<p>Hey guys! Im a rising sophomore and i just took my first PSAT from the college board. Now, before you say I'm too young or something like that, i didn't WANT to take this test, its just that my sister just started college counseling and her counselor told my parents that i should take the online test just to see where I am. I myself, wasn't too thrilled about taking a 4 hour test on a saturday. Anyway, i just got the results, and here they are:
Reading: 680
Writing: 730 (MC: 68, Essay: 12)
Math: 640
Now are these good results for a rising sophomore? Im confident i could get my Math grade up, its just that i haven't been doing math for 3 months (ohh summer ). But are these okay? (Okay, edit point here. I know these are okay. I know that they are high above the national average. Im talking about are they good for someone who eventually wants to get a 2300+ come Junior year?) The Total in 2050. I've just seen so many awesome PSAT and SAT scores on CC that its made my confidence go down maybe?
Thanks for your time!
(Note: I previously [as in 5 minutes ago] posted this on the SAT prep forum but just rethought it and reposted it here, so I'm sorry if this double post is annoying, promise it won't happen again!)</p>
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<p>U took sat or psat??</p>
<p>Delete your collegeconfidential account for the next year and a half. Go play outside. Enjoy your time in high school, don’t do everything just to get into college. Your scores are great, don’t worry about those tests until junior year. Just by having a CC account you’re wasting your teen years when you could be doing something worthwhile. Stop worrying about tests and join a club, play a sport, conduct independent research on a subject that interests you. Get really passionate about something in the next year and a half, so enthralled by it that it’s all you want to do in life. What high school students forget is that there is life after college and there is life IN college. You want to be at the best school for YOU, where your passion can thrive, not the best school for US News and World Report. Enjoy the three years left of high school and the four years you will have of college, only after that should you really be worrying about your adult life. Your score is great, now put down that Princeton Review book and hide it in the closet for a year.</p>
<p>^^SonicCare, sorry i took the SAT, complete with the essay etc, it was the Official Practice SAT on college board.
^chunkylover54, i love hearing from people like you because i know in my heart that your right. On the other hand, i live in a competitive environment, with competitive friends and siblings, and go to a competitive school, and the essential fact of the matter is: this makes me feel better. Having college and tests as a goal to work towards makes me feel accomplished. I don’t do anything i do in terms of extracurriculars to impress colleges, i do what i like and commit myself, but i am still interested in doing my best and ultimately working my way to my dream college, but i respect your point of view.</p>
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<p>I think it’s an awesome score! The thing is, it’s kinda hard to predict your SAT score with one PSAT score (you could have been lucky or unlucky). I’m sure if you study well/do your best in school, getting a 2300+ on the SAT should be a good goal for you. Reading is definitely the hardest to improve, and math and writing are easier. So basically just do a lot of good practice for writing and math. If you have an year or more, just study the basic grammar rules, read a lot, and make a notebook to write down math problems you don’t understand. Good luck!</p>
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<p>^Thanks mathguy!! Awesome links! I forgot to mention this, but i accidentally said PSAT, this was an actual SAT, albeit a practice one. Any other input?</p>
<p>All the SAT does is get your IN the door. Focus on ECs and doing somethin meaningful or participating and winning competitions or honors which actually get you ACCEPTED</p>
<p>^Thanks for the input! Rest-assured i know that the SAT is far from the most important factor in admissions, but it is a factor, and i would like to pin it down and secure it ASAP to the best of my ability. Other opinions?</p>
<p>Better than mine. I took the PLAN, a practice PSAT, in the beginning of soph year and got a 1930. Granted, I’m an idiot.</p>
<p>Good job though. Seriously, don’t stress. Just make sure you keep reading. :)</p>
<p>Thanks! By the way, i was told in another thread that it would be useful if i provided my essay, so here it is:
The prompt was should people make an effort to keep information private?
