<p>yeah i really hope so…</p>
<p>the curve for writing was pretty brutal, i got a 70 for -2
do you know when we find out the cutoffs?</p>
<p>Is it just me, or were there 40 questions on the writing section instead of 39?
Did they choose to not incorperate a question and throw it out?</p>
<p>^ Good question olleger. I actually remember that there were 40 questions… odd.</p>
<p>And on every practice test… 40 writing questions. Is this customary to throw one out and possibly this leads to such harsh curves?</p>
<p>I can’t access College QuickStart for this year, even though I have an access code… the site automatically directs to my scores from last year. Does anyone know where to put in my new access code?</p>
<p>Yea, PSAT results are out. Maybe not mailed to houses, but my school as well as another houston school got results today. I got the highest in my little school of 400.</p>
<p>222 :]</p>
<p>72CR
70MA
80WR</p>
<p>Hollah! Guess the “explanation of” was no error B-)</p>
<p>Still haven’t gotten my results yet. A school right down the street got their’s last week. ■■■.</p>
<p>“Silverturtle: You are over thinking the problem. Just because explanation for could be correct does not mean that explanation of is incorrect. Based on directions for taking the test, it is only the correct choice if it is wrong, and becuase it is not wrong, no error is the better choice.”</p>
<p>nmsfsat, you clearly have not thoughtfully considered my previous response to this objection. I’ll repost it:</p>
<p>“There is a point when an overwhelming body of evidence can prove to a nonscientific but otherwise satisfying degree that something is wrong. It’s impossible for me to prove them wrong beyond a shadow of a doubt. If that’s the standard of proof, the College Board would win every single dispute on a supposedly nonerroneous error-identification question.”</p>
<p>and</p>
<p>"Let’s say I want to know how to spell a word. Someone tells me that this word has multiple spellings. I believe them. When I see this word on a spelling test, I feel comfortable in picking the spelling that looked somewhat unfamiliar to me because I had been told that there were alternate ways to spell the word.</p>
<p>But another test-taker who wasn’t under the impression that there were multiple spellings to a word finds the question problematic and disputes it, claming that the correct spelling did not appear on the test. </p>
<p>He researches for hours, eventually examining sixteen dictionaries. None of these show an alternative spelling for the word. He sends in his dispute, citing all of these sources and the uniform absence of the alternative spelling. The testing company denies his appeal, saying that he had only proved he was right; he hadn’t proved that the testing company was wrong.</p>
<p>Is he to be expected to find an entry in a reputable source that spells out every incorrect spelling of the word? No, such is impossible. Should the crafting of the question render it infallible? No."</p>
<p>convexity, that sentence is the closest thing yet to evidence in the College Board’s favor. I have two problems with it, however:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>It’s from the ninteenth century. Usage changes over time. </p></li>
<li><p>I have search for the original text in vain thusfar. Context would help. As it stands, the meaning is ambiguous. </p></li>
</ul>
<p>“Although I acknowledge that this example is not as clear as it could be, the usage of ‘explanation of’ in the underlined sentence suggests that the use of the phrase is not entirely incorrect.”</p>
<p>Because the intention is unclear, the example does not suggest anything. Just as I won’t offer an ambiguous usage of “explanation for” in support of my position, so I hope that this ambiguous and outdated example is not used in support of the College Board’s position. </p>
<p>I’m still open to considering anyone’s findings that seem to support the College Board’s caimed usage of “explanation of.” </p>
<p>So far (this is highly approximate as I haven’t carefully tallied it in a while), I have amassed about 25 uses of “explanation of,” of which about twenty have clear context. Of these, 100% (20/20) support my position. I have found about 15 uses of “explanation for,” all of which have clear context. Of these, 100% (15/15) support my position. Beyond these citations gathered from irrefutably reputable sources, the top five hits on Google.com for “explanation of” and “explanation for” uniformly support my position (these are largely from scientific articles and new stories).</p>
<p>Still no scores for me yet.</p>
<p>Got ours today</p>
<p>CR: 7 wrong, 0 omitted 670
M: 1 wrong, 1 omitted 750
WR: 5 wrong, 0 omitted 650</p>
<p>Total Score: 207, 98th percentile</p>
<p>breakdown:
76 reading
72 math (T_____T stupid mistakes)
75 writing (CURVE WAS SO UNFORGIVING)
total: 223 99th percentile holllaaaa</p>
<p>Guidance counselor allowed me a sneak peak today…</p>
<p>CR: 74
M: 67
WR: 68</p>
<p>total score: 209. Pretty happy (I’m a sophomore), except that i missed the 210 mark by 1 point >: (</p>
<p>@scrivener, it’s ok! :] and its cool how you and your counselor are so tight as to him/her letting you a sneak peek 
haha</p>
<p>btw does anyone know what the cutoff is for the NMSQT thing?</p>
<p>if you get 99th percentile nationally is there still a chance where you might not get 99th percentile in your state?</p>
<p>yes i missed it by only one point also</p>
<p>Wish me luck, I think I’m getting my scores tomorrow…</p>
<p>Sorry to interrupt this scorring fest but does anyone have any ideas as to why the writing section is out of 39 as opposed to the actual number of questions (40).</p>
<p>I finally got my scores today…yes!</p>
<p>For a total of 229:
Critical Reading- 74 (miss 3)
Math- 75 (miss…2?!)
Writing- 80 (missed 0)</p>
<p>I am so mad. On CR I missed the first question…*** happened? And I thought I aced math?! It turns out I missed an easy multiple choice one and an easy grid-in…fail lol. Ah well. You get what you got, I guess?</p>
<p>And I go to a public school, am a freshman this year, and scored 99th percentile if anyone cares lol.</p>
<p>there are only 39 questions</p>