<p>LOL thats hilarious nota!!!
oh, the life lessons u gain from pokemon</p>
<p>also the writing was so hard
i got like 2 no errors in a row</p>
<p>and a billion other no errors.</p>
<p>was there anything wrong with
at the center of washington d.c. one?
i thought it’d be like “in the center” but i don’t think so now T___T i was literally FORCING myself to detect possible errors because i had so many E’s! totally screwed myself over</p>
<p>Okay, I’m not going to make another comment about this after this point, but disdain does mean to look down on as condecension is a synonym. I think it’s resentment, you think it’s disdain. It’s not a big deal.</p>
<p>Thanks Raid, :)</p>
<p>i think its resentment too…</p>
<p>that might be a curve on the test</p>
<p>Am I making things up in my head, or did Congress pass something where if you get over 200, nationwide, you get recognized somehow?</p>
<p>I probably won’t be a finalist, but maybe commended or recognized, that would be nice. But I don’t even know how you get those distinctions. How…?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>wish I would have studied a little more, but thats life</p>
<p>@early college: you’ll actually be saving the planet by not killing like 16 million trees.</p>
<p>Anyone who scores at least 200 gets commended of semi finalist or whatnot.</p>
<p>wait they curve PSAT’s?
really?</p>
<p>awesome…not that a curve will help my surely crappy score but yea. maybe it’ll help my smarter friends :)</p>
<p>and wait… so no one sees your PSAT scores right? i mean if you don’t get commended or get the merit scholarship thing…whatever you scored on the PSAT doesn’t matter and no one cares? i hope so hahah</p>
<p>Every PSAT score is curved. Basically they want it to average that like xpercent score a 75 or whatever. So sometimes missing one math might be a 76, sometimes it might be a 75 or a 74. It’s all done by percentile.</p>
<p>We need Silverturtle’s wisdom. Silverturtle’s answers on today’s PSAT = the answer key.</p>
<p>oh and there was a math question with a circle where the sum of the unshaded = average of shaded?</p>
<p>i put 60, my friend says 30, what did u guys say? (and why)</p>
<p>i said its 60 because if x = 60, then 60 +60 is 120, 240 degrees left in the circle and the mean of the shaded will be 120 since 2y=240, y = 120</p>
<p>The grading scale of the PSAT is curved. However, the curve is predetermined; it doesn’t change based on how people actually do on the test. I don’t think that there were any questions that you could argue to be “thrown out” on this test. I think, however, that there will be a “nicer” curve on this PSAT because it was pretty hard.</p>
<p>By the way, you don’t get anything for getting over a 200. You get commended if you receive a certain score that varies by state, I believe.</p>
<p>Commended is a national cut off of 200 (maybe 205) and the semifinalist cut offs go by state.</p>
<p>I guess I’ll be saving some tree’s :)</p>
<p>so if you don’t get any sort of recognition at all…
do colleges care?</p>
<p>That’s what I’m worried about. My cousin got nothing and got into swarthmore, university of chicago, and penn. But I’m right on the cusp for the commended thing because my score varies from around 195 - 210.</p>
<p>Some colleges offer scholarships to national merit scholarship winners/finalists.</p>
<p>However, the best colleges frankly don’t care about National Merit because virtually everyone who applies is a semifinalist or better.</p>
<p>but aren’t only like 15000 people semifinalist or something? thats like less than 2 freshman classes of the ivies.</p>