PSAT COMMENDATION/RECOGNITION cutoff for 2015 test???

YoohooAddict
Wed, 28 Oct 2015 00:19:41 +0000

@Alex99 Lol yea I feel you. I live here in Maryland and am hoping to get commended. Here in Maryland, the cutoff is I believe 1 point or 2 points less than the cutoff in New Jersey, so it’s still hard. I think to get commended you have to get a selection index of about 190/228, and the selection index is calculated in this way:
take Math score and divide it by 20 and take the verbal score and divide it by 10 and then add the two results and multiply the sum by 2 to get your selection index.
So here’s an example: You get say 700 M 600 V
Selection index: 700/20 = 35 600/10 = 60 2(60 + 35) = 2(95) = 190/228 which I believe should be good enough.