<p>My daughter had 68 CR / 58 M / 76 W on the PSAT last fall. She just got back scores from the June SAT and had 700 CR / 670 M / but just 660 W. I know that the PSAT doesn't include the essay portion, but is a swing like that on the writing sections of the two tests an oddity, or are you finding that the PSAT Writing is not much of a predictor of the same SAT subscale?</p>
<p>My son had a 76 on the PSAT W. He took 3 SATs- first W 650 (8), second W690 (9), third and last 730 (11). Just retake, it will probably go up.</p>
<p>heh i had an 80W on my sophomore PSATs and and 80W on my junior ones as well. My SAT writing was a 700 (12 essay, 65 MC). Not too thrilled about that one but I figure it was a bit of a fluke..besides, october test = me optimistic about score increase?</p>
<p>It makes you wonder what kind of predictive validity the two tests have when they both purport to measure writing ability.</p>
<p>on my junior psat, I got a 73 writing. on the multiple choice scale score for writing on my sat (also junior year) I only got a 64, but by getting a 12 on the essay it raised my score to a 700.</p>
<p>still disappointing, though</p>
<p>well the psat is not a bad predictor of sat writing. the score range they give you on the psat for a score of 80 is 700-770, i believe. they assume that the score will be lower in the sat and thus give you a lower predicted score range for the sats.</p>
<p>What I've found is that it is a pretty good predictor for some people (I have friends who received the exact or nearly the exact same score on the PSATs and SATs) but for others, it can fluctuate immensely, up or down. On my PSATs, I had a perfect writing score in tenth grade and it went down to a 75 in eleventh grade. My SAT writing score was right in the middle - 770. I would say the range is pretty accurrate but the essay can throw things off - that's where I lost all of my points.</p>
<p>m==most of my frinds had high 70s psat writing scores, and they pretty much alll went down, i think its because of the essay.</p>
<p>I on the other hand had a 210 psat, with a 62 writing(by far the worst of 3) and out of nowhere on a practice test ffor the real thing about 3 months later (hadent touched an sat since then) im suddennly getting 750s</p>
<p>got a 720 and the real thing, 12 on essay, i guess the essay helped me not hurt me</p>
<p>I think scores on the Math and Critical reading parts of the PSAT are comparble to the SAT, but the writing is not comparable. The PSAT does not show you how well you are going to do on your essay because just because you are good at the grammar section does not mean you are good at the Essay. They for the most part function independently of each other.</p>
<p>I got a 71 PSAT writing and a 710 on my first SAT writing. Wild difference eh, eh? :)</p>
<p>my scores are wildly different.</p>
<p>i took the psat and got 219 both times (soph and jun year)
1st time: 67 CR
76 math
76 writing
2nd time: 70 CR, 80 math, 69 writing</p>
<p>and then, i took the SAT twice (well twice that counted, i took it sophomore year but that apparently isnt accepted)
first time (that counted)
720 math, 700 cr, 670 writing</p>
<p>second time
800 math, 800 writing, 770 cr</p>
<p>so thus, i can confidently say that things can go really weird and sometimes its not a good indicator, depends on the person</p>