<p>suave:
I would not be worried. In 10th grade, I scored a 168 on the PSAT. After I did a few practice tests in the College Board's "The Official SAT Study Guide: For the New SAT," my Junior PSAT was a 2080.
And don't think you will have to practice day and night. I just did half of the tests in the book over a 1 year period.</p>
<p>Practice consistently and you should do fine. Good luck!</p>
<p>Kchen-I took it this year I think in November. I agree it is much easier than the PSAT but with my luck I probably failed.
I still haven't gotton my scores back</p>
<p>Don't worry, I got 171 as a sophomore and 209 as a unior. I started reading a whole lot more, but no prep other than that. </p>
<p>BTW, I go to school in the south bronx too :P
But you can probably guess what school it is if I say that we had plenty of people get over 200 as sophomores...</p>
<p>Suave, don't worry. The SAT and PSAT are easily coachable, and I would advise you get a prep book or two and work through them. If you've never seen PSAT/SAT before taking it, I can understand having a little trouble. However, you've been warned now. You have about a year to prepare(plenty of time). Furthermore, you have time to do the strategies that work, like reading a ton. So don't worry, but don't slack off.</p>
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You'll get them soon. The PLAN test takers at my school got them yesterday.</p>
<p>One year is a long time....</p>
<p>Everyone can go up from a 160 to a 230...really.</p>
<p>It's just some people don't put that much importance on the PSAT...</p>
<p>Man i dont get why you guys are complaining cause i got a bad score which is 136!!!</p>
<p>I got 197 this year. (62 C.R., 64 Math, and 71 Writing)
Although I should be happier, I am depressed by the Critical Reading score in particular...</p>
<p>I got a 200 which sort of frustrated me because it was close to commended which I at least wanted. Pretty far from NJ cut off though. (70 writing, 68 CR (very happy with that), 62 math (mad about that--i can do so much better on math))</p>
<p>Wow mcz your scores are almost identical to mine, since I got 197, too. o_O. The only difference is I got one higher on C.R. and one lower on writing.</p>
<p>198.... 72+56:(+70</p>
<p>217... Junior. National Merit Semifinalist almost certainly.</p>
<p>"217... Junior. National Merit Semifinalist almost certainly."
how do you know how high it needs to be for national merit semifinalist?
i got 223</p>
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<li>Highest in my class by eight (sophomore) but jesus CHRIST I bubbled two questions wrong on math. Oy vey, that feels dumb.</li>
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<p>NM semifinalist qualifying scores vary by state; search for last year's and you'll have a good idea.</p>
<p>to OP(I figured out what it stands for!): since you've never seen the SATs before then there's obviously lots of room for improvement. Between sophomore and junior year I just worked on the Official SAT book, and learned some more stuff from classes too, and my score went up 27 points. </p>
<p>So no worries! And it's not like your score this year affects any monetary thing anyways, so even LESS worries!</p>
<p>Not to brag, but then again, it wouldn't be bragging because these aren't very good. CR 58, Math 59, Writing, an amazing 60! (I got a really low score on the practice) I only studied for the week before and when I took it, I was just starting Geometry.</p>
<p>dont worry... seriously. IT WILL go up junior year. most of my friends score went up 20-30 points. Mine went up a whole 35 point!! and that is with MINIMUM prep..</p>
<p>YEAH! Class of 2008!! :D</p>
<p>Anyway. I'm pretty disappointed with my score too, I got a 201. Time to start studying for the real thing next year... =[</p>