<p>230 here, so fortunately I won’t have to worry about making it (especially because I live in a state with a cutoff that usually hovers around 214, which is generally midrange compared to other states). Advice to sophomores taking the real thing next year: prepare adequately, because practicing and studying help significantly. I improved by 23 pts from sophomore to junior year after preparing for roughly 16-18 hours (total) in the weeks leading up to the test.</p>
<p>Finally got my scores back!
80 math
73 verbal
80 writing
=233</p>
<p>I had a 216 last year so I’m ecstatic!
I could improve that verbal though…o_O</p>
<p>I got a 202, which is 96th percentile…does this qualify for commended?</p>
<p>202 will almost definitely be commended…</p>
<p><a href=“mailto:lol@Rachel”>lol@Rachel</a>… The thing is if you lived in Mississippi, you’d have such a crappy education you’d have more like a 140! Trust me, everyone who makes NMSF in Miss. is either born very smart, or moves here from some where else. Or goes to my school, which has a great, year-long prep class and summer workshop devoted solely to the PSAT.</p>
<p>231, 99th percentile. Up from a 199 sophmore year. I got the highest in my class by quite a big margin, but coming here puts my ego in check.</p>
<p>80 Math
51 Critical Reading
57 Writing Skills</p>
<p>Doesn’t it appear that I’m rather lopsided in the left part of my brain? I enjoyed the days of the 1600 SAT, in which my math score could count for half of the test instead of a third. Too bad they’ll never adminstrate another one again :(.</p>
<p>I spent the summer cramming a vocab book but it didn’t save me when I ran out of time. I got done with 41 questions on the Critical Reading, with 32 correct and then I had to fill in random bubbles for the last remaining questions due to time constraints. </p>
<p>For math I finished each section in under 4 minutes. I hate my school because everyone scores well.</p>
<p>You people are all insanely talented. Could one of you be kind enough to post questions 42 and 43 from the second CR passage? Please.</p>
<p>I thought you were a junior appliedmath…</p>
<p>The best strategy is to READ. Over the summer, I read about an hour a day… this year I got a 750 verbal (620 in sophomore year)</p>
<p>our school was really desperate to get some more finalists and semi-finalists…they had us all in a PSAT Prep course through the summer and two weeks into the school year. I have to say it helped though, my score went up fifteen points from Sophomore year. Our teacher said the course helped people raise their scores an average of 20 points, which is big if you’re starting at a 200. The 7:30 am class was a you-know-what in the summer though -_-;;</p>
<p>Anyone know what the National Hispanic should be around in Texas?</p>
<p>Nice job cal, yes I’m a sophmore, not a junior. So what exactly did you read? By the way I looked back in the book I got back, and I missed most of the easy critical reading but aced the hard ones. I went to bed at 3 AM the night before reading this forum, so that might have something to do with it.</p>
<p>i’m wondeinrg if my score got lost inthe mail. it hasn’t come in yet and last year it came the last week of school. School is out, and I still have my score . maybe someone accidentally threw it away</p>
<p>PSATs are sent to your school… they shouldn’t be mailed to your house unless the school actually goes to the trouble of individually mailing all of them</p>
<p>one junior in my school gotta 238 on his psat…a nerd, always with a gameboy with him…</p>
<p>but he definitely going to make the finalist.</p>
<p>well, JZL1129, you probably wish that you had the 238</p>
<p>I am a senior now, I don’t care about the test anymore, I am finally done with the collegeboard stuff, yeah!!!NO MORE TEST, but I have to admit that I did pretty poorly on my PSAT, I don’t remember the writing, I gotta 129 combined for math and verbal…</p>
<p>what will a 210 do for me in TX?..im guessing i have no shot at semi?</p>
<p>deadhead - probably not enough for semifinalist. Last year’s cutoff was around 216-218 for Texas.</p>
<p>vtran - some schools wait until January to give out the scores. My daughter’s school will give them out in early January. They say that it takes that long to sort them out because they have a huge amount of tests to sort (it is a VERY large school).</p>
<p>I have been anxiously waiting for my PSAT scores for the past two weeks, and they have finally arrived! I got a 231 (NY). Yea! I am so happy.</p>