<p>Please forgive such an embarrassingly ignorant question--</p>
<p>My S (grade 10) took the PSAT in Oct. When and how do we find out the results? I assumed that since he is not a HS senior (or jr, for that matter), that his scores would be reported last. However, we haven't gotten anything by snail mail, or by email (I registered my own email address on College Board-- not sure what he put down as contact info on the test but I will ask him.)</p>
<p>Thanks for any enlightenment.</p>
<p>Bflo, the only PSAT that counts is the junior-year PSAT. Our school releases them in January, even though they have them in December. I assume that’s because they don’t want tons of questions while they’re still trying to get college apps finished up for the seniors.</p>
<p>The scores are sent to the school and more than likely, the school has had them for a few weeks. If your kid’s high school is like my sons’ were, because the GCs are busy now helping seniors with college and scholarship applications – many of which are due around Jan. 1, the GCs will delay giving PSAT scores to students until after the holidays. Then the GCs will have a chance to talk to the juniors, sophs, etc. about what the PSAT scores mean.</p>
<p>Thanks, youdon’tsay & northstarmom! Looks like I will have to wait, although patience has never been one of my virtues…</p>
<p>We got PSAT’s (also 10th grader) mailed from the school over the weekend.</p>
<p>It’s the same here as YDS and NSM - the HS has the scores but won’t distribute them to students until January, first to juniors and then to sophomores (D2’s class).</p>
<p>BfloGal - I’m like you, not a lot of patience. So it was a real treat when I was volunteering in the HS office last week and the principal wandered over and told me D’s score ;)</p>
<p>D2 received her PSAT scores last week. It has a very detailed break down of what she go twrong and how she could improve - if they could see a pattern (algebra vs geometry). They also show how the student compare with other 10th graders. You should just add a 0 after the score to compare it to potential SAT score. If it’s 65, then it’s 650.</p>
<p>We haven’t gotten them yet here in South Florida. My son is also a 10th grader. Our school gave them out to the kids last year, mid December, in class. The college board website says that they will be available online in mid December. If your child took them last year and you have an access code from those scores you could set up an account online at college board for your child…the new scores will post to that online account.</p>
<p>Just got off the phone with the HS guidance counselor. Info will be presented to the sophomores in an assembly on Dec 16, and they will bring home their original booklet and score. Not sure why the school is having such fanfare-- just mail the score home!</p>
<p>Last year, when my oldest DD was a junior and I knew (thanks to CC!) that they would “count” our HS didn’t actually distribute the PSAT scores to students until after winter break (2nd week in January) even though they had them in hand back in December. I understand that much better now, since DD is now a Senior and I see how busy the GC’s are with recs & transcripts etc. for seniors. </p>
<p>However, I did nicely email her GC before Winter Break, since DD had gotten an email saying the scores were available but we didn’t have the code she needed. She checked and sent it to me and I was able to relax over Christmas knowing that she’d made the cut for NMSF.</p>
<p>This year my freshman DD took the PSAT’s and I have no problem waiting till January; 2 years from now though …:)</p>
<p>You can get them online “mid-December”. Apparently easiest if you have already set up a “My College QuickStart” account, with a previous years score report code. That’s how WE got them last year, well in advance of the school sending them out last year.</p>
<p>Yes; what RobD is referring to.</p>
<p>Okay maybe my sense of humor is a little juvenile-but I just got a giggle reading from left to right on the title of this thread…“PSAT: When? How? Today, by shrinkrap” !!</p>
<p>I just set up the Quickstart account like shrinkrap described for DS. I had his access code from his 9th grade PSAT. We should get an email from the college board when the scores are available online.</p>
<p>For what its worth, last year’s email from College Board advising that PSAT scores were now available online went out December 14 (or at least that is when I got it).</p>
<p>My son took the PSAT for the first time this year (11th grade). He already has a College Board account because he’s taken the SAT for CTY. (Those scores have disappeared, though, because he took them before 9th grade.) Will the PSAT scores appear on this account, or does he need to somehow set up another one? I am sure that the school will not have time to deal with PSAT scores until January.</p>
<p>My daughter came home with her’s today.</p>
<p>We had a PSAT of Critical reading: 72, 99th percentile
Writing skills: 70, 99th percentile
Math: 58, 89th percentile
Total: 200, 96th percentile</p>
<p>A good deal of the Math was testing on courses still to be taken in the Sophomore year.
Sophomore student was in 96th percentile for college bound juniors.</p>
<p>If I want to calculate a potential SAT score, can I do X * 800, where X = the percentile and 800 equals the highest possible SAT score.</p>
<p>If so, I come up with a potential SAT score of: 2296</p>
<p>Just wanted to make sure there wasn’t a fallacy in my rationale.</p>
<p>CookieDoughLuva: I know what you’re trying to do (extrapolate out your child’s current percentile to the equivalent SAT percentile) but you’re using a junior year percentile vs. a sophomore year percentile. You might want to look at <a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools; for examples of the percentages for sophomores.</p>
<p>Try this link instead; it’s for 2009: <a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/understanding-psat-nmsqt-scores.pdf[/url]”>Higher Education Professionals | College Board;
<p>I’m a sophomore and I received my scores yesterday. I’ve heard that East Coast schools usually get them earlier, but it really depends on how your school decides to manage them. Some schools don’t pass out the scores/exams until January.</p>