<p>I have been preparing for the PSAT with a Barron's book for a while, and it seems to be much harder than some of the other PSAT prep aids out there. Does anyone have any information or opinions about the difficulty of the actual test compared to various preparation programs?</p>
<p>Best preperation is the collegeboard book and previous years psat exams.</p>
<p>Go to your GC office and get the practice test for this year. Take that test and score it. </p>
<p>The key to understand about scoring parity is the scale grid. When you get a certian score in math (lets say it was 33) you look that number up in a grid to get your “scaled” score. That grid isnt constant…it varies with each test. If a particular test was tougher on agregate than your 33 gets you a slightly better scaled score than if it was easy. </p>
<p>Barrons and the other books dont have accurate scales because no one actually took the tests and aggregated the results. Only collegeboard has those.
GL next week my son is taking it too.</p>