<p>I hope SO MUCH that jmarsh is lying. Besides writing, those curves are absolutely unforgiving as hell. -6 raw on verbal a 67??? HOW??? What that like 80,78,75,73,71,69,67? ■■■? this is absolutely HORRIFIC.</p>
<p>Lol, I’m not lying i swear, and i took the test on wednesday… Do you think that because of the harsh curve they’ll lower the score it takes to be a national merit semifinalist, i really really hope so</p>
<p>jmarsh, have you been getting mail?</p>
<p>I took the Saturday PSAT. How do you think the curve will differ from Wed. to Sat.? I hope the Saturday curve is more forgiving.</p>
<p>last year i got a 66 verbal and i got 9 questions WRONG</p>
<p>Good, this doesn’t apply to the Saturday test. The Saturday test will be much more generous. The math may have been easy on Saturday’s PSAT, but it won’t have a 80,76,73,71,69 curve. There were too many places for stupid mistakes. I think it will be 80,77,74,72,70. Definately more reasonable. Actually, I’m just spewing random numbers based on the College Board pamphlet. The curve on the Saturday Critical Reading will be more generous, trust me.</p>
<p>wait, so because I took the test on wednesday I have a worse chance at getting a high score? if so, that’s wicked unfair, can some one explain that please…</p>
<p>The Saturday test was almost certainly harder so it evens out. Did the Wedsenday test have a lot of hard sentence completions? However, I’m pretty sure that 41= 67 on that test and not 42 = 67. Could be wrong, though.</p>
<p>the sentence completions weren’t that bad, I left the last ones blank in each section and got the rest right</p>
<p>Thank GOd jmarsh2006 took the Wednesday PSAT</p>
<p>what were like the 2 hardest questions from each section (in your opinon)?
and what were the answers?</p>
<p>There’s NO WAY the curve was that harsh. And if it is I dont want to even begin to think about the rapage that i took.</p>
<p>yea. this is definitely not good news</p>
<p>oh crap this stinks. and i need to turn in these psat scores to apply for the collegenow class i want to take… since i didnt take a sat yet. i hope i did good!!! shudder… lol</p>
<p>the top 1 percent got natinoal merit. so your actual score really doesn’t matter. since it was a new format, there will probly be a different cuttoff index. so don’t sweat nothing til u know u got the award or not</p>
<p>Well scores are adjusted to reflect percentiles, so generally, a 70 from one year will be the same percentile in another. This means that there is very little if any variance in NMS cuttoff scores from year to year.</p>
<p>well the test is ENTIRELY different this year (excpet for writing). so I don’t see how you can make that comparison</p>
<p>what was jmarsh’s percentile and what state does she/he live in?</p>
<p>well the test is ENTIRELY different this year (excpet for writing). so I don’t see how you can make that comparison</p>
<p>The raw scores are always adjusted to mirror the percentiles when converted to the scaled score to a rather high degree. If 99% of the people missed at least 2 questions, then the scale will be converted so that 2 questions can be missed to maintain a 80. In the same way, if there is a specifically “easy” test (one in which the average raw score is higher) then scores will be scaled with a much harsher curve. It’s called equating. A scaled score will be equivalent to a different administration of the same test.</p>
<p>OKay, I was in the 99th percentile with my score of a 217, my verbal (67) was the 97th percentile, math (73) was 98th percentile, and writing (77) was 99th percentile, if that means anything…</p>