<p>I'm currently a junior in Texas, and last year, when I took the PSAT, I recieved a 204. However, my SAT score is now a 2140...do you think my PSAT score could have gotten higher? I've been working on my math a lot. </p>
<p>How much difference is there usualy between juniors and sophomores scores?</p>
<p>Well, your PSAT score will most likely reflect your current SAT score.</p>
<p>So I’ll have around a 214?</p>
<p>It depends, really. But you should be scoring closer to a 214 than a 204.</p>
<p>If you have been studying effectively, then your score might show that. I think just depending on cutting off the least significant digit from the SAT is too simplistic. </p>
<p>My daughter took the SAT twice about 6 months apart. She has a 200+ increase in points. Actually, we were not quite sure why the first one was so low, but by the time the second one came around, she was just more comfortable. </p>
<p>BTW, she took the PSAT and the SAT the same week. She thought studying for the SAT made the PSAT pretty trivial. </p>
<p>She got a 237 on the PSAT - she missed 2 questions. A friend also missed 2 questions, and got a 233. The reason the friends score was lower was that she missed those two questions in the same section.</p>
<p>Thank you! Did she take the PSAT two years?</p>
<p>My PSAT went from a 181 to a 202 to a 230 with no real hardcore prep… I just matured intellectually I guess. </p>
<p>Don’t expect as large of a jump, but simply from going to school and growing older, you will do better junior year.</p>
<p>Both of my sons increased their PSATs by about 30-40 points between soph and junior years.</p>
<p>One of son’s classmates increased his PSAT by 55 points…just enough to make NMSF.</p>
<p>That would put me around a 234…hopefully I can do that. I’ve been taking prep classes and I also think stamina is a big thing…
I always tended to score lower at the end just because it was such a long test.</p>
<p>My son had a ten-point increase from sophomore to junior PSAT. He got a 214 in junior year and his SAT that same year was 2230. We were always reminded by the college counselor of their school that the SATs were curriculum based so the longer the student has been in school, the better the chances his SAT scores would be higher. I thought it made sense and was true even for my son’s ACT.</p>
<p>Mom2college kids, that is incredible. Mind sharing some tips?</p>
<p>formykids- yeah that’s what i think, because a lot of the math stuff we ended up learning later in the year.</p>
<p>I went from a 175 on my PSAT sophomore year to a 219 junior year. That equates to a 44 point jump.</p>
<p>Dang. did you take a prep course?</p>
<p>My daughter’s PSAT score increased by 20 points from sophomore to junior year. She didn’t take the SAT until January of her junior year. She also scored a 204 sophomore year and she didn’t do any prep for the junior one. I think that extra year does a lot for you.</p>
<p>My score jumped from 184 my sophomore year to 218 my junior year, and many of the NMSFs at my school had similar jumps as well. The cutoff for semis in Texas has been around 216 for the past few years, so I think you definitely have a chance. I know I wasn’t expecting to be a semi-finalist or anything, but that extra year of experience and preparation helps quite a bit for most.</p>
<p>Great, thank you! I’m becoming more confident.</p>
<p>I went from 189 to 216. But I live in the Midwest and am hardly familiar with the SAT, so I didn’t study or anything…</p>
<p>Fwiw, I went from 189 as a freshman to 218 as a sophomore with limited (i.e. 0) studying. This doesn’t exactly answer your question, but I’m sure I can provide a better answer in a few months once I get my junior year PSAT results back.</p>
<p>Hopefully that happens to me too. I know it’s usually an upward trend, but I do know of some poeple who’s scores regressed. ):</p>