<p>I took the PSAT test in Kaplan center, and I got a 188 (took it 3 months ago)
This was when I was a freshman. How is the score? Do you think I can improve in another 3 months?</p>
<p>you can definitely improve...find your weaknesses and work on those problems especially</p>
<p>Wow that is hella good for a freshman. I've heard that the PSAT is actually harder than the SAT but I'm not too sure.</p>
<p>Anyhow yeah I would study, study so you can possibly get a 2300 or greater. Most people take their first SAT at the end of their junior, so you have a long time to create a study plan, get all your books and stuff. Take Advantage!!</p>
<p>What's good for an 8th grader?</p>
<p>Does anyone have a link to a percentile chart for 8th graders?</p>
<p>well, the percentile for an average junior is like a 56 for all sections. But of course that should not be what ur all aiming for. I mean I aim for MIT Stanford and Caltech, so obviously my aim should be a total of 220+;</p>
<p>Well if you take it as a freshman you are compared to sophmores in the percentile section..so there couldn't be an "8th grader" percentile.
AshwinSundar-188 is definintely a great score. I was only able to make a 170 as a freshman, then i didn't study as a sophmore for anything but math and ended up increasing my math score by 13 points from a 54->67 while my writing and cr scores stayed the same(duh.. i don't read much and i didn't practice. lol).
I'd suggest doing practice tests and learning math rules and grammar rules. That's the jist(sp?) of it. For CR, i definitely recommend doing more practice tests, but quality over quantity. A person who takes 3 sections of CR in like 30 minutes will not learn ANYTHING from it opposed to a person who may not even time his CR sections but spend time looking for proof in the passage for each question and looking at explanations. Study with patience especially if you get many wrong. Proof is in the passage. You probably have heard of that a million gazillion times, but it's TRUE. Before I took CR seriously, I'd just do practice tests. Meh..maybe go over the explanations. Then I started going over the explanations but not focusing on finding proof in the passage and spending the time I needed on the passage. Now, I'm not timing my CR sections, but I'm teaching myself how to efficaciously find proof in the passage by key terms and/or words.
If your aim is MIT, Stanford, Cal Tech..it doesn't matter what you score on your PSAT.. it can help with the merit scholarship and will look good on the application, but it won't HURT if you don't get nms b/c colleges don't see it. Plus, idk if either one of the colleges offers the merit scholarship(?) I'm not sure, you would have to verify that from the PSAT/NMSQT website.
You should focus on your SAT more..and don't worry. You are only a freshman! Don't spend so much time prepping for your sohpmore SAT, but don' t totally flunk studying for it. Don't worry about it that much. If you were a junior taking your last PSAT..that's the time to be really worried, but it's your second shot..you'll improve naturally b/c you know format and all.
Ok.well i'm going to stop because this will be a never-ending thread then. lol</p>