<p>Don’t know if anyone else has noticed (it took me a while cause I’m slow, so don’t make fun), but I just realized what the Form letters stand for (W for Wed. and S for Sat.).</p>
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<p>Yeah, they could…but it would take away all the anticipation (they like toying with our minds).</p>
<p>@ray0815: They definitely have different curves for different tests. What would be the point in creating one curve for totally different tests? It definitely would suck if they did, though. </p>
<p>Here is the link for last year’s curves- there is one for the Wednesday W form and one for the Saturday S form: <a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/understanding-psat-nmsqt-scores.pdf[/url]”>Higher Education Professionals | College Board;
<p>Thanks, Vince011.</p>
<p>is the Form W of last year’s PSAT considered a harsh curve? Hopefully this year’s has a better curve!</p>
<p>Not really, no. Form S’s curve is a bit more harsh, but they are both in the normal range.</p>
<p>Yea, why do they take longer to score the PSAT’s than the SAT’s? The extended length, to me, implies that the PSAT’s are more important or something.</p>
<p>^^
It’s probably the other way around SAT scores are scored faster because college’s have deadlines.</p>
<p>I doubt any conscious effort is made to slow the rate at which machines score PSAT Scantrons.</p>
<p>I’m guessing the extra time is the result of cb trying to establish curves for each test and cutoffs for each state</p>
<p>I’m guessing the extra time is the result of cb trying to establish curves for each test and cutoffs for each state </p>
<p>CB also has to make a curve for the SAT’s (despite the lack of cutoffs in SAT’s), yet they do it earlier than PSAT’s. Granted, they have to hurry the process because of college’s deadlines. But what does that have anything to do with the inexplicably slow process of scoring the PSAT’s?</p>
<p>Predict scores?</p>
<p>I think i got at least a -1 on CR, -1 to -0 for math, -1 or -2 for Writing. Im looking at a 230 ish?</p>
<p>@Kosherz: </p>
<p>80 CR
75- 80 M
75- 77 W</p>
<p>so you should end up meeting your goal</p>
<p>Will someone predict my score? </p>
<p>Math, -8 or 9
CR, -2, maybe 3
W, -2, maybe three </p>
<p>I, obviously, was aiming for commended. Math will always kill me.</p>
<p>Just for the hell of it, can some1 tell me mine:</p>
<p>Math: -3
CR: -5 to -7
W: -2 to -3</p>
<p>DAMN my life!!! I didn’t get NMSemifnialist.</p>
<p>"Will someone predict my score? </p>
<p>Math, -8 or 9
CR, -2, maybe 3
W, -2, maybe three </p>
<p>I, obviously, was aiming for commended. Math will always kill me."</p>
<p>You might be short of Commended status with those raw scores: if 9 wrong on Math, 3 wrong on CR, and 3 wrong on Writing, it would probably be around a 202 (60+73+69).</p>
<p>fresh101,</p>
<p>Math: 69
CR: 66-70
Writing: 70-74</p>
<p>Total: 205-213</p>
<p>fresh101,</p>
<p>Math: 69
CR: 66-70
Writing: 70-74</p>
<p>Total: 205-213 </p>
<p>Thanks Silverturtle!
Im really angry though. On the CB practice tests, i rarely get below an 800 (every now and then i end up with 770) but ***! I got 690. I didn’t even make 700!!! If i had gotten perfect on the math, i would have had a great shot at NM semifinalist for my state. GRRR…Too bad it’s only a one shot deal.
And math is supposed to be my best subject.</p>
<p>whats 2 wrong on math and writing and 3 omitted and 2 wrong on reading?</p>
<p>Silverturtle, </p>
<p>Is the commended cut off not 200?
202 would place me within range, or am I missing something?</p>
<p>^sometimes the commended score cutoff changes from 200 to 204 or something like that. They go by percentiles and for commended it’s always the 96th percentile, which causes a fluctuation in the score cutoff on a yearly basis.</p>