PSAT NMS cut off from early 60's?

Well that’s a rather slanted article.

A lot has changed over the years. For example when I took the test in 1986 neither I nor any of my junior classmates had prepped for it. I qualified in California with a 230, which presumably would still qualify. But noone seemed to know much about what that meant. My parents didn’t l didn’t. The high school didn’t publicize.