<p>Don't worry about your PSAT score too much. As long as you work really hard to study for the SAT, you will improve remarkably.
I had a ~190 on my PSAT and ended up scoring 2300+ on the SAT. However, that came with about a 2 full months of soft studying for the SAT prior and hell week during spring break. Focus, and you'll get what you want :D</p>
<p>Same thing here. I had a 162 PSAT and scored an 1830 first try on the SAT and plan to close in on a 2000 sometime soon</p>
<p>Here are the statistics from College Board.
The answer is, it depends on your starting point and what you did between Jr. PSAT and spring SAT.
<a href=“Understanding PSAT/NMSQT Scores - SAT Suite”>College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools;
<p>I got a 221 on the sophomore PSAT, and a 2140 on my sophomore SAT a couple months later.
On my junior PSAT, I got a 226, and on my November SAT I got a 2270.
So for me, there was actually a pretty strong similarity in scores. </p>
<p>In October of my sophomore year I got a 165, junior year was 175. After about 2 months of studying, I got a 2130 on the March SAT. Without any studying, my first practice SAT test was a 2080. So I don’t think there was much of a similarity for me. </p>
<p>acaifrosh,
that was because you studied between jr psat and jr sat.
CB stats show average total increase of 55. Most probably don’t do any “real prep”. You can’t use practice test results as a comparable.
What you showed, if you study, etc you can increase your score significantly.</p>
<p>Sophomore and Junior Year PSAT both 161, SAT score 1860. Most people improve? But a fair few… don’t. Or stagnate. </p>
<p>Sophomore year I got a 160, Junior year it rose to 181 and my SAT in March was an 1850. i’d say it was a good indicator if my scores in different sections weren’t completely flipped. My strong suits in the psat were always cr and writing and my math was my lowest because I’m a junior and only in Algebra 2. On my first SAT in march, my Math score decimated my CR and W which was something I did not expect. My writing had always been my highest but in march it became my lowest.</p>
<p>My SATs were much higher than my PSATs without toooo much extra studying. Part of it is familiarity with the format, I think.</p>
<p>Practice tests gave me accurate predictions for what I was going to get on the real thing.
I got in the 50s for Math PSAT. I took a practice SAT 3 months later and got a 770 (with no studying, just to gauge where I was). </p>
<p>I actually have no idea why my math score drastically increased without any studying after 3 months… I think the PSAT math was harder. Writing/Reading sections were pretty similar though. </p>
<p>My PSAT went from 150’s to 170’s to 190’s from frosh to junior year. My SAT remained stagnant on the 2000-2100 range; I never prepped though, except for some light online reading on time strategies.</p>