So, could you tell me, for example, just how hard the matriculation into Princeton is? I know that each case is different, but I think there must be some basic bottomlines. Could you shed some light on this issue? (from the perspective of an IB candidate if possible as there is no real life example in my school).

thanks in advance

If I were you, I would get an after-school job, earn some money, and take the TOEFL. While some schools may not require you to submit TOEFL scores, they will allow you to add such scores to your application file. The bottom line is that, if you can score high on the TOEFL, your scores will only improve your chances of being admitted at an American college or university.

I understand that $155 is a significant amount of money, but I can honestly tell you that I have never regretted sacrificing to make investments in my own education. (Who knows, you might even be able to write a compelling college essay about how you worked an after school job to help fund your own education.)

Thanks for your response and I will be waiting for your answer.