Calculating SI for this year's (October 2016, class of 2018) PSAT

Paying for College National Merit Aid
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Not sure if I’m missing something or if the numbers have changed again. For this month’s PSAT, the practice book has four sections, with 47+44+17+31 questions. Is the SI just the sum of the four sections, counting number correct, times two? That would make the “perfect” SI 129x2=258, which seems way out of whack for qualifying SIs being ~223.

Or is THIS actually the year that the big changes happen, and the scores in the 700s are the ones that will count, and we just have no way of knowing what the cutoffs might be?

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Okay, I think I’ve answered by own question. The chart for converting raw score to the 8-38 scale used for the SI for the two English sections is on page 7 of https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/pdf/scoring-psat-nmsqt-practice-test-2.pdf and then one doubles the two English subscores and adds the math/10.

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There were enough big changes last year to last for a long, long time. Hopefully you guys will be spared the 9-12 month drama that was the rollout of the revised PSAT/NMSQT