**PSAT Discussion Thread 2015**

Our public high school gives them out in January when the kids come back from break. They don’t go over them or anything but I think they do that because they are busy with other things in December.

Both my sons took this year’s PSAT as homeschoolers so I’m starting to watch the mail. I’m curious if I’ll before they get get their score reports via email before the paper copy comes in the mail.

Last year some students were able to get their scores from their college board account as early as 12/4
User palm12341 posted a method to get in without a access code but I’m not sure that will work this year since everything is different.

We’re almost at the 12th. Has anyone tried asking their school if scores have arrived?

@carachel2 tts different this year- they are going to email us an access code in December and we can get the scores ourselves. The login site is up already, I just don’t know the code:

https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/psat-nmsqt-psat-10

It actually even says “Create a free account now to access PSAT/NMSQ scores online when they are ready”

Also says:

When You’ll Get Your Scores
The College Board will email you an access code to view your online score report about two months after you take the test. Teachers and counselors will see scores about a day before you do and can give you the access code if you didn’t provide an email address when you took the test

@suzyQ7 …I saw that! But just assumed maybe it was up to the schools to release the access codes first?

no - its a new feature. They maybe finally woke up (and got school feedback) and got tired of parents harassing the teachers. Its all electronic anyway - the schools are getting files to load to their systems, no paper. If you peruse the site into the sections that say ‘for educators’ you can see how the file structures work for what they send to the schools. Its the same as for SAT- which makes sense, since its all College Board. My guess is that the login code if for you to set up a CB account (which they say ‘set up and account’) - I’m just afraid of doing it without the official access code. They said they would email the code to the email used on the test once scores were out. So, I’m watching out for that. I’ve seen this statement in several spots online- will look and post links.

I have to wonder if you need an access code if you already have a college board account. DS has one that already has his past PSAT scores, AP score and SAT scores. I would think that this years PSAT will just show up.

Do you know how to access the PSAT scores on the Collegeboard website? I don’t have an access code yet, and I can find SAT/AP scores, but not the PSAT scores (from this year’s test)

@glassflowers You can go to the pulldown menu under the person icon in the upper right corner, then click “my college quickstart” to get a menu circle with “My Online Score Report” as one option.

Or I think this link will get you there:
https://quickstart.collegeboard.org/posweb/login.jsp

Of course it might be different this year. The scores for this year don’t seem to be out yet. But that link will get you last year’s info.

Yes that’s the way to do it. I know last year they eventually just showed up because he had taken the PSAT before. Currently only 2014 & 2013 PSAT scores are there but I’m thinking 2015 will just appear sometime this month.

@HodgesSchool

Okay, thanks! I think my school’s only handing access codes after winter break though…

@glassflowers The email with the access code will come directly from the college board, IF the student put in an email address on the test. Keep an eye out on that email address for the email. Once I get mine, I’ll post back here.

https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/psat-nmsqt-psat-10/scores/student-score-reports:

“The College Board will email you an access code to view your online score report about two months after you take the test. Teachers and counselors will see scores about a day before you do and can give you the access code if you didn’t provide an email address when you took the test.”

So that means we can expect them by December ~13-14? I can’t remember my exact test date.

I think it was October 14th

There is an option to sign in to My College QuickStart (where you access the PSAT scores) without an access code. You just have to provide more information like your school’s code and your SSN.

@Mamelot were you able to see this years PSAT scores?
Anyone tried “Plam’s way” to see if it works this year? Editing step 2 and step 4 to 2015 instead of 2014?

I don’t have access to sons account or I’d give it a try myself…

Well the link takes me to the 2014 PSAT I took. So I tried changing the 2014 in the url to 2015 and that gave me a temporary unavailable page.

We could not get on via the “alternative way” that I mentioned above at this time. D3 didn’t even have a college board account till we set one up this evening. I’d be curious to know if bypassing the access code actually works. Seems to me if you are able to provide enough confidential information College Board should be able to let you access your scores w/o a code.