<p>College board says to add a zero to the PSAT to predict your SAT. So a 200 on PSAT, which ranks in the 96th percentile and qualifies as NM Commended, translates into a 2000 on the SAT, which would not be anywhere near what is needed to get into the top LACs etc. Is this "adding the zero" realistic? Comments anyone?</p>
<p>For most people, it’s not a good means of projection. Some people do worse on the SAT than PSAT; some do better. On average, people’s scores go up from the PSAT equivalent. </p>
<p>The average PSAT score is in the low 140’s, whereas the average SAT score is about 1500.</p>
<p>If you got 200 without studying and you don’t feel that you got lucky in many places, 2100+ with preparation is realistic.</p>
<p>Usually your SAT scores are actually higher than your PSAT scores, adding the extra 0 is almost never accurate.</p>
<p>I checked Naviance and noticed a very large discrepancy (increase) between the PSAT scores and the SAT scores, college by college, for the database of students within our S’s school. Assuming that his school is representative of the general public, I am making the assumption that the increase can be as high as 200 to 300 points over the PSAT. That makes more sense to me!</p>
<p>How is it possible that I got a 80 on the PSAT CR section but a 620 on the actual SAT? Anyone?</p>
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<p>There are fewer questions on the PSAT, so scores are more susceptible to variation. You also might have got luckier with the vocabulary.</p>