<p>Ahhh im freaking out for the psat tomorrow. im hoping itll go well and all but im still really nervous for tomorrow. </p>
<p>any advice?</p>
<p>Don’t worry.</p>
<p>Take a deep breath, look over some vocab and do the best you can! So you don’t have school tomorrow?</p>
<p>I’m taking it on Saturday.</p>
<p>I’m freaking out too. I know i’ll get a good score but I don’t know if it will meet the cut-off score for National Merit.</p>
<p>I’m really scared too. My state has a pretty high cut-off score for NMSF. I think the only thing that’s probably gonna stop me from getting a high score is Sentence Completion, which is why I’m going to study a ton of vocab today and hope for the best tomorrow.</p>
<p>Oh, I forgot to add that I have the Direct Hits books SOMEWHERE in my house and I can’t find them. This sucks. :/</p>
<p>Why is everyone freaking out over the PSAT? The only purpose it serves is a merit scholarship if you’re lucky, and it’s probably nice if you want to apply to summer programs (but you can submit an SAT or ACT).</p>
<p>I’m taking it tomorrow too, i don’t think it’s too big of a deal though.</p>
<p>Well mainly because of the National Merit Scholarship. The colleges I am looking at give out pretty generous scholarships to National Merit Scholars, since I’m not looking at really elite schools like Harvard or anything.</p>
<p>Oh ok, then that makes sense. Hopefully we both do well!</p>
<p>I’m more nervous about this test than for any other test I’ve ever taken or will ever take; I have $32,000 riding on this test.</p>
<p>I’m pretty nervous, hoping that the hard sentence completions won’t have too outlandish of words. I’ve been consistently scoring around my state’s cutoff score for this year, I just have to remember to read all the questions!!</p>
<p>This test is really worth nothing for me. All the Ivies disregard the PSAT for scholarship money and the only school that I’ll be applying to which gives only about $1500 for the PSAT thing is NYU. </p>
<p>Not worried at all. Its just gonna be a good experience before the Real SAT.</p>
<p>I’ll be highly dissapointed in myself if I fail to pass the threshold qualifying one for the $32,000 scholarships that my parent’s workplace gives to students. If it weren’t for that incentive, I don’t think the $2000 prize and application footnote would be sufficient cause to get me this nervous.</p>
<p>I’m sooo nervous! Not taking it until Saturday, but I’m still thinking about it all the time now. I’m fairly sure I won’t make National Merit (darn you, Massachusetts) but I still would really like to do well. The math section is killing me though!</p>
<p>I would be nervous lol, but I’m more concerned about my cumulative AP Biology test (I still have to cram 6 chapters into my head). Thankfully, the PSAT doesn’t count for me as a sophomore, but I still want to do well!</p>
<p>I’ll be highly dissapointed in myself if I fail to pass the threshold qualifying one for the $32,000 scholarships that my parent’s workplace gives to students. If it weren’t for that incentive, I don’t think the $2000 prize and application footnote would be sufficient cause to get me this nervous. </p>
<p>Silverturtle, your parents work for the national merit corporation?</p>
<p>GOODDD, i need this scholarship . My dream school is Yale but my stat’s, i think, won’t be sufficient; i need the money to go to another college for a relatively low cost. </p>
<p>IMMMMM NERRRRVVVOUSSS ASSS HELLL. </p>
<p>IDK what to do so im rereviewing the CB book of 10 practice tests only for the writing section though. Im almost done…</p>
<p>Fresh101, Yale, like all the Ivy schools does not give any scholarship for the PSAT. A good score can help you get that commendation award, but its not really that appealing to the admission officers.</p>
<p>@Silverturtle Wow man $32,000!!! I would be nervous as hell if I had money like that riding on this one test.</p>
<p>Fresh101, Yale, like all the Ivy schools does not give any scholarship for the PSAT. A good score can help you get that commendation award, but its not really that appealing to the admission officers</p>
<p>I know that Yale does not give any scholarship for the PSAT but im saying that if i don’t get in, i would like the scholarship money to go to another university, such as NYU.</p>
<p>HAHA, i practically passed out during my psat and as a result got really low scores (but for my sat I did much better, because I actually tried)</p>
<p>you guys are too young to worry about psat. the scholarships are a lot harder to get than scholarships from the real SATs. just live your livesssss</p>
<p>“Silverturtle, your parents work for the national merit corporation?”</p>
<p>Nope. </p>
<p>“Wow man $32,000!!! I would be nervous as hell if I had money like that riding on this one test.”</p>
<p>:(</p>