<p>You don’t need to take a real SAT for practice in order to do well on the PSAT … that sounds like overkill to me.</p>
<p>Personally, the Xiggi method doesn’t work for me. Just go through the booklet your counselor gives you, and if you’ve done SAT prep already (i.e. during the summer), that’s a definite plus.</p>
<p>What seems to be the case with everyone I know: if you got 200+ as a sophomore, you’re essentially guaranteed NMSF, as long as you don’t sit on your score doing nothing with it.</p>