<p>It's tomorrow and I haven't signed up and payed for it which means I can't take it. MY brother told me I made a huge mistake and I have a higher chance of failing the SAT now. What should I do? I'm really scared. Is there any way I can take it online or something?</p>
<p>Are you in Junior?</p>
<p>I am a sophomore.</p>
<p>Then that’s fine. It is just a practice for sophomore. You are not going to miss anything.</p>
<p>Yes, I know, but the only thing that is worrying me is if I would do not too good on the SAT since I didn’t know what I’m weak at. Can I take the PSAT my junior year?</p>
<p>Our kids didn’t have to pay to take the PSAT, the school took care of it. Are you sure you have to pay? For the SAT and ACT and subject tests and APs, you definitely have to sign up and pay for it (our kids had to). But in at least some cases the school take care of all that for the PSAT.</p>
<p>Yep, that is the only reason why I didn’t sign up, it was 25$. Also, I asked some people and some of them told me, " The PSAT doesn’t affect you, most kids are taking it to skip their first two classes." I then thought to my self that I should not take it and then today every kid in school is saying it helps you with the SAT. To be honest, I am VERY disappointed that I didn’t sign up and pay for it.</p>
<p>If you’re worried about not being able to diagnose your weaknesses, you can take a practice SAT test on the college board website.</p>
<p>The only advantage of taking the PSAT in 10th grade is to get some test center experience. If it is just for the evaluation of your current standing, you just need to do some practice test on books or on the web. If you took the PSAT in 10th grade, you may be less nervous when you take it in 11th grade. As you know, there is only one chance for NMS qualification by PSAT. For test center experience, some of those test prep companies would offer free mock exams before summer.</p>
<p>Be sure to take it next year.</p>
<p>And…it’s “paid”…not “payed”.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Don’t worry about it. If you want to do well on the SAT, then get a good SAT prep book and spend regular time working through it. Master the material, ask teachers about things you might not understand, take the practice SAT tests and do most of them under timed conditions just like the real SAT. All that is way more important than one sitting of the PSAT. Many kids think the PSAT is just a practice for the SAT. Really, it’s a scholarship competition. But do take it as a junior when you have a chance to compete for the scholarships and also it is helpful to get used to taking a real exam under proctored conditions.</p>
<p>If $25 is an issue for you, you should look into getting the fees waived.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t worry if I were you, as other noted, you don’t seem to have a great command of basic English so you would have just wasted your $25. There are a lot of schools that don’t require standardized test scores, spend your time researching them.</p>
<p>it honestly one hurt you. I took it freshman year, skipped sophomore year, and took it junior year. There really was no added benefit. If you do really good you do get national merit scholarships and such but you can still take it junior year. Again, it won’t change your SAT score. Just familiarizes you with the timing and questions. I personally did not find any amazing use other than the merit stuff. Just study with the Blue book and I recommend Gruber’s…that is the BEST for the math hands down. I increased my score with 70 points using it. And I literally went through it in two days before the test haha</p>
<p>Don’t worry about the PSAT. Buy an SAT study guide, study it all, order the SAT and take it.</p>