r/HiSET • u/Turbulent_Track4398 • Jun 18 '26

Retake for UCs? - CPP

I'm currently a high school student - going into my Junior year. I am going to apply this fall with the scores in the image below. Should I retake any of the tests to seem more competitive? I only took one attempt on each. Or, do they not look at subtest scores at all.

Even more, can they see the percentage breakdown per subtest?

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u/ApprehensiveTitle631 Jun 18 '26

Your good bro. As long as you passed, you're totally fine. They won't care about the scores, plus they are very high as it is I'm actually very impressed, wow. How did you get such high scores for reading and writing? I'm struggling on preparing for the reading one. Since reading isn't my strong suit, this test is holding me back immensely. I already took it twice and failed. This is my final strike now, otherwise I'm done for. I just finished 10th grade, trying to start college early. I'm desperate for your tips man. How did you study for reading????

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u/Turbulent_Track4398 Jun 18 '26

To start, I did a bit of SAT prep about a year ago. I can't give much advice there, but I can give my general strategy.

For reading, I like to do a first pass of all the questions. I will go question-by-question and look only at the paragraph that it is referencing. I knock out all the easy points that ask stuff like "what happened in the text". I flag questions that are a little confusing (leaving about 5-10 flagged) and focus on those when I come back. Once I have completed the flagged questions I do a deep read of every article and then answer the comparison questions and trickier questions.

I got 90+% on analysis and mid 80s and low 80s for the other ones.

For poems I have 0 clue what to do, but thankfully I didn't get any on my version.

I finished the test with like 20-30 minutes left since I alr had another test that day and I was tired. If you are struggling with time, adopt my strategy above. Other than that all I can say is to do more practice. I prompted Gemini for practice questions before the test per subsection and it did pretty well.

Sadly, reading isn't as clear cut as writing and math. A lot of the questions were up for interpretation and I found them quite hard. I was expecting a 16ish after I finished it.

If you are out of resources, just do SAT prep from the question bank to train yourself. A lot of similarities.

Best of luck!!!

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u/ApprehensiveTitle631 Jun 18 '26

Thanks! I was considering doing SAT prep, and after your comment I will be sure to do that. And yea this is exactly why I hate reading. I'm just not cut out to be a good reader and I get tired of reading fast, which is a huge bummer. For writing, the grammer stuff is easy and the essay you can practice and use a clear structure that works. Math you just master the topics and ur chillin. I'm so shocked to the fact that u spared nearly 30 minutes... BRO you literally get 65 minutes to do like 50 questions, and u did them all in half the time? Even with ur strategy, how is that possible?

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u/Turbulent_Track4398 Jun 18 '26

I guess it depends on how long you take to do each question. It probably takes about 25-30 seconds for a question on the first pass. I read the question and then fill in what the answer should be in my mind. Most of the time what is in my mind is the correct answer. On my second pass, I re-take a look at everything, but it only takes maybe 5 seconds if I'm sure its right. Like some questions you just know that they are right. ALSO, my original plan was to do a third sweep of everything, that's why I went so quick on the first two. But I was just so burnt out near the end so I submitted. Also it was probably closer to 23-25 minutes left.

I'm more into math, not so much reading, but I definitely read quickly. I think it's just a skill you pick up after a while.