@miottawa We still don’t have scores either. My kid only has one email address, which was put in the answer sheet. This email address received the notification on 12/17 about checking the PSAT scores, and all other CB messages since 2013 when started taking the CB exams. Yet no 2015 scores in the account, nor has the access code email arrived. I checked with several parents whose kids also took the 2015 PSAT exam, and learned that none of the 5 I asked received an email with the access code. I am going to wait until noon today. After that I don’t know what to do other than waiting for the paper score (GC claimed that she didn’t have the code either). It has been a good learning experience for my child though - when you have to rely on someone else to do something, anything can happen. That’s life, unfortunately.
@Bearsgarden , GC should have a spreadsheet with all kids access codes as well as the raw scores for all kids. DD was able to get the raw scores from her GC before her score showed up on CB.
@SincererLove, thanks. DD asked the GC and got brushed aside quickly. Will ask her to go back and check again.
@3boystogo the new scale is up to 228. Your daughter’s 222 is guaranteed to be NMSF. Congrats!
Can some of you guys do this:
Go online and when you get to the scores for the 3 sections, look to the right of the words ‘test scores’ which is right above the box with the 3 scores. to the right of ‘test scores’ it will say ‘show details’. you have to select this to expand and see the percentiles for the 3 scores. You can only see this online.
The top of the page gives your total score (like 1410, for example) and its percentile, but below that is the percentile for each SUBJECT if you click the show details button. I’m thinking that anyone with a 99 percentile in each subject must have a 99+ for their total index.
DS has 99% in each category, 700V, 760M, 1460.
@SammieB What is DS percentile for EACH subject? Look under “next steps”, the next title is test scores; go to the right; click view details. There should be a percentile for each SUBJECT.
my DS’s % for each subject is 99%
@micgeaux I found what you are talking about. If everyone could post the %ile of the SI, by clicking on ‘show details’ at the top right, our information would be clearer. I did not see this feature until you mentioned it.
R-36-99% 99%
W-38-99% 99%
M-37-99% 99%
My daughter has a 35 in R and that is 98th. My son has a 34 in W and that is 98th. If we could see the “breaks” for each subject, than you would have some indication of how well you did. For example, my daughter’s 35 in reading is at the top of the 98th percentile because you have a 36 and that is still in the 99th percentile.
@micgeaux Looking at @SammieB scores and cringing about my D’s. A matter of 1.5 points dropped her significantly in CR and M percentiles.
Score Natl User
CR 35 98 97
W 37 99 99
M 36.5 99 98
Sorry. My daughter’s 35 in reading is not a valid reference point because she is a freshman. So strike hers and use @aron’s 35, which is 97 percentile.
I believe I read someone post about qualifying NMF 's scores or index scores. You were confused or nervous.
But simple rules and common senses (with assumption that you all got your score resulst) : if your kids or yourself
got ranked 99th in both National Sample Rep Percentile and Your PSAT User Percentile (listed at the leftmost of Score Report), then 70% to 80% you would qualify for NMSF then NMF. Many posters or bloggers may crunch their numbers thru different math models, but you all know: that’s only estimate, maybe one better than another - but still estimate (other words : do not consider them seriously, since nobody know for sure). If you’re from states (with lower SI from previous test years), then allow yourselves get ranked 98th Percentile will get you to NMSF then NMF
OK… everyone is looking at national percentiles for scores to try and estimate percentiles for SI. if you are in 99 percentile for SI then that means I believe you are in top 15,000 ( of approximately 1.5M juniors who took test) and will definitely be at least commended, but have a great shot at least for NMSF. But it still depends on state.
An insight no one else on CC seems to know yet, or has mentioned. Our GC asked me to send official score report and share that info with her, because schools will not get this until Jan. 29 and she wanted to see what they looked like in case students started asking questions. She only has a spreadsheet. But then she called me in her office Thursday afternoon to share what CB sends counselors. She showed me a column that was “new” this year from previous years. It actually lists the PERCENTILE OF EACH STUDENTS SI NATIONALLY. she said that was a big indicator of NMSF potential. Obviously the 50,000 group will fall into the 98th percentile, but students in the NMSF SI 99 percentile have a great shot (not guarantee) at NMSF. on that chart, with her students, the lowest SI that was still in 99 percent was 207. SO that is great news for 207 and above. But she had no other students make any score higher than 190’s after that so I don’t know where 99 percent cutoff for SI stops. Eventually if people in lower 200’s could ask GC for their % for SI, we could find out where it changes from 99%to 98%.
@aron Your daughter did great. I don’t know what state you are in, but I think she still has a great chance. If you look at old “understanding your PSAT” scoring sheets and estimate a score for each subject based on her percentiles, her score would be estimated to be pretty high on the old test.
@gasenioryear, this is useful to know. It would be wonderful if college board could put some transparency into this and just include the national percentile as a decimal number on the student score reports, since in many of the higher cutoff states, 99 percentile is not nearly high enough.
@gasenioryear Wow. Great information!
@micgeaux Thanks–that would be great, but unfortunately, we are in Maryland. Last year’s cutoff was 222. Oddly, this is the only test we can recall that she’s scored beneath the 99th. SAT Bio Subject Test as a sophomore was 800 and her PARCC score for language arts was also perfect. She just went too quickly, I’m afraid.
@mathyone You are current. When my oldest D qualified, I think we calculated that it was less than the top half of the 99th percentile do students in our state.
@gasenioryear Isn’t " PERCENTILE OF EACH STUDENTS SI NATIONALLY" the same as “User Percentile- National”?
PSAT/NMSQT User Percentile - National
Your percentile indicates the percentage of a typical group of 11th grade College Board U.S. test takers who would have had scores at or below your score.
The SAT site has the file structure loads for that data they push to High Schools. I’m going to check that and see how its laid out.
@gasenioryear Thank you for shedding light on this matter!