I found the PSAT to be really hard. I’m a big fan of the old SAT and the ACT (both of which I’ve taken). I finished everything but literally only finished the math no calc section when time was called. I always find writing to be pretty easy and the math sections weren’t too bad but I thought CR was very tough.
I know I’ve read it somewhere, but I can’t remember where? Could anyone remind me as to when the results come in?
I know that I won’t qualify for national merit, so I didn’t try as much as I should have on the PSAT today. On the first section though, I had twenty minutes left over and took a nap. The math section was really hard for me though.
It wasn’t horrible but it could have been better. The English was super easy because it was the exact same thing as the ACT.
Ironically, I feel like I did better on the math sections than the reading and writing sections. I felt most confident on the no calculator portion of the test, in fact I feel like I may have gotten a near perfect score on that portion. I did awful on the free response for the calculator portion, though, and I know I got one calculator problem wrong because the right answer popped up in my head right after I finished my test.
@iamnotironman I agree with everything you said. The CR was way harder than the one on the practice test. The no calc section was easy as mess, and so was the calc section, but it required a lot of time; that’s why I had to guess two questions 24 and 26. Writing was pretty much the same. @bhagn2017 Btw the answer to that cookies and water question was $0.75 because there were 21 cups (or gal id remember) and 25 cookies and for each cookie and cup tht’s 2 dollars. So 21 cups and 21 cookies = 42 dollars you have 4 cookies left and 3 dollars since they said 45 total dollars. 4x = 3 x = 3/4 = 0.75
I’ve been sick for three days (coughing, runny nose, sore throat), so taking the PSAT and having to get up every few minutes for a tissue was absolute torture.
Writing was easy, critical reading was okay, math was very difficult! I just could not figure out how to solve two math questions, and I think I guessed on three.
@YoohooAddict Don’t post anything related to questions. There are still people taking the exam as today is not over yet.
K sorry, I didn’t know that
I thought the test was relatively easy–easier than the practice test. I finished all the questions and I think I got all of them right but then again I always think that and I end up getting a bunch wrong. I probably made a bunch of stupid mistakes in the math and I probably got a few wrong in reading too.
@dsi411 Same. I don’t know why but the more confident I feel about a test, the worse I actually did on the test.
I also thought the PSAT was easier than the practice test. I found the writing section to be much easier than the old SAT, the CR about the same, and the Math slightly easier. No juniors at my school took it, except for a couple. The guidance counselor pushed all the minority kids to take it, which is good, but some didn’t care and just wasted their $15.
@greeneggsandsam9 We had to pay $35…everything at my school is so overpriced.
Anyone know how many groups of use-this-info-to-answer-multiple-questions there were for the no calculator sections or how many there were overall?
@piemannn I don’t think we’re allowed to tell you.
@Greninja wait but it’s not even the questions themselves? I’m just asking about the number of questions, not what the questions were. Isn’t it just like asking how many questions were in crit reading? (answer is 47 by the way)
Wow, my school funds the PSAT for everyone to take free and get their results free as well.
At my school it’s free for sophomores but 10 or 15 dollars (I don’t remember) for juniors. Every sophomore has to take it but juniors don’t have to.
So my question is, how will we even know if we “meet” the cutoffs for semifinalist? The score report is released mid-December and the asterick next to your score only indicates if you qualify (which is all juniors). Not to mention the percentile is nationwide so it doesn’t compare with how you did in your state…
At my school only juniors can take it (so I took it as a sophomore at a different school for $15) and juniors HAVE to take it but it’s free 
Who even understands how they’re scoring this crap anymore?? It’s out of 1520 and idek