Well obviously, many people do care about the PSAT. Obtaining the National Merit Scholarship means a lot to everybody here, I’m sure. It’s not a matter of freaking out that won’t change a thing, it’s a matter of holding discussions about questions that may have boggled us and therefore preventing the possibility of getting a similar question wrong in the future. And it’s fantastic that you became a National Merit without practice, that’s excellent. However, calling everybody here neurotic over-achievers is really low.
By the way, does anyone know when the newest editions of the Direct Hits books are supposed to be released?</p>
Not quite. The issue, the confusion, was mentioned in previous sentences. This particular sentence demonstrated exactly what that confusion was. The idea of confusion had already been professed.</p>
First of all, way to display your narcissism in a post that reeked of “tough guy” mentality. Secondly, there is also National Merit Commendation, which I’m sure many people are interested in receiving as well. Also, the PSAT has more relevance for prospective student-athletes because it allows them to send some early form of scores to colleges so that these colleges can know early-on whether a player will be worth pursuing or not.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure that people came here to get rid of some of their anxiety. If you’ve already gotten national merit, why are you posting in this thread.</p>
I don’t think a racist term like the one you just used is tolerated here, even if I’m not African-American. Also, I was referring to similar SAT questions which may appear.
Well, several people may be taking the actual SAT test in November or December, so these discussions can really help people out on the SAT. The PSAT, after all, is a form of practice for the SAT. Maybe we are overachievers. What’s wrong with that? I’d rather be an overachiever rather than an underachiever who can’t accomplish anything productive.</p>
Well that adds even more to the reason that people stress over this test. They want to receive more than just a commendation, they want to receive the actual money in scholarships, which requires a higher score.</p>
<p>My stress comes from my own standards of how well I should do. Honestly, I don’t think I’ll get National Merit, but I studied hard for the PSAT’s, and I want my score to reflect that. I didn’t torture myself with Kaplan math just to bomb the test when I finally take it. Since it’s also a practice for the SAT, I wanted to do well so I’d feel more confident when I take the real SAT in May or June, since confidence CAN make a difference (for me anyway). So those are the reasons for stressing a bit from someone who doesn’t expect National Merit :)</p>
<p>@plannerboi - I think there’s still disagreement over that one, but I got the longer, wordier answer (I can’t remember what it said exactly). I’m sure there’s someone else here who can actually remember the choices.</p>
You can’t conclude that, there may be several colleges to which this may actually seem like a huge accomplishment. Granted, you can make a tentative assumption of what colleges deem a huge accomplishment or not based on their perceptions of prior years.</p>
From CollegeBoard:
The Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) is a program cosponsored by the College Board and National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC). It’s a standardized test that provides firsthand practice for the SAT®. It also gives you a chance to enter NMSC scholarship programs and gain access to college and career planning tools.</p>
<p>For the math question where the product R*T was a positive number and one of the variables was a negative, did the question say that R was negative or -R was negative? I can’t remember.</p>