How do they grade the PSAT?

<p>i believe there are 48 CR questions (13 sentence completion), 38 M, 39 W…</p>

<p>So if each section is out of 80, and i get 12 right and 1 wrong on the sentence completion, for example, I would get an 11.75/13 or something, which would be converted to about 19.6/80 alone?</p>

<p>And does that mean that the 35 reading questions is more important than the 13 sentence completion questions?</p>

<p>No, that’s not how it’s done. Your raw score (item content score, by the scoring rules that include partial points off for wrong answers on most kinds of questions) are compared to the raw scores of other test-takers on the same form of the test to give you a “standard score” (the 20 to 80 score for each section of the PSAT). The standard score doesn’t come from easy arithmetic based on your number of correct answers but rather from a statistical comparison of your score to the scores of thousands of other test-takers.</p>