<p>Cut-off scores are done by state. No one knows if they’ll go up or down this year. If you took the test as a junior this year, you will find out next September what the semi cut-off is. You’ll find out this spring if you made at least commended. They keep the number of students making semi basically the same each year, so the percentage from year to year can change.</p>
<p>my score increased by 1 from soph to junior yr</p>
<p>speaking for friend (a sophomore)
CR: 79
M: 59 (i kno, she sucks at math)
WS: 73
Selection Index: 211
hopefully will score high enough to make semifinalist cutoff next yr…cutoff is only 214 so she likely will</p>
<p>and for me (soph)
CR: 59 (better than I thought)
M: 61 (dont kno why I made so many mistakes)
WS: 70
Selection Index: 190
hoping to make commended next year</p>
<p>64 Reading
65 Math
80 Writing</p>
<p>SO ****ed off at math, it was really easy and I easily coulda gotten an 800.</p>
<p>Whatever. I don’t need the money, and at least I got 98%.</p>
<p>If there is an asterisk (*) next to your composite score, you did not make semi-finalist. On the flip side, if there is no asterisk next to your composite score, you made semi-finalist. Correct me if I’m wrong. The asterisk might actually denote commended…</p>
<p>236! 80 CR, 80 M, 76 W (one stupid question away from perfect)</p>
<p>calprospective…you’re wrong</p>
<p>if you have an asterisk it means you’re not eliglibe to compete for national merit. If you don’t have an asterisk it means that your eligible but it doesn’t mean that you made seminifinalist or commended. You don’t find that out until next september</p>
<p>Oh, I see. </p>
<p>A sophomore and two juniors from my school got 240s… I envy them :</p>
<p>The asterik means you’re a sophomore (or freshman or whatever) and not eligible to be considered for National Merit. No asterik means you are eligible, but says nothing about whether you might have made it. It basically means you’re a junior.</p>
<p>i get my scores on thursday, my guidance counselor told me that my school was in the third grouping and thats why its taking so long, although the teachers are having a meeting abotu them too before we get them back… im hoping for a good score but massachusetts has such a high cutoff so i dont know</p>
<p>I guess I’m the anomaly but…I got 204 my sophomore year, and 232 this year, a jump of 28 points.</p>
<p>As far as what I did differently, this year I was just more familiar with the test (took about 8 practice PSATs), the math was all stuff that I’d already covered in class, and almost all of the English had also been covered in normal classes.</p>
<p>How did you guys actually get 80 for CR? That’s just insane. I thought the passage questions was disproportionally hard this year (although the sentence completions were pretty easy)…hopefully, the new SAT won’t be anything like that.</p>
<p>I got: 76 Reading, 80 Math, 80 Writing</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>JimmyEatWorld711… This is all new… where did you get the practice PSATs… Can you recommend a book, or a test booklet??</p>
<p>i get my score friday
eek</p>
<p>I am the scum of the Earth. :(</p>
<p>SI-233
CR-80
WR-80
Math-73</p>
<p>I missed two insanely easy math questions. One of the grid-ins where I put an odd answer for an answer that said in the porblem was EVEN! (#37) And I got #6 wrong about the stupid cyclinder…I don’t even know what I was thinking on that…it was so easy! Oh well…I got the highest score at my HS I think ever…so I’m still pretty happy with it…and I live in MS so I will easily be NMS but still…it bothers me how easy it would have been for me to get a 240 and I didn’t.</p>
<p>Oh My God. Please. Just Shut Up.</p>
<p>yeah, I just got mine back, 213 (stupid writing) … Hopefully Michigan doesn’t decide to shoot up this year.</p>
<p>DMartin: I regularly go to Borders on Saturday mornings, pull a test prep book from the shelf, and just take a practice test in their little caf</p>
<p>Since this is the bigger thread, I might as well pitch in here.</p>
<p>R 69
M 70
W 71</p>
<p>210 = 98th percentile.</p>