<p>my pSats were accurate</p>
<p>i think they should be accurate +- 70 pts total</p>
<p>Why don't you take some time off from studying the SAT?</p>
<p>I mean you have been studying this for a long time</p>
<p>Take a break and just read some more.</p>
<p>This has worked for some people. They take a break and chill out. THen, when they start prepping again, they start to actually do better.</p>
<p>Idk, just take a break.</p>
<p>The OSSG is not that accurate.</p>
<p>Alll my scores are from BLUE BOOK and other past PSAT tests.</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm taking a break. I'm not even going to take the real SAT until Sr year. I"ll do ACT this year.</p>
<p>PRINCETON REVIEW BOOK. DO IT.</p>
<p>College Board book isn't nearly as helpful.</p>
<p>My math score went from 570 - 730, and my Verbal from 660-750. I realized I wasn't "dumb," I just didn't know how to take the test efficiently, and the PR book really helps with that.</p>
<p>megaman123: well, I got 215 on PSATs (xD low, I know, but high enough to get me semifi at least) and 2160 on SATs my first run-through, so it was pretty accurate. But then I improved it by 100 my second time so you can probably assume you'll do better on SATs (especially with another year of practice).</p>
<p>Souy *** do you mean 215 is low? Yeah, that's real nice of you to come into a thread created by a frustrated student and talk about how a score high enough for National Merit Semi is LOW. Your post has been a lot of help to EVERYONE. Really.</p>
<p>v_v"</p>
<p>Okay, okay you guys. I've been avoiding PR this whole time on purpose. Perhaps I'll give it a chance when I start studying again.</p>
<p>quitejaded: It's low by my standards. I'm sorry that I can't conform to yours but I don't know how you expect me to know them. At some boards, my usuals, a 2160 SAT or a 215 PSAT score is nothing to brag about and practically not even worth mentioning. That's why I felt the need to defend my score. I'm sorry that it offended you.</p>
<p>And 215 is relatively low for a semifi, at least compared to the 222 needed to even qualify in several other states. As you can read, I was using it to compare the accuracy that PSATs have of predicting SAT scores. I didn't post it to cause you personal misery, as you seem to assume.</p>
<p>Don't be so high strung. Lighten up. Sure, it's college, but it's nothing to turn a mood sour over, especially if you're 16. Junior year's the best to enjoy high school without having to stress too much over college yet. Enjoy it while it lasts and don't let it get you down already because there'll be plenty of time for that later.</p>
<p>I'm talking about NORMAL standards. If 215 was LOW then you wouldn't get National Merit anything, you think? It IS worth mentioning because its high enough for that. Its people like you that give this place a bad name with other kids, IMO. 222 is like... California. Where they have the HIGHEST population and some of the Richest people not to mention all of the asians that live there (seriously, if you found the mode it'd be asian girls who score highest am i right? that's what i've read, heard and seen). </p>
<p>No. Junior year is the HARDEST year. Especially if you're IB. Sr. year is when you get to appreciate the highschool experience, I think.</p>
<p>I've been stressing because I would like some free money to a good college. I never used to worry because I planned on Utulsa, but Utulsa pulled itself out so now I'm worried.</p>
<p>You can be worried........I mean we all are.......but you don't have to be so rude.</p>
<p>I'm sorry if you thought I was rude. I thought he was rude first or atleast pretentious.</p>
<p>Actually, it's "she." And I don't think that just because you think someone else is being rude or pretentious that it's right to be rude back. How can you be sure, with only written communication like on a forum what a person's real emotions are? Show me how I've been pretentious, please. As for rude, you can probably find quite a bit of that towards the end of this post but I only have so much patience.</p>
<p>Junior year was hard but not unbearably so because you haven't gotten to the point that you feel done with high school. Senioritis, I think it's called. You're an upperclassman so you get those perks but you have kids older than you to mentor you for another year so you don't have quite as much responsibility weighing you down. You also don't have college apps to stress about and the twenty essays that come with them so that's a big plus.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, if you're college bound, I'm willing to bet senior year will be your hardest. Isn't it logical that school gets harder year after year? So your next round of classes, a level up from junior year, will be even harder.</p>
<p>As for "normal standards", that's so relative. It's affected by the area you live in, the school you go to, parents, friends, etc. I often hang out with fellow geeks. Sue me if my standards are a little high for myself. I don't compare others to my own personal standards; if I did, I'd be one cocky jerk and annoying as hell. I'd like to think I'm not, although you might disagree.</p>
<p>by the way, California is 216, I believe, it's one of the moderately high ones. 220+ states are NJ, Maryland, NY, and MA, I think. High population does squat for a higher selection index. More people means more smarter people but also more who drag down the average, so it mostly evens out. As for rich, I think we've gone over this. If anyone could buy themselves a truckload of prep books and get a 240, it wouldn't be a very good test, would it? Now, granted, there are some problems with the PSAT about winners extremely disproportionately dispersed among economic classes but still, it's at its base a test of aptitude, not about buying a grade.</p>
<p>Finally, the 215, it's my score; I think I can decide if I think it's worth mentioning. And what do you mean by "people like me that give this place a bad name"? How so? Because I'm ambitious or because I have high standards for myself? And how does that affect you? I don't believe my original comment was even directed towards you. Making that kind of broad comment needs more support than "IMO."</p>
<p>I'm sorry you're stressed over finances but that's no reason to take it out on a public forum. Practically everyone applying to college is going to stress over finances. Ask anyone here. You're not alone. Everyone would like free money to a good college. It's like wishing to win the lottery; who wouldn't want to?</p>
<p>As for your Asian girls stat from out of nowhere (I highly doubt you've read that from any credible source) Asian--specifically Chinese and Japanese cultures holds education in very high esteem. If American culture did that, you can bet it'd even out. Unfortunately, popular American culture seems to align against education and it's up to individual families or schools to realign their kids.</p>
<p>Anyway, why are you obsessed with this? My comments weren't directed towards you but you chose to attack me because of them. If you ask me, that kind of eavesdropping and inserting your opinion where it was neither asked for nor factually based, was rude.</p>
<p>how about...
