<p>The following data that I have calculated may be interesting to those who want to know their approximate percentiles in the high range of PSAT scores and to those who want rough concordances to their comparable SAT scores.</p>
<p>The percentiles that the College Board offers in the Score Reports are often coarsely rounded and vague for very high scores. For example, all scores 212 and higher are merely listed as being in the 99th percentile on the Score Report. However, the corresponding percentiles for that range (212-240) actually run from 98.50 to 99.99. </p>
<p>This is quite accurate. I received a 211 on my sophomore year PSAT and a 2190 on the subsequent SAT. I received a 217 on my junior year PSAT and a 2260 on the subsequent SAT, albeit with a 660 in Critical Reading. Good work, silverturtle!</p>
<p>Seems pretty accurate to me, and some room for leniency should be given, should the SAT be taken after the PSAT. In that case, some room for mental growth may have been available and studying could have taken place. </p>
<p>Great job on the Percentile Concordance chart thingamajig :)</p>
<p>I never intended for this to be a meaningful predictor of one’s SAT score as much as it is an indicator of how your performance on the PSAT relative to the other test-takers would translate into an SAT score. Of course, it could function as a pretty good predictor I suppose.</p>
<p>I scored 227 on the PSAT, but I can explain! I missed two Writing questions: on one, I completely misread the choice and thus picked it erroneously; on another, I picked what I thought was and continue to believe to be the correct answer (I formally petitioned it to no avail). Luckily, higher PSAT scores are irrelevant as long as you pass the NMSF threshold, unlike with the SAT and ACT.</p>
<p>Eh, it’s not a huge difference actually. Disregarding the question that I misread and the question that I petitioned, I was only one question away from 238 and two from 240. And I had scored 240 on the one PSAT practice test that I took.</p>
<p>I consider my performance on the two to be pretty comparable, except that on the PSAT I got a little unlucky (misreading the question, getting hit with what I consider to be a bad question), and on the SAT I got a little lucky (I was comfortable with all the vocabulary and did not make any silly mistakes).</p>
<p>And I can’t complain too much, as I would take 227 and 2400 over 240 and 2270 any day. :)</p>
<p>Not to dwell on myself, but I will add that the 227 was quite frustrating because I had scored 2270 as a freshman without preparing. </p>
<p>But on Ambivalent’s point, the 227 was sufficient for impressing people at my school, where very few students do well on the PSAT (because we tend to focus on the PLAN/ACT).</p>
how ironic.</p>
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