<p>i was almost sure it said y-axis..</p>
<p>i'm positive it said the x-axis.</p>
<p>two wrong isn't bad!!! it's only the PSAT. =) smile please.</p>
<p>Well, it's okay depending on where you live. I live in MA. Cutoff is tied for highest in the nation at 222. An 80 in math is what I was counting on. <em>pouts</em> I'm not making the cutoff, when I easily...EASILY...should have.</p>
<p>Argh... that math curve does really suck. To go from 80 to 77 with one missed problem is unfair. </p>
<p>=(</p>
<p>yea thank god this is just psat... i would be happy with 200+.... i could(will) definately nail out a perfect score by jan.</p>
<p>i really dont think national merit looks so good on college apps. if you do very well on SAT national merit would mean very little.... unless youre looking to get a scholarship with it...</p>
<p>-_-</p>
<p>im from new york, cutoff is 218 here :| i am sure i didnt get it :( i got like 5 wrong on the math, iwas also counting on an 80 :| stupid careless mistakess</p>
<p>I'm surprised the cutoff is so high in NY, CT, and RI (222). I think it's 216 here, and I'm pretty sure I got that. I don't want to say I'm positive, though...</p>
<p>im from new york, cutoff is 218 here :| i am sure i didnt get it i got like 5 wrong on the math, iwas also counting on an 80 :| stupid careless mistakess</p>
<p>as my physics teacher says... its not the elephants that bite you, its the mosquitoes....(the small things)</p>
<p>its so lame but so true :'(</p>
<p>Yes, that and elephants don't bite; they trample over those foolish enough to stand in their way.</p>
<p>I was expecting to do poorly (SAT confidence is low) but, judging from the posts, I'm proud to say I did... okay! I am frustrated that with math though- I had no time to check it- and I made that common mistake over the y/x axis problem; if I didn't notice that, what other careless mistakes did I make?</p>
<p>ANYWAY, it doesn't matter. It's over. It's just the PSAT, it's practice. Now, we can go read or watch tv or do homework or eat. Or even start practicing for the regular SAT. Yay!</p>
<p>ugh, that test was awful.</p>
<p>the verbal was so hard.</p>
<p>and to answer the x-axis/y-axis debate..</p>
<p>i KNOW it was the x axis cuz i stared at the question for about 10 minutes. and got it wrong.</p>
<p>but at least i know what the question was...</p>
<p>^lol! Yes, confirmation. Everyone who said y-axis was stressing me out because that math curve is just CRUEL. -1 and it's, what, 76?</p>
<p>Which means I have about a 76 assuming I didn't screw up anything else.</p>
<p>Which means overall, I should have at least 116 (+20 for CR, +20 writing, the lowest scores)</p>
<p>i think i did really awful on the math.</p>
<p>i didnt answer like 3 of the questions because i didnt have time to go back...</p>
<p>and im just not that good at math overall!</p>
<p>the verbal, which is usually my strong point was sooo hard...quite surprising..</p>
<p>Maybe we should start congratulating ourselves for the following reasons:</p>
<ol>
<li>We didn't collapse/fall asleep (literally fall asleep) during the test.</li>
<li>We answered the questions and finished the test.</li>
<li>Everyone on this board probably got above a 200, so we're all basically commended! (right?)</li>
</ol>
<p>Not me. BTW, how do get all that info about curves and cutoffs? What is the cuttoff for Arizona?</p>
<p>is over 200 commended????</p>
<p>Am I the only one who just punched all intergers from 1 to 48 in my calculator on one math question? What else is the way to find that out?</p>
<p>Who, me? Based on that blue/grey packet that the CB gives out to everyone...there's that sample test in there and a sample scoring grid.</p>
<p>Well, not collapsing or falling asleep is a given. Finishing the test is also a given unless you run out of time. And getting above a 200 is not an extraordinary acheivement; not even getting above 220 is. (Edit: Well, getting above 200 is an accomplishment but would be a huge deprovement for me, and a 220 would just be under my state's semifinalist levels, so...)</p>
<p>NorthWestLover, me too :) There's a way to figure out, though...I forgot it, and I had oodles of time left over, so I thought...hey...I did figure out the 1-48, all integers one on my own though. That was all the odd integers, minus 49, and all the even integers, minus 50; hence the final answer was 99.</p>
<p>Serin: I don't know, but it seems like everyone on this board who said they got commended last year got above 201 or so.</p>
<p>NWLover: I did that! I was too lazy to figure out the patterns....Hehe</p>