Strange? 2008 PSAT Writing Scores

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<p>I just got my PSAT scores in and I got a total of 223. I have two questions.</p>

<li><p>My writing score was a 69 but I answered all the 39 questions and got 3 wrong. I checked several PSAT prep books and with that raw score (35) they said it would be around a 76. What is with this discrepency? Does any one else have a similar situation?</p></li>
<li><p>I live in Massachusetts. I know in the past the the cutoff for semifinalists was around 222 is there any guess what it would be this year?</p></li>
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<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>39- 3 - .75 penalty ~ 35
it's not 76 because -1 is like 4 pts off. those prep practice booklets are way off, -1 could be 80,lol in actual. no.</p>

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<p>Thanks, I knew they seemed way off but even college board's 2005 scoring table says it should have been a 73. I know it is old but it couldn't have changed that much.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/counselors/psat/understandingScores.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/counselors/psat/understandingScores.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>I got 3 wrong and got a 70 so you must have skipped one.</p>

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<p>i got 3 wrong and i got 69.....i never skipped any</p>

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<p>Conversion scores for every test are DIFFERENT, based on how difficult that test was.</p>

<p>Also, the difference between the 69/70 is the fact that the curves for the saturday and wednesday tests were DIFFERENT.</p>

<p>See a pattern here?</p>

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<p>I got one wrong and I got 76.</p>

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<p>I got 4 wrong and no ommisions...67 =(</p>

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<p>I got one wrong and lost zero points and got a 77, which is weird because on CR, I got one wrong, lost zero points and got an 80.</p>

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<p>^ It depends on other people's scores as well, CR was overall a harder section</p>