<p>So I just took the Diagnostic Test for Barron's PSAT 12th Ed. and I got these scores:</p>
<p>CR: 39/50 (Good)
M: 36/40 (Very Good)
W: 27/39 (Good)</p>
<p>I'm just really disturbed about how low these are .. especially since I got a 213 on CollegeBoard's Practice PSAT 2008 and a 215 on the old 2005 PSAT (Sat. version).</p>
<p>Anyone else on the same boat? :O</p>
<p>The real PSAT has each section out of 80, not 50/40/39.
I think you have to add your score up and multiply by somenumber or something.</p>
<p>Yea, but it's just that the Barron's book doesn't give a numerical conversion to a score out of 80, so I just wrote the # I got right/ # total. And then the "Very Good/Good" was the rating system Barrons had.</p>
<p>Barron's tends to be harder for the SAT so it's probably harder for the PSAT too.</p>
<p>a) Don't buy Barron's anything
b) Don't buy PSAT anything
c) Don't take any practice tests that aren't CB's
d) DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT under any circumstances combine a, b, and c.</p>
<p>...Epic fail ^.^</p>
<p>Epic fail?? I always thought Barron's was good because it is generally harder than any other prep book out there.</p>
<p>Hard does not equal helpful. Barron's, like all other unofficial practice tests, are different from the real thing. Also, Barron's prep books just aren't very good. Same with PR, Kaplan, McGraw. . . basically anything that isn't Rocket Review, Maximum SAT, or Gruber's.</p>
<p>Maybe not for the SAT, but Barron's is what gave me a 780 on two subject tests and a 5 on AP Chem. </p>
<p>I do like Gruber's SAT CR advice. I got a 725 on CR after following Gruber's advice/tips although that was on one PR SAT test, so I don't know if that counts for anything.</p>
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I got a 725 on CR after following Gruber's advice/tips although that was on one PR SAT test, so I don't know if that counts for anything.
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I don't think its possible to get a 725..lol</p>
<p>meadow: lol, sorry I was talking about PR's SAT book.</p>
<p>i agree..Barron's= a big no-no</p>