<p>So I just took that practice PSAT CB sends out to Sophs/Jrs every year. And I was wondering what others got & general opinions? Here were my scores:</p>
<p>M: 80
CR: 64
W: 69</p>
<p>What really frustrates me is that in Section 1 (CR), I changed 3 answers in the last minute and my original answers were correct!! Ahh if I hadn't changed these 3, I would've had a 71 in CR. D: Does anyone else have this issue? Who here never rechecks or changes their answers once they've written it down?</p>
<p>Also, I thought everything here was easier compared to the actual 2007 PSAT. I did terrible on that one (178 combined) and it didn't help that that math section had a question dealing with logical statements. ><</p>
<p>eh same. I think it was kinda easy. I had M:80, CR:63, W:66. Idk whether they made it easy to get ppl excited or that we’ve actually gotten better at this LOL.</p>
<p>KeepRolling, and I praying that the actual PSAT was as straightforward as this one! But I just remember last year’s PSAT being soo hard. I mean, I look back at it now and I still think it was harder than this practice one CB gave.</p>
<p>hm i remember CR being really hard.. Math was hard cuz i didnt know geometry… writing idk.
Let’s just hope that this year’s is as even as the official practice test.</p>
<p>It did seem really easy, but I still didn’t reach my goal.</p>
<p>CR: 60
M:76
W:65</p>
<p>According to the list on the other post, I have to get at least 215 to be considered a semifinalist for my state. Do you guys have any suggestions to raise my psat score 15-20 points?</p>
<p>Math is usually the easiest to improve, but you’re pretty good there Just try to avoid stupid mistakes.</p>
<p>In CR, read the question, think of your own answer, THEN look at the choices. It can help a lot.</p>
<p>In W, pay attention to idioms!!! So many people miss them. Also pay attention to subject-verb agreement ( like number 27, where “have” should be “had”, because the subject is singular). </p>
<p>All in all, try to go over your answers again to check for stupid mistakes.</p>
<p>book_worm, you have an impressive score! Do you recall what you got on last year’s PSAT or the range of it? Just curious .. And I agree with your advice on Writing - I got an idiom question wrong, but I’ve been pretty good about trying to find idioms and whatnot and correcting them.</p>
<p>So is it too much to hope for that the real PSAT will be this easy?</p>
<p>^I bought a bunch of the PSATs 2005-2007 (wednesday and saturday versions) and did all of them. The practice PSAT that they give out is a recycled PSAT from 2005 or 2006 I believe. But I found that all of the PSATs were relatively the same in difficulty so you should expect something of the same on your upcoming PSAT.</p>
<p>I took the real 2005 PSAT (Saturday version) that my brother used a few days ago and got similar scores to the practice PSAT CB gave out this year. On that test I got:</p>
<p>M: 76
CR: 65
W: 80 (though I could sort of see my brother’s answer marks on 1/3 of them .. xx;; )</p>
<p>But I’m just worried because on this yr’s practice PSAT test, I could have gotten a 71 in CR whereas in the 2005 PSAT, I lost points because I got 5 questions wrong in vocab..</p>
<p>great! i need to learn some vocab asap! and work on writing. Writing is ridiculous.. it’s not THAT hard but if u miss like 5 questions.. ure already at a 660ish >_></p>
<p>I’m going to be dead if this year’s PSAT is anything like last year’s .. they threw in a stupid logical statement question for Math, and I did terribly in CR & W for some reason. At least my last 2 tests have been somewhat decent..</p>
<p>I’m kind of surprised. I always thought writing was my strongest point and so i havent been prepping it nearly as rigorously as my other subjects… and i ended up not seeing a lot of things/ making careless mistakes… i guess i should start studying my writing more.</p>
<p>Yet, mind sharing any tips or techniques you use for CR and/or writing? I’m especially in need of vocab tips (like what to do when you can only eliminate one of the answer choices - do you look at roots or prefixes first? etc.) and any CR tips on reading passages.</p>
Just try to avoid stupid mistakes.</p>