PSAT 2012 Curve?

Test Preparation
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<p>I thought it’d be more efficient to make a consolidated list instead of a bunch of Q&A posts. I’m going off of what other people have posted in all the PSAT threads. I’m assuming that these scores do not include the extra points taken off for a wrong answer as opposed to an omit. (So if you missed 6 question but omitted all 6, you’d want to look at both -6 and -5 scores.) Please update this list as you get your scores. :)</p>

<p>Wednesday
CR
-1 80
-2 77
-3
-4 71
-5
-6 68
-7 66
-8 64</p>

<p>Math
-1
-2 73
-3
-4 68
-5 67
-6 64
-7
-8</p>

<p>Writing
-1 77
-2 72
-3 70
-4
-5
-6
-7
-8</p>

<p>Saturday
CR
-1 80
-2 78
-3
-4
-5
-6
-7
-8</p>

<p>Math
-1 76
-2
-3
-4
-5
-6
-7
-8</p>

<p>Writing
-1 75
-2 70
-3 68
-4
-5
-6
-7
-8</p>

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<p>Wednesday
CR
-1 80
-2 77
-3
-4 71
-5
-6 68
-7 66
-8 64</p>

<p>Math
-1 76
-2 73
-3
-4 68
-5 67
-6 64
-7
-8</p>

<p>Writing
-1 77
-2 72
-3 70
-4 68
-5
-6
-7
-8</p>

<p>Saturday
CR
-1 80
-2 78
-3
-4
-5
-6
-7
-8</p>

<p>Math
-1 76
-2
-3
-4
-5
-6
-7
-8</p>

<p>Writing
-1 75
-2 70
-3 68
-4
-5
-6
-7
-8</p>

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<p>Great idea. All of these PSAT threads floating around need to be consolidated.</p>

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<p>They have the curve and percentile info online: </p>

<p><a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/understanding-psat-nmsqt-scores.pdf[/url]”>http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/understanding-psat-nmsqt-scores.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Woa, the commended & up is now 55,000 students!</p>

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<p>Inferring from this and the published national percentiles for scores, a good guess would be commended cutoff = 199 for this next year.</p>

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<p>Hmm, last year -1 CR was an 80 and -1 W was a 75.</p>

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<p>Saturday
CR
-1 80
-2 78
-3
-4
-5 70
-6
-7
-8</p>

<p>Math
-1 76
-2 73
-3
-4
-5
-6
-7
-8</p>

<p>Writing
-1 75
-2 70
-3 68
-4
-5
-6
-7
-8</p>

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<p>They had that same 55,000 figure in past reports - don’t think they raised the number commended. That figure probably includes National Achievement recognition as well. What did change is that about 300,000+ more students took the test: 1,570,141 this year vs. 1,260,584 in 2011.</p>

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<p>sorry - that should have been 1,557,057 for this year vs 1,234,267 - but still the same general increase</p>

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<p>This is incorrect. There was no significant change from last year.

[College-Bound</a> Juniors & Sophomores | Research and Development](<a href=“http://research.collegeboard.org/programs/psat/data/cb-jr]College-Bound”>SAT Suite of Assessments – Reports | College Board)</p>

<p>However you are correct about the previous use of the 55,000 figure. I could find no links to the 2011 document but the paper copy I have does use that number. I believe you are correct in that it probably rolls up both NMS and NAS numbers. And, under this revised assumption, I’ll change my conjecture that the Top 50,000 scorer cutoff will be 200.</p>

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<p>I think I’ve figured it out…</p>

<p>Past “understanding scores” reports have used the language “Number of juniors in the sample.” This year it just states “number of juniors.” So I guess they have been excluding a large number of tests from the data analysis in the past and just using a sample of those who took the test, but not this year. </p>

<p>The “Understanding 2011 PSAT/NMSQT Scores” report lists 1,235,267 as the number of juniors in the sample used to derive the percentiles. In comparing past “understanding scores” to the archived “state summary reports” the numbers do differ greatly each year (2009 has just 1,210,797 in the sample size of the “understanding scores” vs. 1,545,856 in the “State Summary report”).</p>

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<p>This might be a dumb question, but I felt extremely confident on all the math I answered (Wednesday test), but I omitted one question. Assuming I got every question right I did answer, would that still put me at -1 = 76? The NC cutoff is 213 and I’m so scared, I think I’m going to be right at the cusp.</p>

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<p>If my PSAT scores were excellent, is this a good indicator for SATs? I’m taking SATs January and have not started preparing yet. I have a prep book and am not sure if a tutor would help.</p>

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<p>(if by excellent, you mean in the 200-240 range) the PSAT is much more difficult than the SAT, because, obviously the CollegeBoard wants you to show improvement from the PSAT to the SAT. My SAT based on the PSAT was 1960, but I scored 180 points over that on the SAT. If you do your best on both tests, prepare to see an SAT score higher than what the PSAT predicted.</p>