<p>"YOu get a 770 - 760" (someone wrote above)</p>
<p>Wait a minute, how can this be right? This is what you get if you omit one but don't get any wrong in math? You mean no one gets a 780 or a 790 in math? (Or a 78 or 79, since it's the PSATs?) It's impossible? How can that be?</p>
<p>Well I think it goes by whatever the curve is, but going by the curve given in the practice test if you get one wrong(or omit one) in the math you get a 76.</p>
<p>Omitting one and getting one wrong give different scores. Omitting one is supposed to take less off than getting one wrong....</p>
<p>Take the practice test for example. If you omit one and get the rest right you will have 37 points which gives you a 76. getting one wrong will give you 37 points - .25 which will round up to 37 anyway. So answering and getting questions wrong really only matters if you get more than 2 wrong(.5 and .75 round up)</p>
<p>agreed with dunkindonuts</p>
<p>But...don't people get 77s, 78s, and 79s? How can the curve skip over 30 or 40 points?</p>
<p>The curve for the PSAT is arbitrary. The reason that so many points tend to be taken off for, say, 1 or 2 mistakes/omissions, is that the math section tends to be easier than the other two. Last year, to reiterate comments of previous posters, one missed/omitted problem meant a 77 on the Saturday test and a 76 on the Wednesday.</p>
<p>That really IS arbitrary! Isn't this why the CB recentered the SATs? No wonder it's so hard to make the cutoff for National Merit. You lose 40 points off the math with one mistake or omission!</p>
<p>hey what was the answer in the writing for this: he's known of both his songs and his arrangements of other peices. i think it was no error</p>
<p>how many can you get wrong in CR and still get over 600?</p>
<p>in the question about speaking explicity and the ANSWER was EUPHEMISM , what were the other choices?</p>
<p>i know id idnt put garrulousness down but i dont htink i put euphemism</p>
<p>in the passage reading GRAMMAR SECTION about the lady winning the award from Bush,
was she critical in the way that she said bush could improve education more?</p>
<p>One of the other choices was "excoriation" (C), which would not have made much sense.</p>
<p>I took the PSAT sophmore year.My percentiles were 90/87/98.I only got a 184.It's a highest number anyone I've talked to bas, but I hope I did much better this time.It SEEMED sorta easy.The practice tests were harder than the real thing.</p>
<p>"he's known of both his songs and his arrangements of other peices."</p>
<p>Seems better if you replace 'of' with 'for'.</p>
<p>I don't remember any of these questions you people are talking about.Isn't there supposed to be only one test a year?</p>
<p>I got a 212 last year so I hope I can improve it by about 10 points and get the national honor thing.</p>