<p>This Wednesday I will be taking the PSAT/NMSQT. In June I took the real SAT and got 2100, which I was pretty happy with - I would just like to improve my math score. When I took the SAT, I hadn’t studied at all (I made a very last-minute decision to take it in June). I only answered questions I felt confident about, and if I wasn’t able to make a somewhat-sure, educated guess or narrow down a question to 2 choices, I skipped it. </p>
<p>I thought this was a good strategy but it seems everyone recommends that every question be answered, so I took a practice test in my Princeton review book for the SAT, answered everything (except a few grid-ins) even if I had to completely guess, and got a 1950. My math score was especially disappointing. So, for the PSAT, what should I do? Answer all of them and hope for the best, or follow my SAT strategy and hope that my 2100 wasn’t just a result of luck or a fluke? I’d really like to get the qualifying score - this year it was a 211. Based on my SAT score I felt confident that I could do this, but based on the practice test in my review book, now I’m really not sure…</p>