<p>You can check out page 5 of this link to estimate her score. With 7 wrong, your child should have anywhere from a 217-226 depending on her test day. Good luck.
<a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/understanding-psat-nmsqt-scores.pdf[/url]”>http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/understanding-psat-nmsqt-scores.pdf</a></p>
<p>What is the answer to the specimen question? It was on the wednesday day, writing, late teens…</p>
<p>Thank you illinoisan I feel so relieved. I am sorry for starting so much anxiety. It started with curiosity and then led to worry. I thought my son missed 13 last year based on the graphs but now realize that he missed only 9- because there was overlap into multiple math sections as was mentioned earlier. When I went number by number it added up to 9 so I am convinced it is last years- its just weird that it wont go to the questions missed last year- but that’s okay.
feel free to private message me if still confused- I can walk you through it step by step</p>
<p>Don’t you have the report card for the test? Points are lost for mistakes too.</p>
<p>So if there were 2+ mistakes in an area, an additional point is removed upto 4 mistakes in that section.</p>
<p>caspiancat, if that link is for the “Understanding 2013 PSAT/NMSSQU Scores”, it has fine print that says under “points to note” that the percentiles are based on 2012. I was stressing last night thinking that the 99 percentile has gone up from last year, but it actually was last year’s percentiles.</p>
<p>Yankee Belle, your link is the one I mentioned in my post above - and the fine print says percentiles are for 2012. Let’s hope the 2013 curve is better!</p>
<p>Could someone else look at the link and see if you agree with me? I’ve read the Points to Note a few times and it seems to indicate the percentiles are based on 2012 but what do the rest of you think? More evidence is that the College Board website has a link to state data for 2012 and previous years, and each state’s report shows the total juniors taking the test in 2012 to be 1,551,095 and 1,585,611 sophomores. But those are the exact numbers shown on the “Understanding 2013 PSAT/NMSQT Scores” report in Yankee Belle’s link. So all of that makes me think the percentiles are for 2012. I looked back at my son’s sophomore scores to see if the percentiles match up, but for his scores last year (2012), the percentiles were the same for 2012 and 2011, so I could neither confirm or disprove my theory.</p>
<p>My school still has not released scores…</p>
<p>The curve, how many points off for each wrong question, is for the 2013 PSAT.
texaspg: Each wrong answer (except fill in the blank and omits) counts for 1.25 points. If you have 1 or 2 wrong, you only lose 2 points. If you have 3 or 4 wrong, you lose 1 additional point.</p>
<p>There are some wrongs (grid ins in Math) that have no negative points.</p>
<p>@MovingtoTexas</p>
<p>The answer to the specimen question was D, which was “region, labeled them, and arranged them”.</p>
<p>gwang9787</p>
<p>Could you tell me what E said???</p>
<p>Barfly:</p>
<p>I read the link too and I totally agree with you. The percentiles are based on last yr’s test - they can’t release percentiles without releasing the test score cutoffs for each yr. </p>
<p>Also to check this, I looked at my PSAT scores of last year. They didn’t match, for I missed 1 in math - I should have gotten a 78 with that curve, but I only got a 76. </p>
<p>So, the percentiles are from last year, but the curve for the test - meaning the 80, 79, 75 for reading and so on for math/writing are all this yr’s. The answer key is also this yr’s… </p>
<p>Oh I am so happy it is not 225-220 as 99+, cuz that means I might be screwed up for National merit! Now I have hope… My school district probably has the score reports and is not giving it to our school for some reason, for my school gives the reports as soon as it gets it. </p>
<p>UGH I HAVE TO WAIT SO LONG!!!</p>
<p>The percents are different… My score was 91% for juniors last year, and is now 90% for juniors with the same score this year</p>
<p>@MovingtoTexas</p>
<p>E read “region, then she labeled and arranged them”.</p>
<p>Do colleges look at PSAT?</p>
<p>They do if you want them to. Obviously if you get above the benchmark you’ll receive national merit recognition (either commended, semi-finalist, or finalist) which colleges see. But as I’ve come to believe (correct me if I’m wrong) you can send your specific score to two select colleges.</p>
<p>Commended and above scorers used to be able to name two schools that NMSC would then notify of their interest but I don’t know that they ever got actual scores and I believe that program has been dropped now anyway. I do not think any colleges get PSAT scores, just lists of students who score at or above the commended range.</p>
<p>Actually, they probably get lists of National Achievement and National Hispanic finalists also.</p>
<p>WasteOfUsername, I think that may be because last year’s percentile was also based on the previous year’s score. Until 2012, the wording was different. For example, on the “Understanding 2011 PSAT/NMSQT Scores” report, it says “Percentiles are based on…juniors…who took the PSAT/NMSQT in 2011”. But starting with the 2012 report and on the current 2013 report, it says “Percentiles are based on…juniors…who took the PSAT/NMSQT in the previous year”. </p>
<p>But here’s what I don’t understand. Maybe someone smart can figure this out. If the 2011 percentiles are based on 2011 scores, and the 2012 percentiles are based on “the previous year”, i.e. the 2011 scores, then shouldn’t the percentiles on the 2011 and 2012 score reports be identical? But they are not!</p>
<p>Our school got them today too, everyone’s talking about it.</p>