<p>Past 3 days I've been doing a couple of PSATs and I've been doing pretty poorly on the Math section. I don't think it's the book since I took two from Barron's and one from McGraw Hill. Last Oct I when I took the PSAT as a sophomore I got 80, and this Jan when I took the SAT I got 790. I don't know what's happening. If I score like this (620) on the real SAT or when I take the PSAT for reals this fall as a junior I am so screwed. Surprisingly my writing and CR scores rose compared to my Jan SAT and last-Oct PSAT. </p>
<p>If you just didn’t do any math for a long time and your math skill somehow decreased significantly (which I doubt), then you just have to work more.</p>
<p>Most likely, though, there was something funky about the tests. That 80 as a sophomore was official, and from what I gather, that 790 was from an official SAT test, too? If so, then don’t worry, you’re fine.</p>
<p>Of course, if you choose to ignore all of this, your only option is what Heplayer said. I’m afraid there’s no other way around it.</p>
<p>Yeah, both were official tests. I’m not AS worried about the SAT than the PSAT, since I think the colleges I plan on applying to superscore (or at least most of them). However, I’m a little bugged by the PSAT since I can’t retake and you only get one shot making National Merit. </p>
<p>I thought it was the tests too - I took two Barron’s PSATs and I was like, meh, Barron’s has a rep for being difficult. But then I took a McGraw Hill PSAT (which people here said was more accurate) and I got pretty much the same score. Personally, I thought the math section on McGraw was harder the Barron’s… I also have a Princeton Review PSAT book, but people say Princeton is ridiculously easy. Hmm. Should I give it a shot?</p>
<p>Hm, weird. Today I had a busy day, so I decided to only do one section of math (out of the two sections) and nothing else; I got them all right.</p>
I’m afraid there’s no other way around it.</p>