<p>^
If I live in California, and I got…</p>
<p>-6 raw Math
- 4 raw writing
-2 raw CR</p>
<p>Did I qualify?</p>
<p>^Depends on this year’s cutoff score and curve; use the curve given in the practice PSAT (2008 Form W, the one given to you when you paid) and the fact that the class of 2011 CA cutoff was 219 to guesstimate.</p>
<p>-6 raw Math
- 4 raw writing</p>
<h2>-2 raw CR</h2>
<p>I’ll go ahead and do this for you, instead of doing my Calc BC hw.</p>
<p>Math Raw Score - 32
Writing Raw Score - 35
Critical Reading Raw Score - 46</p>
<p>In 2009, you would have received a 215, not high enough for California.
In 2008, you would have received a 214, not high enough for California.
In 2007, you would have received a 211, not high enough for California.
In 2006, you would have received a 215, not high enough for California.</p>
<p>And since score reports are not officially released, you may have missed a few more questions in addition to the ones you have missed. So at this point, your school, unfortunately, will only go down. Unless there is a freak curve, I do not think you will qualify. :</p>
<p>Anyone else find it strange how he says “If I live in California” and yet his Location above his Post Count is Massachusetts?</p>
<p>I do
10char</p>
<p>Designed to stay anonymous.</p>
<p>^^^
Alright, thanks.</p>
<p>I think the curve for this might overall be more generous than last year’s…</p>
<p>Man, I was an idiot and thought the square root of a square root was the same as a cube root. And I forgot that an integer had to be whole. And I forgot it was 1/2 base times height for a triangle.</p>
<p>Three easy questions…</p>
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<p>Curves really are pretty hard to guess at. Take last year’s writing section for Forms W and S:</p>
<p>Form W:
W
39-80
38-78
37-73
36-72
35-70
34-68</p>
<p>Form S:
W
39-80
38-75
37-70
36-69
35-68
34-66</p>
<p>Hmmm…is the Wednesday’s form W’s curve generally more generous than Saturday’s form S?</p>
<p>^Not always. It just depends on the raw scores and such.</p>
<p>^
Oh so then the Wednesday test is generally more harder, therefore the raw scores are lower, therefore the curves are generally more generous? It seems to me that it balances out…</p>
<p>^Not exactly. Some tests just so happen to have lower raw scores than others do.</p>
<p>^
Ahh, thanks for clarifying.</p>
<p>I’m confused. I thought that only 1/4th of a point was deducted for every wrong answer…so does -1 indicate 4 missed questions?</p>
<p>39-80
38-78
37-73
36-72
35-70
34-68</p>
<p>No. For a normal school test (no guessing penalty), you lose 1 point for each answer, right? Like if you miss three questions on a 50 question test, you lose 3 points and get a 47/50. If this happens on the SAT/PSAT, you still lose the one point and THEN you lose an addition 1/4 point, bringing you down by 1.25 total points. So, if you incorrectly answered 3 questions on a 50-question section (hypothetically), you’d lose 3 points for a wrong answer plus 3/4 points for the guessing penalty. You’d be at a 46.25/50, which rounds down to a 46/50.</p>
<p>I know I got the last one wrong. The permutation question. Totally blanked out, plus the last one on fill in the blank. I can’t wait for my PSAT scores.</p>
<p>Yeah, I kind of do and kinda don’t. I want to see my scores, but don’t want at the same time if I didn’t make the cutoff :(</p>