Good luck to the kiddos taking the PSAT this week! My D takes it on Saturday. Does anyone know when scores will be released? I think last year they were available online on January 7, but I can’t find information for this year’s test.
OK, nevermind, I found it: scores will be available online for the schools December 5, for students on the 12th. (Why not the same day? I don’t get that but whatever.)
What I’ve heard is they want the GC’s to see the scores first so they can be prepared to discuss them with the students. Seriously doubt our GCs will look at them until they are asked to write a rec letter.
My DS doesn’t take the PSAT until Wednesday the 19th. He’s signed up for a practice SAT on Sunday morning followed by a quick reading/writing review session (his weakest area). I’ll be so glad with this is over. The Oct 1st SAT score come out on 10/27 and I hope that will be a sign of he did on the PSAT.
Does anyone know when the Oct 19 PSAT scores are released? Based on previous posters dates I am guessing mid December?
See my post 2 above yours, @magnetnh.
@suzy100 Ok thanks I thought since your PSAT date was on a Saturday it would be different result date for those taking it on Wednesday Oct 19.
Best of luck to all on the PSAT!
D18’s school isn’t taking PSAT until Nov.
Same with us, @labegg. Fall break starts the 19th, so they have the Nov 1 PSAT date.
Oh sorry, @magnetnh, I missed that nuance in your question. I think they all come out on the same date, even the November ones.
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DS just walk through the door. Said PSAT was harder than the SAT he took on 10/1. Said math was easy and the reading/writing not so much. Glad it’s over. It will be what it will be.
He took the PSAT today?
Yes. Many schools do. Though I’m pretty sure most are the 19th. At his school they have always taken it on a Sat
I wish him best luck ^^^^^^^^!
Funny, @cardinal2020mom, my D took it this morning also and said the reading/writing was fine, the math a little tricky. Go figure! (And math is usually her strong point.)
Our son is taking it 10/19. When he took it last year he did really well on the verbal, but not as well on the math due to not finishing. He felt like he didn’t do well despite being in the top 10%. That’s what happens when S16 brother is NMSF. Looking ahead, I’m wondering whether to advise him to take the ACT. I did better on it 35 years ago, but I was a very fast test taker. Like my wife, he’s slower and more methodical.
@mstomper I know how you feel, my D16 is NMF and S18 is VERY competitive, I’m not sure what he’ll do if he doesn’t score well enough to make the cut. S18 takes the PSAT on the 19th too.
I’ve told him no EC’s on Tuesday evening and it will be an early to bed night. We will be having salmon for dinner on Tuesday. When the kids were little I always told them that salmon was ‘brain food’ and would make them smart so we always have salmon the night before a really important test;-)
@3scoutsmom, barring a fluky performance S18 isn’t going to be NMSF; his brother is a very good test taker. Fortunately, S18 isn’t quite as big a slacker as his brother.
@suzy100 interesting. I normally think my son is better at reading than math. All he said was that he had no definitive answer on more of the reading questions; where in the math, he felt confident about his answers.
@VANURSEPRAC thank you. Same to you DC.
@mstomper, mine came home feeling like the Nat’l merit is out of his hands. Not heartbroken but can’t understand how the SAT could be the easier of the 2 tests. Not worth spending anymore time discussing it with him. It is done. He knows to move on and put his focus back to creating that “well-rounded with a spike” student the colleges so desire.
It does make it easier on all of us when he still doesn’t have a list of schools he “has to” get into.