<p>You guys are beating yourselves up, haha. My school's test scores are mediocre, I'm satisfied with what I got, for the most part</p>
<p>CR - 59 (Could've done better)
M - 50 (I'm TERRIBLE at math, I'm satisfied)
WS - 66</p>
<p>222- I got a 78 in cr, 76 in m, and 68 in wr (horrible! writing's normally my best!) but the math kinda stinks for me cuz I probably would have gotten an 80 except I switched around three of the questions and realized at the last minute, so I only had time to change two... :(</p>
<p>Quadomatic, What was your percentile? I'm from Illinois too, and got a 223 with a 99%, but only 98% nat'l for writing, and a 97% illinois for writing. Scores were 75 reading, 76 math, and 72 writing. What did other Illinois people do?</p>
<p>Einstein, what was your total selection index?</p>
<p>I got a 225(sophmore)230(Junior) In New Jersey and a 2350 on the Sat</p>
<p>228</p>
<p>CR - 75
M - 73
W- 80</p>
<p>Sweeeeeet. I gotta say though, I'm definitely not good enough to beat this on the real SAT's. The score's awesome, but it's setting me up for disappointment :/</p>
<p>umm don't kick me off cc.</p>
<p>58-CR
61-M
60-W
179 composite. :(</p>
<p>brightside = i'm a sophomore.</p>
<p>I got a 221
78 CR: left 1 question blank but idk why because I definitely knew the answer cause it was the only thing I circled in the test book
68 M: left 2 MC blank, got 1 MC wrong, and wrote in one of the grid-ins wrong, even though I had the correct answer
75 W: got 1 wrong</p>
<p>I heard from one of the counselors, though, that the NY cutoff is 222.
Which would suck, horribly.
And it would suck even more because I probably would have gotten a 222+ if I had done my grid-in correctly. </p>
<p>If that grid-in is the reason why I don't make NMSF....</p>
<p>alamode: Why not try sending a letter to the NMSC explaining your problem (preferably before the official cutoffs get released). It certainly wouldn't hurt.</p>
<p>on your PSATs, how often did you study? Did you have a tutor? What prep tips and study guides do you recommend?</p>
<p>aimee.dowell....do you seriously think this would work? i know a lot of people who have made grid in mistakes---would they really listen to one person?</p>
<p>No, it wouldn't work.</p>
<p>pomum-For CR, do practice tests, do them over and over again until you get it. When you review your answers, review everything, even the ones you got right, not just the ones you got wrong. You might have had some questions that you guessed on and got right. From this, you will start to get a sense of what right answers sound like and what wrong answers sound like. I did very well on CR, and I was not sure of some of my answers when I took the test, but I got them right because I had built a good sense of what questions ask.</p>
<p>For writing, get a SAT book and look at all the rules. They give you 98% of the things they could possibly ask you for. On each test, there are usually one, two, or three questions that you might have to guess on, and when you get there, it just depends on chance. If you get an 11 or 12 on your essay, you should still be able to get 800 though. </p>
<p>For math... I'm not very sure because it was CR and W that I did prep on... (if you need help, ask someone who was able to improve their score)</p>
<p>70 CR
80 M
73 W</p>
<p>I was hoping for higher on CR but 223 is still good.</p>
<p>75 CR
80 M
73 W</p>
<p>227, I was expecting a lot higher though; made some careless errors. But 227 is definitely High enough to qualify right? (highest cutoff last year was MA and DC with 223).</p>
<p>79 - CR
80 - math
73 - writing </p>
<p>.. so, a 232, which is actually worse than i did on the SAT (2370)
but 99th percentile, which is guaranteed semifinalist status i believe, and i improved from sophomore year's psat score of 209!</p>
<p>yeah, the writing curve was tough, i only missed two and i went down to a 73, and i got an 800 writing on the actual SAT</p>
<p>Not saying that everyone is lieing. But I doubt every poster here is top 99th percentile.</p>
<p>yeah, the writing scale was pretty nonexistent...
i got three wrong and it was a 69...and they were all sentence completions where i got too anal and there wasn't actually an error.</p>
<p>The writing curve sucked. I got a 68, but on the SAT I got an 800. Psh. Screw you, PSAT writing :)</p>
<p>musicgal3, I got the same score as you on the PSAT. (on all 3 subjects, weird) When did you take the SAT, and how was it?
By the way, congrats on your 2370.</p>