National Merit told me that to find the SI from an Old SAT you first convert the Old SAT to the new SAT using the College Board conversion tables (or app), then calculate SI from there.
Anyone care to register a guess what the highest possible SI could be?
Not sure if I understand your question, but thereās no need to āguessā the max SI. For the SAT, itās 240.
@nutmeg_shippy I thought I read theyāve told people it wont go higher than 209ā¦ so 209?
@blueblazer Thanks for confirming. I just noted that the NM did use the word āconvertedā in the instructions which aligns with what they told you.
@flatkansas Two different things here. The SI for confirming NM is not expected to be higher than 209. The highest possible SI that a student can get is 240. Iām not sure which of these nutmeg_shippy is asking about.
Whatās the best way to prepare for the new PSAT? I took it for fun without practice in 9th grade and I got 1270 total(96th percentile), with 610 reading/math (92nd percentile), and 660 math(97th percentile). Iām confident that if I take it for practice in 10 grade my score will improve just because I have a better feel for the test. Is it a reasonable goal to try for National Merit Scholar by 11th? Any steps, methods, or tips in doing so would be appreciated.
Whatās the best way to prepare for the new PSAT? I took it for fun without practice in 9th grade and I got 1270 total(96th percentile), with 610 reading/math (92nd percentile), and 660 math(97th percentile). Iām confident that if I take it for practice in 10 grade my score will improve just because I have a better feel for the test. Is it a reasonable goal to try for National Merit Scholar by 11th? Any steps, methods, or tips in doing so would be appreciated.
Whatās the best way to prepare for the new PSAT? I took it for fun without practice in 9th grade and I got 1270 total(96th percentile), with 610 reading/math (92nd percentile), and 660 math(97th percentile). Iām confident that if I take it for practice in 10 grade my score will improve just because I have a better feel for the test. Is it a reasonable goal to try for National Merit Scholar by 11th? Any steps, methods, or tips in doing so would be appreciated.
Whatās the best way to prepare for the new PSAT? I took it for fun without practice in 9th grade and I got 1270 total(96th percentile), with 610 reading/math (92nd percentile), and 660 math(97th percentile). Iām confident that if I take it for practice in 10 grade my score will improve just because I have a better feel for the test. Is it a reasonable goal to try for National Merit Scholar by 11th? Any steps, methods, or tips in doing so would be appreciated.
@BlueBlazer at #6700
āNational Merit told me that to find the SI from an Old SAT you first convert the Old SAT to the new SAT using the College Board conversion tables (or app), then calculate SI from there.ā
OK then. That solves the question of what to do with the old SAT.
@thshadow @flatKansas @paveyourpath
I believe at some point on this thread someone determined what a āsafeā SI for the PSAT would be. I.E., if you had a 225+ SI you would certainly be SF. I wasnāt sure how that number was determined, but my question is if anyone has an idea as to what a āsafeā SAT score or SAT SI would be.
A 1450 should guarantee a minimum of 209 SI (210, actually, and maximum of 225 SI). 650 EBRW + 800 M yields 210. 800 EBRW + 650 M yields 225. Even 650 V and 790 M will work, but 1440 isnāt always safe. For example, 640 V and 800 M isnāt enough. Many combinations considerably lower than 1450 will also qualify (e.g., 700 V and 690 M ), but if 209 really does turn out to be the qualifying score, 1450 is always safe whereas 1440 isnāt always.
Just to extend the analysis, and assuming 209 is the minimum required SI, 1280 can never qualify, whereas one combination of 1290 (800V, 490 M) can. So 1280 is definitely unsafe and 1450 is definitely safe on new SAT if 209 is criterion SI to meet or exceed. Scores greater than 1280 and less than 1450 may or may not make the cut.
It will be crazy to have a 1440 and have an SI that does not confirm but a 1290 does. I agree with the analysis above and the numbers are what they are but that would just be so crazy I could hear the moan of frustration in some house somewhere already. What is NM going to do, wait until the Nov test date and then pull all of the SAT scores, create an SI cut off based on those scores and then filter to the first 15K kids?
Iām sending S17ā's old SAT scores to NM today.
I donāt think they do it that way. That would encourage retakes and all kinds of last-minute jockeying. In theory all 16,000 kids could have qualifying SAT scores. Narrowing the pool to 15k would then have to be on some other basis. Essays, grades and recommendations have to count for something, as does merely completing the paperwork.
^^ I was just being snarky. I donāt think they do it that way either; itās just after all of the changes done to the class of 2017, I canāt believe there is yet another change. Add in this wrinkle of SI for confirming scores, itās just a bit much.
Sorry to have misunderstood. You are so right. The changes and wrinkles have been unbelievable.
@MatzoBall Thanks for actually crunching some numbers! Strangely enough, I think 1450 might be what S actually got on his SAT, so I feel comforted.
I got an SI of 216 in Texas- do I stand a chance? Iām so nervous!
While 216 is a great score that should pave the way forward to scoring very well on the SAT, if it has not already, it falls short of 219 cutoff in Texas.