<p>There were only 125 questions on the PSAT today. I thought people got 1 point for each correct answer, 0 for unanswered questions and -.25 for incorrect answers. How does that add up to over 200 (nmsf cut-off scores)?</p>
<p>You get points for knowing your name. If you don’t answer anything, you still get around a 60 (20/20/20).</p>
<p>I’m not sure about ^, but questions are categorized easy, medium, hard. Points are weighted accordingly. If you leave an answer blank, it doesn’t go either way. If you guess wrong, 1/4 is deducted.</p>
<p>^each question is weighted equally, doesn’t matter if its easy, medium, or hard</p>
<p>There is a scaled page like on the SAT or ACT, and its basically exponentially weighted. For example, in the math section: perfect=80 , 1 wrong=75 , 2 wrong=72 , 3 wrong= 70… Each section is weighted like this. Thats why its so hard to score highly on it and so few qualify for national merit. Just missing a question or two takes a huge hit on each section. By the way, the CR and Writing section aren’t scaled as harshly as the math section- it was just an example.</p>