<p>Yeah, if they had a national standard, I think that less and less students in the “lower cutoff” states would take the test, which would push the score further and further up over time.</p>
<p>I thought every junior has to take the test, is this not true?</p>
<p>No, you take it if you want; I don’t think College Board can force every junior in the nation to pay 14 dollars to spend 2 hours of their life sweating over a standardized test.
So it was a really easy math section?
Is it possible to get a 70 for -3 MC? Or is that too generous a curve for this test? Because I checked the 2011 curve and that was it, but this was probably a lot easier?</p>
<p>Wait, doesn’t everybody take it at school though.</p>
<p>No, technically you could stay at home
Some schools might require that juniors take it, though</p>
<p>@crazy tina, back to your other point, it is possible that you can get a 70 because maybe we are all imagining it was easier because we gained a year in knowledge so it is supposed to be easier. </p>
<p>However, if I remember correctly last year, there seemed to be a lot of tricks in math. This year it was pretty straightforward.</p>
<p>At our school only about half of the juniors took it. Classes were still in session for those who didn’t test.</p>
<p>my school forced all sophomores to take it.</p>
<p>Which makes no sense since half of them don’t care at all about their future. I think they should have made the honors/pre-ap/high rank take it. But all sophomores? What a waste IMO</p>
<p>Pandatennis-Thanks for your help! I hope they have a un-terrifying curve this year haha
Kimmylouie-Perhaps they are trying to encourage sophomores to “gaf”</p>
<p>Yeah, at our school, all juniors and all sophomores have to take it.</p>
<p>crazytina: that’s what I thought, but when I got on the bus and heard most sophomores say “holy crap, I’m definitely not going to college. that was hard!”</p>
<p>I lost all hope</p>
<p>At my school, 15 juniors took it. No sophomores. Lol…</p>
<p>Do you guys know if there is some way to find out the answers before December? Not our scores, just the answers.</p>
<p>As someone from Arkansas, with a 202-207 (ish) cutoff generally, I definitely can see how everyone else would be upset and think it’s unfair. But I’m also incredibly grateful for it. In addition to leveling the field to account for education quality and geographic diversity of winners, I think it’s partially about the money; NMSF is, after all, primarily a scholarship program. For a lot of us in “lower” states, we have no prestigious in-state school that we could get those discounts for, so if we wanted to go to a more academically stimulating university, we have to look out-of-state or private, which are very expensive. National Merit can help with that.</p>
<p>EDIT: I also realize no one’s talking about this anymore in this thread but I felt it had to be said. :P</p>
<p>LOL I’m reading over this and I don’t remember any of it appearing on the PSAT. xDD
I fail at life.</p>
<p>Kimmylouie: I know right. Even a lot of juniors at my school dgaf and were surprised to know that the test is graded on a curve. And they thought getting over 220 is easy (“but you only lose 1/4 point for a wrong answer!”)</p>
<p>Is there any way I can cancel my PSAT scores?? This willl be extremely embarassing when we get our scores back in advisory class.
So I did well on the PSAT practice test a month ago but somehow I got stumped on this test?
Like I’m already for sure already got -9 on CR and -6 on math and -4 on writing…and that’s reallyyy bad.</p>
<p>@megan702</p>
<p>Yes, but I don’t think you should.</p>
<p>-2 Math (2 wrong, no omits)
-4 CR (3 wrong, no omits)
-6 writing (5 wrong, no omits)</p>
<p>Anyone care to estimate my score?</p>
<p>Do you guys already know how many you got wrong, or are you guys just estimating based on prior tests?</p>