What difference did you see between your or kid’s PSAT 10 and PSAT?
DS took both and thought they were the same difficulty. The CB used last year’s PSAT 10 as this year’s official practice PSAT. I was not pleased since we were expecting a new practice test not the PSAT 10 he’d already taken!
I wonder why they did that? How difficult could be to add a new practice tax? They charge good money, they should be able to come up with a new practice test. It could’ve made new format clear for students. When are results coming out? 12th?
I was wondering how much of an average score increase kids see between PSAT 10 & PSAT of junior year? I guess 10 points plus minus?
Wasn’t last year the 1st PSAT 10? If so, no one will no the answer to that until Dec. 12th.
Not sure if your question is specific to the new PSAT, or if you are more interested in how much a student can improve from 10th to 11th. Here’s DS’s experience in case this helps.
My son is a college freshman, so he took the old PSAT in 10th and PSAT in 11th for old SAT. His PSAT score was in the 89th percentile in 10th. He had exactly the same score in each section. He did not prep for PSAT in 11th, though likely a mistake as he misbubbled an entire section of it and didn’t realize until nearly the end of the section when he frantically tried to fix it. Two of his scores were within one point and the section he misbubbled was much lower. It was disappointing for him as he missed commended by 1 point. Had he bubbled correctly I think he could have been NM. He took the ACT (some studying- maybe 15hrs?) and scored in the 99th so he stopped testing and focused on subject tests.
Prior to sitting the ACT he took two mock ACTs and a mock SAT at a testing facility, in addition to the PSAT’s. He would say that is what helped him more than the studying. At least he didn’t misbubble again!
S18 got a 193 index on PSAT 10, which was his first time taking it. This year he took a 6 week prep course at hia school in which he took about 6 full practice tests. His Eng and Math teachers also included prep work in their fall curriculum, and gave out 100 quiz grades to those who took Saturday practice tests. S18 improved over 30 points to 224-226 on junior yr PSAT based on what GC told him yesterday.
My score went up 90 points. I took a prep course in math at my school, but I don’t think that helped much, and I took the actual SAT once, so that experience might’ve contributed to the boost. As far as the actual test, I noticed little to no difference between the two.
@vistajay Your school has the PSAT scores?!
Congrats to your S. It’s unfortunate that all schools don’t offer the same resources…
@planner03, the schools had access to the PSAT scores as of yesterday, but many (like my D’s school) haven’t released them.
@suzy100 thanks, our GCs probably don’t even know they are available…seriously. I guess I can wait another 6 days. With a 203 on the PSAT 10 I don’t think there is a chance anyway.
@2mrmagoo You are correct, I wanted to see how much students improved their scores from PSAT 10 to “real” PSAT.
@vistajay Your school sounds great. Ours don’t do anything, just announce that there will be PSAT 10 and SAT practice tests in September, anyone interested can submit $15 to take one. There teachers don’t only care about AP testing because that effects them.
@mcco18 Wow! You jumped high.
@planner03 Don’t loose hope, at 203, there is a good chance of improvement.
S18’s HS is a private Jesuit school that treats NM as a competition. In a good year, they have 40-50 NM out of 250 boys in the class. There was a line down the hall Monday as students met with their GC to hear their scores. When I went there, NMSF were announced at assembly in a pep rally atmosphere, the honored students running up to the podium as their name was called to give the principal a hi-five.
My son had 1450/214 last year and got 1490/223 this year. He is a junior attending a public school in NJ and took summer SAT review lessons.
My S had 1460/220 last year and 1490/222 this year. Public HS in Texas. He was invited to attend a special summer/fall prep program subsidized by his school district specifically for students who are potential NMF as indicated by sophomore PSAT score. He thought the program was all right but not great, and actually skipped the last three sessions to study on his own.
@traveler98, I was thinking our school districts test prep by invitation only must be pretty weak too, since our school district only produces 1-2 NMF yearly.