<p>I took PSAT last year as sophmore and I wanted the scholarship so I studied until my Junior PSAT which was last October. I knew I was going to get the scholarship because I was getting 220+ on the previously administered practice tests that I ordered from Collegeboard.com from 2003-2006. </p>
<p>However, I had to take the Alternate form of the test because my school "accidentally ordered the wrong form" and ordered PSAT for Wednesday but was planning on it for Saturday. I knew I did great though.</p>
<p>When the PSAT score did come couple days ago, my score was very surprising.</p>
<p>70 CR (somewhat expected)
76 MT (I was almost sure I got 80)
59 WR (totally out of range since I was getting 75+ on practice tests)</p>
<p>I know that writing curves for this year has been rough for Wednesday and Saturday test, but I don't know about the alternate test but I doubt I missed that many.</p>
<p>The worst thing about this was that I wasn't able to get the answers I inputed or the test booklet since Collegeboard says the test can't be realeased to to "security" reasons. </p>
<p>I have heard many people on this forum say that they had scantron mistakes on the tests so it may be very possible that my case could be a bad case of scantron failure. ( I have also heard about catastrophic disasters on Collegeboard's part in the recent past)</p>
<p>Collegeboard is being anal about it saying that there is no way to check it (or hand verify it) because I took the alternate test and keep repeating "Computers read what you write". I am very frustrated because this is no way my fault that I had to take the alternate test. </p>
<p>Almost all of the juniors from my school that I’ve talked to got much lower writing scores than they anticipated, even after the harsher curve this year. The only person who did fairly well on it actually bubbled in her name for the writing section. They took the actual Saturday test, but I’ve been wondering since they got their scores if there wasn’t some grading error. In the broader spectrum, my school always has a handful of National Merit Semifinalists, but not one person this year scored over 190, and I highly doubt that Wyoming’s cut-off dropped 10 points. It just seems so weird to me…</p>
<p>According to my reading, they are supposed to keep the test booklet at your school. I would suggest that you speak to your GC to see if they don’t have the test booklet.</p>
<p>Additionally, once they allow you to see your results in QuickStart, that should also contain the test questions and your given answers. (I know that because I was one of the people who saw them online before Collegeboard took them down.)</p>
<p>if it was a result of you taking the alternate test then your score would be a LOT lower. You probably either misbubbled or just didnt do as well as you thought.</p>
<p>I took the Wednesday test, and I really thought they graded one wrong (They said I put 2, when right answer was 2.5). I got my actual test booklet from my counselor (he told us to come get them), and I saw that I had written 2.5 under the question (with intentions to fill that in on the grid-in). My counselor didn’t have the actual answer sheets that were graded though, so I called Collegeboard. The representative said that I could get my answer sheet for $10, but I couldn’t get a regrade no matter what, so I decided to forget about it. </p>
<p>i know! i got a 75 on writing, and i got one question wrong. but i was certain that i bubbled in E for it, cuz that’s what i circled on the booklet and i usually don’t fill in wrong answers by mistake. so i thought it was weird</p>