<p>what’s the California cut off?</p>
<p>Blergh… I was just looking in the HYP forums and it seems that a lot of people got over 230, even on their PSAT’s. Is this a coincidence? I’ve always heard that PSAT scores don’t count for anything besides qualifying you for National Merit, but after seeing all those 230+ PSAT scores in chance posts/accepted stats posts in the Ivy League forums, I feel pretty bad about my 216.</p>
<p>Got my scores today. I had to go into the office and ask. </p>
<p>221 (my state is KY)</p>
<p>CR - 70
M - 73
W - 78</p>
<p>Could not be happier!!!</p>
<p>^ nicee [:</p>
<p>anyways, is the cutoff 99% in the state?</p>
<p>^ It usually is. For California, I believe last year’s cutoff was somewhere around a 218.</p>
<p>fledgling, it’s not merely a coincidence, but it’s certainly not causal.</p>
<p>^ That seems like a good way to put it, lol! In any case, I guess I shouldn’t be too concerned since either way, there’s a high chance I’ll qualify for National Merit. Note to everyone else out there who’s reading this thread: whether you barely meet the NMSF cutoff for your state or score a perfect 240 on your PSAT’s, you’ll still be treated equally since colleges will never know what your exact score was. </p>
<p>In the end, it all boils down to the SAT. I’ll just have to make sure I study over winter break before January…</p>
<p>my counselor said i got a 218 and that i was in the 99%.
I live in cali, so i’m scared i didnt make it =S</p>
<p>218 in CA is a close call but I think the cutoff will be the same or lower than last year. Good luck!</p>
<p>I don’t need the questions - just the basic answer key to the Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009 PSAT - anyone who received their scores back has the key on their sheet. I know it’s a bit time consuming, but for those of us without the key, it would be a huge help if you could please post the answers. Thank you!</p>
<p>My daughter took the PSAT and is not yet 13. We would like to be able to go online to see the answer explanations and other information. We do have an access code (from her actual score report). It will not let her set up an account because she is under 13.</p>
<p>Any suggestions?</p>
<p>We had the same problem with the Duke TIP SAT. We couldn’t get a college board account for him in 7th grade.
We already have one for my older son, so I don’t know if it was age, or the fact that we had an account with same email. Did you try making a parent account? It is weird that they give you the access code, but won’t let you make an account!!</p>
<p>****************<strong><em>QUESTION</em></strong>***********************</p>
<p>My S just got PSAT score of 225 in TX. Last 3 years, 215, 215, and 216 have been state cutoffs for NMSF. I think he is in good shape, but my concern is that his math score was 98%. I thought NMSF was for top .5% in state?</p>
<p>To those who school is holding PSAT reports:</p>
<p>Tell the counselor you need to study over the holidays for the January SAT - you need to know what PSAT areas to focus on. It worked for us - we are the only ones who know our score at our school.</p>
<p>Are we sure that less juniors took the test this year than last year?</p>
<p>I simply told my counselor I was interested in my score. He had no issue with that and seemed pleased I was interested.</p>
<p>For those of you wondering, I did not need an access code for some reason. My College Quickstart somehow did not ask me for my access code. I logged into to it, and it took me directly to my 2009 score report, without asking me for my access code. I’m not sure, (this is a stab in the dark) but I think it is because on my previous SAT I have registered with my SSN. On the PSAT, I did as well. Because of this, it KNOWS that the PSAT score matches with my account, and thus does not ask for my access code. This is the case for few of my friends who could access it as well, but the majority of my school cannot.</p>
<p>Hope I provided some insight.</p>
<p>Child under 13
I called the college board and they helped me get into quickstart.
Thanks for the suggestion.</p>
<p>parental unit 3,</p>
<p>No, in fact about same number of students took the PSAT this year. The initial deduction was erroneously based on this document:</p>
<p><a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/understanding-psat-nmsqt-scores.pdf[/url]”>Higher Education Professionals | College Board;
<p>I pointed out that the number in the report 1.2 million referred to the “Number of juniors in sample”</p>
<p>Apparently, that was not evidence enough for some, so I did some more checking. I also have the 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 version of that same document. College Board emailed them to me when I bought past PSATs. In each one of documents the same language is used. For 2008 the “Number of juniors in sample” is 1,002,119. College Board has stated that 1,588,688 juniors took the PSAT in 2008.</p>
<p>[PSAT/NMSQT</a> State Summary Reports](<a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/testing/psat/scores/state]PSAT/NMSQT”>SAT Suite of Assessments – Reports | College Board)</p>
<p>I think this issue is important, because some are reasoning that if the College Board honors 55,000 with at least commended status and the number of students that took the test dropped by 400,000, then the threshold for commended status must be lower. The threshold will not meaningfully change this year because the number of juniors that took the test exceeded 1.5 million, just like last year.</p>
<p>Quote from “Understanding 2009 PSAT/NMSQT Scores” (first link):</p>
<p>Of the more than 1.5 million NMSC program entrants, about 55,000 will earn 2009 PSAT/NMSQT scores high enough to qualify them for recognition.</p>
<p>If the earlier versions of the “Understanding PSAT/NMSQT Scores” are examined it is clear that this figure (1.5 million) is referring to the number of juniors that are eligible to complete for National Merit Scholarships.</p>
<p>QED</p>
<p>i got into quickstart and read explanation for disdain/resentment. In the description for why disdain is wrong it directly says that “the boys may have felt some disdain for Hari.” hmmmm that proves disdain wrong how?</p>
<p>There is no error at (D). The noun phrase “an explanation” idiomatically follows the phrase “to search for,” and the preposition “of” idiomatically follows the noun “explanation.”</p>
<p>silverturtle thats cb’s explanation for why “explanation of” is correct.</p>