PSAT Curve

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<p>To Bookworm in Wisconsin, where are you looking for college? Congrats on your excellent scores. </p>

<p>We got our PSATs in New Orleans today.</p>

<p>I got a 207: 60 in Critical Reading, a 73 in Writing, and a 74 in math. </p>

<p>Took the SAT in October right before and got a 2100: 730 writing, 680 math, and 690 critical reading.</p>

<p>Hopefully, my SAT math will go up on the next try, but I think I got lucky on the critical reading. The selections were on astronomy, which I love, whereas the PSAT selections were not interesting to me, so not surprised did poorly on them. Always test bad on reading comprehension, so not surprised on the PSAT reading score, but thrilled with the math. Wish we could superscore the PSAT.</p>

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<p>loltastic, you won’t know for sure until the spring. Last year, TN’s cutoff was 213, according to another cc post.</p>

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<p>Has anyone from Texas recieved his or her PSAT score? More specifically Dallas? I’m dying to know what I got, but my counselor won’t even tell me if they have the scores yet. :(</p>

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<p>I’m in Texas, and S’s counselor said she doesn’t have scores yet. District is sitting on them, but she expects to get them later this week or next week.</p>

<p>And I wrote wrong above. NMSF are announced in the fall of their senior years … but looking at last year’s cutoffs give you an idea of whether you’re in the neighborhood.</p>

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<p>rt2000, somebody on yahoo loop with me got them in Dallas on Monday. Maybe it depends on where you took the test? I really don’t know. We waited yesterday for our very late mailperson (6:30 or so) and still nothing. Why do the scores have to arrive with all the Christmas catalogs? :slight_smile: My d calls it Tossmas since we toss the great majority of them.</p>

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<p>yes it translates approximately to that score == 234 psat approximates to an estimated 2340. for confirmation you should get real sat score in that neighborhood to advance to finalist, i think.</p>

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<p>The SAT score from an SAT test taken within one year before or after the PSAT/NMSQT doesn’t have to be “correspondingly” high for a National Merit semifinalist to advance to finalist. It just has to be high, not abyssmally low.</p>

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<p>PSAT Scores went out today at WV schools. Missed three for minus 1 point and a 74 CR, Missed two MC and one SR for no points off and a 69 Math, and missed 5 for minus 1 point and a 65 WS.
P.S. I took the Wed. Test.</p>

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<p>The repetition of “a” is your typo, right? That phrase I just copied and pasted from above isn’t correct as displayed here.</p>

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<p>Saturday test score:</p>

<p>Cr 77 -3
Math 68 -4
Writing 76 -1</p>

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<p>they’re here in oklahoma. and my counselor won’t give them to me, even though he had previously said he would. ahh! those priests and their following of school policy!</p>

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<p>ANOTHER UPDATE:
Wed 2008 Curve</p>

<p>M
-0 80
-1 77
-2 74
-4 69
-21 48</p>

<p>CR
-0 80
-1 80
-2 77
-5 72
-6 68*
-11 64
-12 63
-15 60</p>

<p>W
-0 80
-1 77
-2 73
-4 70 * (s1 missed 4 with 0 omits and got 68)
-6 65
-10 60</p>

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<p>Looks like many schools are just waiting to release scores… </p>

<p>@Montegut
Looking at CMU, Rice, UChicago, MIT, various others. Mainly focusing on strong science/engineering departments.</p>

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<p>S just got scores (Wednesday Exam)
Critical Reading 70 (missed 5, no omissions)
Math 77 (missed 1)
Writing 77 (missed 1)</p>

<p>The CR score is lower than other posters for 5 wrong answers (70, not 72). Wonder why. Otherwise S is happy, Dad is happy.</p>

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<p>S2 (10th grade): 192 Wed. test</p>

<pre><code> M-missed 5, 0 omit–68
CR-missed 8, 6 omit–60
W-missed 5, 1 omit–64
</code></pre>

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<p>Hey, I’m an 11th-grader from New York.</p>

<p>Saturday test; 231:</p>

<p>80 CR (1 wrong)
75 M (1 wrong)
76 W (1 wrong)</p>

<p>No omits. Does anyone know if I can use my 2330 SAT from June of last year for the score confirmation, or if I have to take it again?</p>

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<p>So are these just bare score reports - no info about specific questions?</p>

<p>Also, how are you guys getting this mailed to you? In the past it’s been sent to my school, although I provide my home address.</p>

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<p>The actual score report shows all the answers for all the questions. I have only seen the 2008 Wednesday score report, postal mailed to us as a homeschooling family.</p>

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<p>Has anyone in Oregon received their scores yet?</p>

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<p>“Last year” as in June of 2008 or 2007? </p>

<p>If it is 2008 then you are fine. 2007 would be more than 1 year before the PSAT so I believe it wouldn’t qualify.</p>

<p>Congratulations on the great scores.</p>