<p>Do the standards for National Merit tend to change a great deal from year to year?</p>
<p>My counselor said that last year the national standard for Commended was 200 and the standard in my state for Semi-Finalist was 220. Is it likely that these standards will change by more than a few points for this year?</p>
<p>My son (in California) got his PSAT scores today. He got a total of 237. He got just one wrong in Critical Reading.</p>
<p>The school got them on Tuesday and distributed them to the kids today.</p>
<p>Where in California? - we haven’t gotten ours yet.</p>
<p>woot! so happy!
80 M
80 CR
76 WR</p>
<p>:::DDDD!!!</p>
<p>the curve was one wrong in math=75
one wrong in writing=76</p>
<p>If some schools have the scores, all the schools have the scores. Ask the counselors, and if they tell you that they will have a meeting to explain the results, tell them you can find the explanation on your own on the CB website (and then go to the meeting, it might still be interesting).</p>
<p>I want to know noooooow.</p>
<p>But I really don’t want to bug my counselor about it…she’s probably extremely busy with college stuff.</p>
<p>Yet, we’re score partners, even by section! I just hope that I can do as well on the SAT this Saturday.</p>
<p>hey, someone who took the saturday test–mind telling me what the answer was for the james forten census question and the mind/stars one, about the purpose of something and we had a debate about psychological needs or something…</p>
<p>and plus for writing, the che guevara one and the “long since lost”?</p>
<p>thanks a lot!</p>
<p>anyone in alabama got their scores yet??</p>
<p>I got a 240, worship me please.</p>
<p>I will not worship you, but congrats, freak.</p>
<p>I got my score today: 221</p>
<pre><code> CR: 66 (I missed 8 questions plus -2)
M: 75 (I put 1981 instead of 1983)
W: 80 =)
</code></pre>
<p>I’m almost 100% sure I qualified. The cutoff last year was 217. So even if it rises this year, I still have a chance. I’m happy. (I live in California)</p>
<p>By the way, if you DID NOT have an asterik next to your Selection Index, does that mean you’re in? I was in 99th percentile. I REALLY hope I qualify.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure the asterisk just means that you’re a sophomore or that there’s some other reason why you’re not eligible for NM.</p>
<p>to van-sant:</p>
<p>The James Forten “massive census” question (is that the one you’re talking about?) answer was E; to illustrate the way that Forten balanced competing interests.</p>
<p>For the mind/stars one, I don’t know which one you’re talking about. Can you specify?</p>
<p>Writing: For the che guevara one, I don’t even know what you’re talking about. The “long since lost” one was E; no error.</p>
<p>If the score is in the 99 percentile, does that almost guarantee the student to be a semi-finalist?</p>
<p>Oh just to give out a bit of info. I saw a 212 in California who had 99%.</p>
<p>I thought 99th percentile didn’t matter unless you beat/equaled the state cutoff? I’m confused…</p>
<p>Yeah, the 99th percentile is national I think…I know I scored 99th last year but I was below my state’s cutoff.</p>
<p>I want my scores. lol.</p>
<p>Most National Merit semifinalists will be in the top half of the top national percentile (exactly where that line is isn’t reported). In a few states, the National Merit semifinalist cutoff score for that state is little higher than the nationwide Commended Student score. </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1061009151-post571.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1061009151-post571.html</a></p>
<p>Oh man, i’m getting my results back on monday… hoping for NMS, which is 217+…</p>
<p>thanks freakchild–and che guevara had somethign do with grape workers? the sentence was like “many of them mexican americans…”</p>
<p>and the stars/ brain one-- there was a question about what purpose did a certain sentence serve and what two ideas did it link? know im not being clear, but thats all i can remember…</p>
<p>did anyone get their scores via email yet?</p>