<p>I scored the following on this year's PSAT:</p>
<p>CR: 66
M: 60
W: 63</p>
<p>Total: 189
Percentile: 92</p>
<p>Considering the following:
-I am a junior
-This is the 1st time I've taken the PSAT
-I did not study prior to this assessment,</p>
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<li><p>What are your thoughts about these scores in terms of my chances improving for the actual SAT?</p></li>
<li><p>How do you convert the PSAT scores to an approximate SAT score?</p></li>
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<p>I thought students were only able to take the PSAT once. But that’s besides the point.</p>
<p>Those are good scores! But in my school we found that the PSAT was a poor indicator of what our SAT scores will be. If you failed the PSAT, you’re more likely to fail the SAT. But a 92 percentile might not transfer to the actual thing. Considering the amount of people who take the PSAT and those that take the SAT. </p>
<p>The PSAT is considerably shorter, and for some people, the long hours take their toll. You can definitely improve! Practice with full-length tests (they have those available on CB)</p>
<p>I wouldn’t think a conversion PSAT–> SAT is at all accurate. Good luck!</p>
<p>There are many threads about how PSAT translates to the SAT. Quite a few students find that their scores increase substantially, especially if they did no prep for the PSAT but prepped for the SAT.</p>
<p>You can roughly convert the PSAT scores by adding a zero. So your equivalent SAT would be 1890.</p>
<p>You can take the PSAT more than once–in many schools sophomores and even freshmen also take it. But the only time it really “counts” is in the junior year–those are the scores that are used to determine National Merit status.</p>