The sentence is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to express the goal of doing something (e.g. a game or test) with the intention of earning a high grade or score. For example: "I'm determined to achieve a high score on my upcoming exam."
Movies based on video games have always struggled to achieve a high score with critics.
Are we happier if our teenagers achieve a high score or a low score?
To achieve a high score, both the car and the child restraint had to perform well.
Think about it: if you can just manage to keep the ball in play, you will achieve a high score in every aspect of living.
By Laura Parker August 2, 2013 The critic Roger Ebert once drew a crucial distinction between video games and art: he said that the ultimate objective of a video game — unlike that of a book, film, or poem — is to achieve a high score, vaporize falling blocks, or save the princess.
The critic Roger Ebert once drew a crucial distinction between video games and art: he said that the ultimate objective of a video game — unlike that of a book, film, or poem — is to achieve a high score, vaporize falling blocks, or save the princess.
In contrast, those who completed the face-to-face tasks first may have hoped to achieve a higher score on the subsequent computer-delivered tasks, but may not have strived for better performance since there was no reaction from the computer.
The Adventure Company has marketed the system as bringing a degree of replay value to Voyage, as players can replay the game to achieve a higher score.
Risk-taking decision-making involves resisting the habitual selection of a safe response (+20 trials) in order to achieve a higher score.
Depending on whether an alignment to the reference genome matches far enough past a large indel for an extended alignment including both sides to achieve a higher score, different reads that overlap the same genomic site may be reported as two separate alignments or a single alignment with gaps.
