<p>@aznboi4981 don’t beat yourself up. that one number doesn’t prove your worth… there are so many other opportunities out there 
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<p>I have a funny feeling that cheat thing is off. I did not get this many questions wrong in each section. D: Has it been confirmed?</p>
<p>@aznboi4981 Which method did you use? The jacobbrunson or the multiple links one? And sadly they were both proven to be accurate several times</p>
<p>Multiple links…</p>
<p>I am too nervous to do the jacobbrunson one… I don’t want to risk anything… </p>
<p>76 R
73 M…
63 W???
212 in North Carolina… wow that’s disappointing. Everything increased from last year except writing. Dropped 20 points from the PSAT last year and 120 points from my real SAT. This is going to be really, really close.</p>
<p>Neither of your methods worked for me. Has the collegeboard pulled off the sites or what?</p>
<p>Maybe I got a 1620… Aghhh…</p>
<p>@palm12341 Neither of your methods worked for me. Has the collegeboard pulled off the sites or what?</p>
<p>@SippingCoffee</p>
<p>Read the Points to Note</p>
<p>“Percentiles are based on the critical
reading, mathematics, and writing
skills scores earned by college-bound
juniors or sophomores who took the
PSAT/NMSQT in the previous year.”</p>
<p>“Percentiles are based on the Selection Index
earned by college-bound juniors who took the
PSAT/NMSQT in the previous year.”</p>
<p>Since last year had extremely low percentiles, this year the cutoffs are all likely to jump. Basically every single state’s cutoff dropped last year. </p>
<p>@balrog29 Are you from NJ? Do you seriously think that the NJ cutoff is going to jump from its previous 224? I really don’t want it to considering it’s already so high…</p>
<p>I am from NJ too, and I butchered this PSAT. AGH. </p>
<p>@balrog29 ohh, PERCENTILES. I thought you meant the points–>score conversion chart.</p>
<p>@balrog29
You’re flawed. If you look at the 99th percentile of each PSAT Understanding scores file for different years and compare, you’ll see that the lower the base 99th percentile is, the lower the cutoff score is.</p>
<p>True, most states dropped, but not by much, and this came after a year of many record breaking jumps. With that in mind, many of last year’s cuts were still rather high overall. I don’t think it’s out of the question just yet to expect scores to remain the same. It’s really too early to make accurate predictions. The state reports in February, and the commended cut in April will help solidify the guessing. </p>
<p>Don’t forget @gkma98 that the “Understanding Your Scores” reports have only used “last year’s data” for the past three years. One has to be extremely careful when looking for trends because of this. In the reports from 2011 (class of 2013) and earlier, the data in the report matched that year’s cuts. Your current data, and the reports from 2012 and 2013, all mix two years together.</p>
<p>@psywar The official instructions from College Board can be found here: </p>
<p><a href=“Your SAT Score Report Explained – SAT Suite | College Board”>http://professionals.collegeboard.com/testing/sat-reasoning/scores/reports</a></p>
<p>Specifically:<br>
"One point is added for each multiple-choice question answered correctly.
For multiple-choice questions answered incorrectly, 1/4 point is subtracted:
No points are subtracted for incorrect answers to the mathematics questions requiring student-produced responses.
No points are subtracted for omitted questions.
Then, the total points answered wrong are subtracted from the number answered correctly. If the resulting score is a fraction, it is rounded to the nearest whole number—1/2 or more is rounded up; less than 1/2 is rounded down. "</p>
<p>@3boystogo so you first subtract the number of omitted from the total number of questions, then you find the number wrong for each, multiply it by .25, and then subtract that from the totals you subtracted the number of omitted from, and then you match up the values on the chart?</p>
<p>@gkma98 </p>
<p>How am I flawed? The understanding your score tells the percentiles for last year. It says last years 99th percentile was quite low, and the cutoffs showed as all of them dropped last year. What is flawed? We don’t know what the 99th percentile is this year, but it is unlikely to drop as last year had a low 99th percentile. </p>
<p>When will the state cutoffs be posted? Sorry if someone’s already asked this.</p>