<p>wow, i improved exactly 11 pts btwn frosh and soph year too. but i prepared. XD</p>
<p>i guess everyone has a limit as to how high they can go, so the key is to find that place and nail it.</p>
<p><strong><em>SHAMELESS PLUG ALERT</em></strong></p>
<p>princeton review helped me improve ALOT... if u have the time and the money i recommend it</p>
<p>when i took the psat, (sophmore) they graded us like how they would grade the new sat (out of 2400). i got a 1900 out of 2400 which would be around a 1260 out of 1600.</p>
<p>my parents are completely freaking out ( may i point out that this leaves me no time to freak out at my score b/c i'm too freaked out about my parents freaking out - very unfair! lol! )</p>
<p>therefore, i'm counting on my score to improve. btw, thanks for the tip about the princeton review, ilovetocamp! i didn't study for this one, so my score is bound to improve if i do study, right...?</p>
<p>anyway... Happy V-day folks!!!</p>
<p>desi_chik,</p>
<p>O yeah, fer shure ur score will improve, if one thing i do suggest, is that you put a strong basis on vocab. it helps alot</p>
<p>very true. i hadn't even seen or heard some of the words they put on there. :eek:
practice makes perfect, i guess. <em>sighs loudly and proceeds to get out vocab list</em> lol!</p>
<p>if you're already ok at math however, pr math will bore you to tears. just a heads up. haha and they have organization issues with the classrooms....</p>
<p>lol! i'm sure they do. actually, my scores for english and math were pretty balanced so i get the added fun of working at both. yay!</p>
<p>... in the math section, i think that it's the practice that mostly helps, not the methods</p>
<p>deus, did they teach you that GIST crap? where u find the General Idea, Structure, and Tone?</p>
<p>LoL! I never do that I tend to score higher thanks to not following it. Ironic.</p>
<p>I'm doin my refresher course on the weekends, and we're crammed into some small ass room where we gotta sit on stools for 3 hrs = sore ass</p>
<p>I didnt improve too much from sophomore to junior - 1 pt.</p>
<p>But it was 232-233 so im happy :)</p>
<p>LOL, we're doing it at a community college where the desks are approximately .9834 in^2. i ignore gist as well and would like nothing better to disembowel joe bloggs.</p>
<p>I would think that anything over 190 is respectable and in the ballpark for the Ivies. 200 is even better. My son was at 226 as a 10th grader and I would expect him to be National Merit down the road since he's a good test-taker. </p>
<p>As well, you'll know by the brochures that will come in the mail.</p>
<p>Do the brochures come only if the school is considering to maybe give you chance? Because my score was low (174) and I still got good schools like Cornell and Rice.</p>
<p>"LOL, we're doing it at a community college where the desks are approximately .9834 in^2. i ignore gist as well and would like nothing better to disembowel joe bloggs."</p>
<p>heh, well it's better than mine, we gotta sit in some tiny ass room on stools, and well, that puts a strain on ur backside...</p>
<p>r u currently taking the refresher course?</p>
<p>nah, i'm taking the two month course right before the SAT's. what's hilarious though is that my scores have been in steady decline as PR stretches out. lol, i like my first diagnostic score the best.</p>
<p>Let's put it this way--after my daughter, we just put a storage bin by the front door for all the brochures for my son. My d rec'd. one a week from one school, even after she had said "not interested" -- they finally stopped in late December.</p>
<p>I have a couple of theories on college marketing: 1) Schools like to increase their application pools for the US News & WR ratings; and 2) It is flattering for a kid to hear from the great schools; thus, sometimes calling attention to themselves when otherwise they might have been dismissed. Some kids (and parents) like to go around saying "I heard from so-and-so" -- gets old when you know that some send to all viable candidates.</p>
<p>nah, i'm taking the two month course right before the SAT's. what's hilarious though is that my scores have been in steady decline as PR stretches out. lol, i like my first diagnostic score the best.</p>
<p>heh, u serious?</p>
<p>the great thing about me is that my test scores are ALWAYS higher than my rpactice ones... must be some kind of adrenaline thing, where i finally awake from my "apathetic" slumbber</p>
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<p>same here! on the practice PSAT's i only improved about 2 or 3 points from soph year, but on the real thing i improved 11. haha well i think we've found out what motivates you... now you just need to constantly be in a situation where what you're doing is timed and will determine your future, lol.</p>
<p> [quote] As well, you'll know by the brochures that will come in the mail.
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<p>very true, but don't base your entire estimate of what you got before actually receiving the scores purely on these pamphlets, because </p>
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<li><p>if you live on the west coast, it'll take a while for the pamphlets to reach you, maybe even after you get your scores</p></li>
<li><p>the type of schools you get brochures from isn't neccessarily indicative of your score either, so don't jump to conclusions</p></li>
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<p>"same here! on the practice PSAT's i only improved about 2 or 3 points from soph year, but on the real thing i improved 11. haha well i think we've found out what motivates you... now you just need to constantly be in a situation where what you're doing is timed and will determine your future, lol."</p>
<p><em>slaps forehead</em> ur a genius!</p>
<p>well it looks like all of my schoolwork fits that criteria now...</p>
<p>What's the average score a National Merit Finalist,and does anyone know what score qualifies you for the National Hispanic Scholarship? I gota <em>176 index and 83%</em> :( so I need to know how many points to bring it up to qualify. Darn math section!!!</p>
<p>SmartMexicanGirl, you probably need something in the 190s.</p>
<p>On a side note, I'm kinda nervous because one of my friends just took the PSATs this year as a junior and he DROPPED 20 points, he went from a 220 to a 200 flat. That would suck so much :(, from basically Finalist to Commended.</p>