<p>Kid is IN! So happy–and relieved!</p>
<p>My GC said scores will be given out at lunch on Monday or Tuesday. I’ll have to wait over the weekend but at least I know now.</p>
<p>PSAT sophomore year: 165 (HAHAHA)
PSAT Junior year: 205</p>
<p>scored 230, will this be a qualifying score in CA?</p>
<p>The CA cutoff shouldn’t be over 220, so 230 is a safe score.</p>
<p>@JennyChin congrats to you too! I’m mostly worried about my essay - which was miserable - and again, the math. Besides, my PSAT score could have just been a fluke!</p>
<p>Can someone help me? </p>
<p>I’m a junior and got a 184 this year and got a 155 last year as a sophomore. Is there hope for me to get a 2100 on the real SAT?</p>
<p>There’s always hope. It depends on where the problems are (which will let you identify where you can improve), and if you’re willing to work to improve it. Getting a prep book, reading through the important areas that are relevant to the areas where you are struggling, and then practicing, specifically practicing those areas where you have lower scores, has the potential to do miracles on your grade. Some people might say that the PSAT is harder than the SAT, but I think that the opposite is true, at least this time (My PSAT was 120 higher than the SAT, and I took them in the same week). </p>
<p>If you’re not willing to work to improve your scores, I’ll say that there is no hope for a jump of that amount. If you’re willing to work, I’d say that there is hope.</p>
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<p>I think what they mean by that is that, because there are fewer questions on the PSAT, any careless mistake has a larger effect on the overall score. That is, the range that your score is likely to fall in will be larger for the PSAT, so it’s harder to consistently score well.</p>
<p>Feh… I hate careless mistakes.</p>
<p>One more week!</p>
<p>Five more days!</p>
<p>I got a 212 (73 R 72 M 67 W) and the last 2 years the cutoff in florida was 210 and 211 (but it went as high as 215 in the last 5-6 years). Chances for national merit? </p>
<p>Also, on the score report percentile section, it said that the scores were slightly higher…</p>
<p>To understand (or not) PSAT/SAT correlation–
D’s scores when she took SAT and PSAT a week apart this fall:</p>
<p>SAT (Oct 9):
M:540 V:650 W:590 (9 essay)</p>
<p>PSAT (Oct 16)
M: 530 V: 680 W: 710</p>
<p>Obviously math is close. Verbal within the same range. But writing–? (and I don’t even think a 9 essay should bring the combined score down.)</p>
<p>^Maybe she got some MC questions on the SAT on certain topics that she couldn’t answer that weren’t tested on the PSAT (simply because of luck). It happens.</p>
<p>Does anybody know in which state a boarding school student’s scores are considered?</p>
<p>I attend a southern boarding school, and may or may not have put that address on my registration. It would be in my best interest to be compared with my boarding school’s state, because my state (MD) has a fairly higher score cuttoff</p>
<p>I know this is a pretty stupid question. But I really can’t seem to find the answer anywhere. The only info that I have seen on boarding schools are for the “new england” variety. Again, I attend a southern boarding school.</p>
<p>The boarding school scores are treated in an ageographic block, much like the internationals. It has tended to run very high–like the low 220s. Backtrack last year’s threads for the best intell.</p>
<p>My school won’t release the scores until next week’s Tuesday!!! =[ I’m really hoping to make it to NM although I know I did worse on the October PSAT than the October SAT (Ironic I know!)</p>
<p>I have to admit, the PSAT really helped with SAT score! Without taking the PSAT in 9th grade and getting a horrible score, I would never be motivated to study for the SAT!</p>
<p>I got 218 (74R 73M 71W) and I’m from NY. Of all the people I talked to I was the highest, but one person who took it a different day got 235. Are the tests on different days easier/harder than others? Also, I’m about on the midline for making the cut, correct?</p>
<p>^I think the curves for Form S and Form W were posted somewhere back in this thread. Basically, if one form is harder than another, the curve will reflect the difference in difficulty.</p>
<p>Is the percentile for “Commended” always the same each year? Is it 95% or 96%?</p>