huge discrepency between psats and sats

<p>This fall I took an SAT prep course right before the psat and I got a 225. I waited until march to take the test, but did very little prep between november and march and got a 2030 on the real thing. Obviously I was very dissapointed. can this score discrepancy be attributed to the timing of my prep? </p>

<p>For example...I got a 78 in writing in the fall and a 650 on the real sat. </p>

<p>this sucks.</p>

<p>I got a 198 on the PSAT and a 2250 on the real thing. I am very happy about the discrepancy.</p>

<p>211 on the psat and 2180 on the real one.
80 to 740 on math
66 to 730 on CR
65 to 710 on W
211 to 2180/1470</p>

<p>For me my writing went down from a 73(0) to a 660 but my math only went down by ten and my writing got better. Still super disappointing but I stayed out late the night before and had terrible allergies so not the best environment for test taking. </p>

<p>Oh well. There’s the ACT and then retesting!</p>

<p>My discrepancies were fairly large, too.</p>

<p>CR: 76 - 710
M: 61 - 560
W: 75 - 660</p>

<p>I think that they were all in the projected score bands, actually (albeit, the LOW side). I’m retaking. Wonder if I should try for the May SAT. I mean, this was my first try, so I didn’t do abysmally.</p>

<p>I’m a junior, it was my first time taking the SAT’s, and my studying consisted of taking the math section of a practice test the night before. I actually thought I did well on the CR and math sections at the time, but my PSAT scores were higher. :frowning: I did better than I thought on the essay, though. </p>

<p>CR: 77 - 740
M: 67 - 640
W: 73 - 690</p>

<p>Overall, my SAT score was 100 points worse! Do you think a 2200 would be possible if I retake it in June? How much studying would I have to do?</p>

<p>I think it all depends on the difficulties of the specific PSAT/SATs you took. I got a 231 on my PSAT and for the SAT:</p>

<p>1st time - 2240
2nd time - 2330</p>

<p>So in the end the PSAT was a good predictor for me.</p>

<p>Inaccurate predictor for my daughter: 190-something on PSAT
2310 on SAT</p>

<p>SAT IIS were all in the mid to high 700s, but that is because I think that those were more curriculum-based test.</p>

<p>172 on sophomore year psat
2160 on real sat’s
lets ****in gooooooooooooooooooooooo</p>

<p>Yeah… I didn’t really find a striking similarity between my 215 Junior PSATs and 2380 SATs the following March.</p>

<p>PSATs 66 CR 71 Math 78 Writing
SATs 800CR 790 Math 790 Writing</p>

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