quitejaded was being rude
soumanyon was being pretentious
and i'm being annoying :D</p>
<p>Soumanyon: Can you be anymore arrogant?. Not everybody like you, you need to understand under others' circumstances a little. You if get a low SAT score would you change your perceptive?. You talk like you have a perfect SAT score. I did not see anyone that has a perfect score on this forum yet, but surely no is more boastsul than you.</p>
<p>I agree with those three assessments blythe89.</p>
<p>ln17: I really don't know where you got that impression. I've been trying to stress that I DON'T have abnormally high scores. And, at the risk of sounding immature, I'm not the one that started this. Go back to the top of this page. Was my comments directed at quitejaded? He decided to start this tirade against me so it's my perspective that he's not seeing. I understand that different people have different standards. He doesn't seem to understand that through his attacks of my standards as abnormal. (quitejaded: "I'm talking about NORMAL standards.")</p>
<p>I'm sorry if it seems as if I come off pretentious. Obviously, that wasn't intentional. But I felt the need to defend myself after he replied to my post directed at another person with:</p>
<p>"Yeah, that's real nice of you... Your post has been a lot of help to EVERYONE. Really."</p>
<p>When I was trying to reply to megaman123's post of,</p>
<p>"how accurate are PSAT proyections for SAT scores??"</p>
<p>Obviously I needed some factual evidence for my opinion so I provided my own scores. And, since they don't necessarily live up to my personal standards or goals, I felt the need to defend them. I admit that defensiveness might have been premature, but look at it from my point of view.</p>
<p>Just because I do have high standards, doesn't mean I meet them and I don't think I've given that impression, have I? Please don't take standards as realized facts; they're separate, or at least mine are. They can be just goals or dreams and often they are. Regardless of my SAT or PSAT scores, low or high, my standards for myself wouldn't change. Would you change a dream or goal just because of a stumble on the road to that goal?</p>
<p>yeah...my 1810 is really high too</p>
<p>PSATs were NOT an accurate prediction of SAT scores for me. I got 360 pts higher on the SAT, and I am sure I got at least 50 or so pts higher than that on a retake of the SAT (October, scores pending). I started with a 93% score on the PSATs too, and improvement gets harder as you get higher scores, so you definitely CAN improve tremendously, especially if you start with lower scores.</p>
<p>Don't give up hope.</p>
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<p>No. You don't even HAVE to have a second round. You can be finished with all requirments by Jr. year. My senior year, I'll only be taking 4 IB classes instead of the 6 I am now and the transition was EXTREME. Also, college applications? You just fill them out and be done with it. I always assumed you'd know which colleges you'd like by atleast the beginning of Sr. year (and you don't need to apply to 20...). </p>
<p>WHen I said rich, I'm not talkinga bout buying a load of prep books. I'm talking about from the beginning of your education, you've had to meet a higher standard. That's what I mean by rich. You have to pay for that higher standard. </p>
<p>It affects me because when I say I go to CC, people give me rude comments. And I blame it on kids like you. So you have high standards for yourself. Good for you. You show it in a very annoying way, but don't worry. There are much worse on here.</p>
<p>Kind of like eavesdropping? This was MY thread! I'm going to read everything in it, yeah. And how am I supposed to know whether or not something is directed at me? If you want to talk to somebody, insert their name or something! </p>
<p>The end. v_v"</p>
<p>Well, thanks for that bit of encouragement Flipsta. And everyone else. I feel better now. It'll just be a shame if all my hardwork went to waste.</p>