@ancientmali Oh thats cool that the more competitive colleges give you something too. Thanks.
I think that the general way it goes is more elite=less money for NMF. Less elite=more money. I am a proud NMSF for the HS class of 2015 (good luck, @ancientmali!) and am counting on that status or NMF to go to college. One of my state universities (New Mexico State) offers tuition, room, and a $1,165-per semester stipend for NMSF, and a $2500-per semester stipend for NMF. I’m planning to go to Wichita State University if I make NMF, and they give a full-ride - OOS tuition, room, board, and $1000 for books for 4 years.
Wow that’s awesome… Congrats! @albert69
I just pre-ordered the new SAT Study Guide for the redesigned SAT. It comes with 4 new practice tests & it will be available around the end of June. The new SAT study materials are supposed to be available on the Khan Academy website “by spring 2015.” Springs starts on 3/20, so we’ll see if they meet their deadline. I’m not sure of the stuff in the new study guide will be the same stuff that will be available on the Khan site, but I ordered the book for my daughter anyway just to get things rolling.
@LMHS73, where/how did you order that Study Guide?
Nevermind - found it! Here’s a link, if anyone else needs it! http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1457304309/ref=od_aui_detailpages00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Here ya go-- a new PSAT practice test for CB. https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sat-suite-assessments/practice/practice-tests
College Board says now that Khan Academy SAT practice resources are available early June 2015
My daughter will be attending Wright State University in the fall on a fully funded scholarship based on her Commended score on the PSAT. Tuition. room and board, books and fees all covered for 4 years.
@Scott45044 That’s great! Congratulations.
All, I had question regarding why and how important is PSAT also in another discussion, @3scoutsmom helped me and shared with me this amazing link; http://nmfscholarships.yolasite.com, although not many universities participated from my state, but like its good to consider them for safeties!
Did anyone figure out the NMS cutoffs yet for the upcoming PSAT?
PrepScholar made estimates: http://blog.prepscholar.com/does-your-psat-score-qualify-for-national-merit
@Ynotgo But those are merely conversions off the 240 scale like they just set up proportions and rounded the numbers pretty much.
Also @Ynotgo Did you try the released practice PSAT test? If so how’d it go and what do you think of it?
Yes, they are just conversions. Test designers try to spread scores over a bell curve so that differences in the tails can be useful. I suppose PrepScholar is guessing that the College Board will attempt to create a test with a similar bell curve to the previous PSAT. That’s a pretty good guess as to what they will try to do. Whether they will be successful the first year is perhaps a little more iffy. That might depend on whether they’ve been able to do some pilot testing of a variety of sample PSATs with small groups that turn out to be reflective of the overall test-taking population.
I didn’t try the released practice PSAT, since I haven’t taken the PSAT since the 1980s ;-). (I still remember the vocab word I missed: “dormer”)
Am I missing something? The practice PSAT that you get when you sign up doesn’t give any kind of score conversion, nor was there one in the new SAT book. Where does one go to get an estimate of how one’s scoring? As a sidebar, I thought the new math questions looked crazy.
@charlucas it’s here:
https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/pdf/scoring-psat-nmsqt-practice-test-1.pdf
@3scoutmom - Thank you for that. Is it just me, or have they made this needlessly complicated?
@CT1417 No it’s not just you!
I think that 760 upper cut was used just to pi$$ me off. Really? 760? It couldn’t be 800? (If I say 760 enough, maybe it will stick in my head.) I don’t have a horse in this race any more, but I tutor math, and need to know these tests and their scoring.