<p>^cool man. Would they lower scores who initially got it right?</p>
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<p>I do not expect so: the historical practice has been to just drop flawed questions, thereby increasing some students’ scores and not affecting others’.</p>
<p>190… before I started studying for the SAT.</p>
<p>So, we’ll see what I get on the actual SAT.</p>
<p>Hey I got 200 on the PSAT and after studying for a total of approx. 20 hours I’m score 2320. Not too bad. Studying does help (especially Direct Hits).</p>
<p>Petition denied.</p>
<p>A PSAT writer from ETS replied on behalf of a team that reviewed my argument. He wrote that although “for” is commonly used succeeding “explanation” when the reason for something is being indicated, using “for” is merely a stylistic preference and that “of” is also grammatical.</p>
<p>Sorry to hear about your petition silverturtle, it was a good effort…</p>
<p>have you looked at and/or analyzed the state summary reports that were recently released?</p>
<p>^ No. Do you have a link?</p>
<p>Yes, here it is:</p>
<p>[College-Bound</a> Juniors 2009 - PSAT/NMSQT](<a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/data-reports-research/psat/cb-jr-soph/juniors]College-Bound”>SAT Suite of Assessments – Reports | College Board)</p>
<p>That’s too bad that the petition was denied. I feel like the explanation they provided is vague and unsupported by the plethora of evidence you submitted, silverturtle. It is particularly frustrating for me, because I am on the verge of the qualifying score for my state. </p>
<p>Quick question: You are deducted .25 points for every mutliple choice question answered incorrectly. Is it CB’s practice to round upwards? Last year I missed three questions in a particular section (-.75) but a point was not deducted. This year, the same thing happened (-.75), yet a full point was taken away. Could someone please explain?</p>
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<p>.5 rounds in your favor; .75 does not. Perhaps you are inaccurately recalling the result was last year, or one of them was a free-response question.</p>
<p>So silverturtle, do you think analyzing the 2009 state summaries in comparison to last years reports would shed any accurate light on the cutoffs for this year?</p>
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<p>Yes, an analysis probably would yield a good estimate.</p>
<p>Statistically, does a smaller number of taker yield a higher mean score? For example, in Florida, 3000 less people took the test this year. The mean score for CR went up by .6, M down by .3, and W up by .3…yielding a net rise of .6</p>
<p>Did scores generally go down this year? Specifically South Carolina…I’m really close to the cutoff…</p>
<p>I believe that scores did go down (in general) from last year. My state (Virginia) has slightly fewer high scorers than last year. </p>
<p>I checked South Carolina and scores are indeed down for all subjects. However, the opposite trend is witnessed in North Carolina…</p>
<p>^ It looks like that states who had less test takers than last year (i.e. FL and NC) saw a slight upward trend in mean scores, while states with more takers (i.e VA and SC) saw a downward trend. </p>
<p>Statistically though, these increases and decreases may not mean much as far as cutoff fluctuation, since the smaller or larger pools may be the primary determinant for these differences. Also, if less people got in the 20-29 range, the mean score would go up, but the high end scores wouldn’t necessarily be affected.</p>
<p>So if you were to give your best guess, would you say the SC cutoff would go up or down (or for that matter stay the same) this year? Thanks for the quick answers.</p>
<p>Oh god…Is anyone else getting inundated with college e-mails for making some sort of PSAT list? They won’t stop coming. Now I kind of regret putting down my e-mail address!</p>
<p>@monstor344, yes… sadly.</p>
<p>Hey everyone, how “good” are the colleges that are sending you e-mails/mails? I’ve gotten a few from “good” schools like Columbia, Northwestern, Wash U in St. Louis, etc. but a lot are from local state schools.</p>
<p>Chicago, wustl, northwestern, columbia, williams, wesleyan, swarthmore, and a bunch of lesser known lac/state schools (same as you basically). The lesser ones tend to advertise with something like “you are part of a select group of students…” or “your achievements are impressive…”</p>