People should not make an effort to keep information private, because if and when the information is discovered, it can be detrimental to all parties. Several examples from current events and literary works clearly demonstrate that secrecy has close ties to misfortune.</p>
<p>In the recent wiki-leaks case, hundreds of top-secret government information was released through a series of leaks and slip-ups arranged by the infamous Julian Assange. The release of these secrets, many to do with foreign interaction overseen by the United States Department of State, was detrimental to US foreign policy, and ended up weakening and testing ties with foreign governments and international entities. Those who would defend the United States secrecy could claim that it was in the interest of our national security to maintain such high-profile and dangerous information as covert, but the argument that this information should have been made available to the public far outweighs the counter-position. If the Department of State had instead decided to make the information accessible the foreign governments and citizens alike, the content of the letters and documents would not have been as shocking nor as harmful to our international relationships. Our foreign counterparts would have been able to know our complaints about them, and our praises of them, all while feeling grateful for us having let them know what we were thinking. Therefore, as exemplified by the WikiLeaks incident, by maintaining secrets and attempting to keep information private, the release of the covert content itself has a much more unfortunate impact than if it has been made known all along. </p>
<p>In of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, the secrets that George keeps about Lenny from the rest of the men on the farm leads to numerous deaths and other unfortunate outcomes. George keeps Lenny’s past killings a secret so as to let him work at the farm and therefore generate an income that could go towards George and Lenny’s dream of having a farm together. However, by keeping Lenny’s dangerous nature a secret and instead only exposing him as a strong and gentle fellow, he allows the rest of the farm community to approach and interact with Lenny in ways that activate his anger and cause widespread misfortune and danger. Through these interactions, which were made permissible by George’s decision to keep Lenny’s past a secret, Lenny ends up killing a series of animals, a woman, and ultimately, himself. If George had revealed Lenny’s nature to the men on the farm, they would most likely not hire him, and potentially even attempt to have him arrested, but at least his life would be spared as would countless others. Therefore, through analyzing the effects of George’s secret in Of Mice and Men, we can see that trying to avoid unfortunate outcomes by keeping information secret, can often lead to far more serious results. </p>
<p>Lastly, in the play The Children’s Hour, by Lillian Hellman, Rosalie keeps a secret that involves her theft of another child’s prize possession. When discovered by the main antagonist, Mary, Mary uses the secret as blackmail to coerce Rosalie into compliance with her malicious plans, showing another negative aspect of keeping information private. Rosalie had, before the start of the play, stolen a piece of jewelry from another girl at the school Mary and she attended. When the mother of the other student found out, she threatened the unknown thief very heavily, inducing Rosalie to go into a panic, making her keep the secret that she had stolen the necklace. However, when Mary finds out, she threatens to expose Rosalie unless she does what she tells her to do, and, Rosalie, scared of being found out, reluctantly complies. So when mary spins a lie that her teachers (both female ) are having intimate relationships with one another so she doesn’t have to go back to school and calls in Rosalie as a witness, Rosalie agrees, crying all the while. This lie results in the school being closed and the suicide of one of the teachers, all because Rosalie testified that a lie was the truth. Finally, when Rosalie is found out, she admits the truth and the situation is mended the best possible, but the damage had already been done. Rosalie’s secret is a perfect example of how keeping information private can subject one to the desires of another through blackmail, and further reveals the detrimental nature of secrecy. </p>
<p>Through all these examples one can see that throughout literature and current events, secrecy and over-zealous privacy can only results in misery and misfortune. Therefore, as exemplified by Julian Assange, Of Mice and Men, and the Children’s Hour, secrecy is detrimental.</p>
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<p>Sorry, forgot to mention that i went into this cold, no studying whatsoever. However, i have a strict 3 hour a day regiment planned out with really well recommended books from my sisters (high scorers on the SATs) and College Confidential to use when game time comes around. Just wanted to put these scores into perspective.</p>
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<p>That is a fantastic score for a rising sophomore. From sophomore to junior year, your score could very easily increase 100 points from natural increase in academic ability alone. With a strict study regimen, you could definitely be scoring in the 2250+ range by the time the real thing comes around. </p>
<p>You should set aside one month of regimented study for each 100 point gain you want. This means if your goal is for a 2300, you should start studying roughly 2.5 months beforehand. </p>
<p>It is important to give yourself time in studying because it gives you some wiggle room if you are busy a couple weeks here and there. Also, if you review over a longer period of time, it allows your mind to process the information your studied with much greater recall than cramming.</p>