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<p>Hey, guys. We all took the PSAT this year, and having talked to a lot of my friends, and having taken the test myself, I think the test was overall a bit harder than normal. The dilemma is that I’m about 4 points lower than the average national merit semifinalist cutoff for my state. However, having compared the percentiles I got for my scores, I think that the scores are all a bit lower this year. Do you guys think that the difficulty of the PSAT this year is enough to make the cutoffs for a lot of states 4+ points lower than normal?</p>

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<p>Unfortunately, no. I don’t see it gravitating more than 1-2 points.</p>

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<p>Sophomore PSAT 204 -> Junior PSAT 219 -> SAT 2100 -> SAT 2290</p>

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<p>Freshman year PSAT: 184
Sophomore year PSAT: 194
Junior year PSAT: 228!!!</p>

<p>CR 71 (5 wrong)
M 77 (1 wrong)
W 80</p>

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<p>@Mystic</p>

<p>I’m hoping the same. I’m deadly close to the cutoff. 1 point higher than the highest cutoff ever. >.<</p>

<p>Oh yeah, and success story… I raised my score 18 points. YAY! :smiley: Math alone went up by 9.</p>

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<p>My son’s success story:
Sophomore: 168
Junior this year: 223!
55 points improvement, thanks to CC & his hard work</p>

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<p>My daughter got 218 this year as a sophomore. What is the cut off score for Texas?</p>

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<p>sophomore year 187
junior year 240.</p>

<p>had some luck in there, but also a lot of SAT prep.</p>

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<p>^ Wow
10char</p>

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<p>^^, WOW … speechless.</p>

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<p>ILackKnowledge, Congratulations! You said lots of SAT prep. How did you prepare?
Could you give some detailed tips and recommend books, especially for CR.
I want my daughter to prepare as much as she can.
Thank you in advance.</p>

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<p>207 sophomore to 223 junior, even though my writing score went down 10 points, thanks to the lovely curve from this year’s Wednesday test. I had a fair amount of prep over the summer though, and thus substantially improved my math and cr score.</p>

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<p>191-Fresh
216-Soph
221-Jun</p>

<p>Hardly studied, so maybe I actually learned something at school?</p>

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<p>203 - Freshman
227 - Sophomore</p>

<p>No studying, weird huh?</p>

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<p>@cooking</p>

<p>there’s a lot of things you can do. I think the most beneficial for me was memorizing vocab. Each SAT book should have a list of important vocab cards that is very useful. In terms of prep, I took about 14 days of classes for it (once a week in the summer), which isn’t much compared to kids that go every day during the summer but it still helped me a lot. Though having a teacher teach could be useful, I found constant practice to be more practical.</p>

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<p>^ I know this guy. He’s in my AP Physics class. We agree some luck was involved.
A lot of it has to do with not making stupid mistakes (main reason for my 221). Also, for Writing, DO NOT rely on your ear. It’s not always accurate.</p>

<p>Vocab is crucial. Finding a list of 1000 vocab words and studying them helps (I studied them the week before, and only about 300 of them, but it still helped). I didn’t study much else and went up from 201.</p>

<p>Also, here’s a guide to studying that I looked at yesterday: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/955109-silverturtles-guide-sat-admissions-success.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/955109-silverturtles-guide-sat-admissions-success.html&lt;/a&gt;
Though you might have seen it already.</p>

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<p>soph: 227
junior: 240
sat: 2360</p>

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<p>sophomore- 191
junior-231
yay</p>

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<p>155
180
206
10char</p>

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<p>Sophomore: 183 (CR was a fail at 50)
Junior: 207 (CR went up to 67!)</p>

<p>What I learned: reading is good.</p>