<p>I got my score from my PSAT back today, and I'm curious about how the whole process works. Does what you get as a sophomore affect anything if you take it again as a junior? Or is it more to see what you can expect to get if you take it again as a junior? I got a 76 in cr, 58 in math (this score is artificially low for reasons I won't go into) and like a 75 or something in writing (it was the 95 percentile). My composite was 191 in the 93 percentile.
I'm kind of worried because I know this is nowhere the cutoff, but I don't really understand what it all means.</p>
<p>Only the junior year exam counts for anything. If you can bring your math score up to the range of the other scores you will be in good shape for National Merit no matter what state you are in.</p>
<p>As the above poster mentioned, your score will determine if you’re selected as a national merit commended. The cutoffs vary among states. Then you get selected for semifinalist if your scores are a above a higher cutoff, and then you send your SAT scores and wait for February when they’ll notify you if you’re a finalist. I don’t think you need to worry about your score, it’s not terrible. I score about the same sophomore year, but got a 230 junior year, with a 70 in writing, so you beat in me in that :). I would say if you got your math score up to 70 plus you could be at least national merit commended, then again it depends on what state you live in. Unfortunately I’m from MA…</p>
<p>oh and your sophomore score doesn’t matter - the whole process I mentioned occurs during junior and senior year.</p>
<p>Thanks for calming my mini-semi panic</p>
<p>Just as a side note, you may be closer than you think as the sum of your scores is actually 76 + 75 + 58 = 209 which is close to many cut offs.</p>
<p>If your CR was 76, math 58, and composite 191… then writing would be 57…</p>
<p>Yeah that was my fault, I didn’t really remember which writing score I got, just the percentile (95) and I just kind of guessed since the 76 in CR got me 99th percentile, I thought the writing score would be near that lol.</p>