Haha. No kidding! I hope they sit down for the Bluebook practice PSAT and report back.
Meh, my kid got 1520 on Bluebook practice test but 1490 on actual PSAT so I’m still not convinced it’s aligned.
That IS aligned. It could be the difference of 1 question. Two max.
My daughter took the 11th grade psat in 10th grade a couple of years back and many others did as well. School gave them out. Dk why. She also took the 10th grade psat that year as well.
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our school gives “the 11th grade” psat to 10th graders too. 9th graders get the PSAT 8/9 here.
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Our school does not offer PSAT 8/9. In this situation, where and how do you go about taking this on your own? Thanks!
You can find a list of schools in your area giving the tests on the college board website and call and ask if they accept outside test takers, I tried in the fall for my S27 but was unsuccessful.
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Ours doesn’t either. It’s no big deal. There is no need for those tests.
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My kid took the DSAT practice exam today and in her college board account the practice score is a 1520, what are the expectations for her to get similar score on the actual DSAT this Spring?
Reasonable, but could easily swing 50 points in either direction. At that level gains are less likely than loses. Either would be considered within range.
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anecdotally, my kid scored 30 points lower on the dPSAT than the bluebook dPSAT practice exam
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I learned that our school would do the same, e.g. giving the 11th grade (Fall/October) PSAT to 10th grade as a practice, not as an official scored test, and it would be proctored by an independent third-party. The PSAT 10 happens in the Spring, so students are further along in their 10th grade progress, closer to the end of the academic year.
If your child is scoring 1450+ on the digital PSATs, approximately how many questions are they answering incorrectly? I am seeing that even a few wrong answers drops you down to the 1200-1300 range. Anyone else?
2 questions incorrect on the verbal section may result in a score of 720. 1 question incorrect on math may result in a score of 780. There are likely scoring differences between tests and likely among administrations.
Depends on what a “few” means, but likely fewer than 3 questions incorrect on the entire test are required for NMSQT semi-finalist consideration in competitive states / international.
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Or may result in a 740/760 (760 is the max score) or a 730/750. Missing an “easy” question will doc more points than missing a “hard” question.
As @HNH pointed out, “few” is relative. It would also be helpful to know the breakdown.
Still, if you are seeing ~1200 scores, I think the issue is not the number of questions so much as when. If you are making mistakes in the first module, you will get the “easier” second module which will effectively cap how many points you can get.
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On math, I believe it was 3 wrong in first module and 3 wrong in second (harder) module = 600. Yikes! So it seems like you need fewer than 1-2 wrong for 750? But preferably in second module.
For a 750 on the PSAT? That is basically a perfect score (760). Or are you talking about the SAT? Regardless, if she got zero wrong on M1 and 6 wrong on M2, she would probably score well above a 600. In the paper SAT 6 wrong was ~750.
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This makes sense, but so little room for error! Older kid got 1400 psat with 18 wrong (paper not digital).
I was thinking both, but as you point out, PSAT has lower ceiling.
So, I have an update. As part of a presentation to parents at my son’s high school, one of the high school counselors mentioned that if 8th graders are above a certain math level in middle school, the county automatically has them take the PSAT instead of the PSAT 8/9.
This is shocking to me because when I signed my son up for the test, paid for it, etc all of the documentation said PSAT 8/9. None of the middle school staff seemed to understand this. They certainly didn’t tell us when we asked for more information.
So now I’m starting to think it’s possible he really did that well on the test. If so that is WILD. Sadly we were too lazy (busy?) to take a sample test, so I don’t have that additional data point.
I felt I should follow up on the same post. I really doubted the scores/CB as a result, and I don’t want to make other people feel that way if I don’t know for sure something funny happened. Apologies!
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