PSAT Practice Test!

[MinervaMoon]

<p>Well . . . I always did. I don’t know about most.</p>

[Differentiable]

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Differentiable and lavendercloud: I noticed that you guys scored really well on critical reading. This is my crappiest subject. Do you have any tips or books that would help? Do you guys read the passage? Do you try to anticipate the answer? I missed 8 total on CR (2 sent comp, 6 passage) while on writing I missed 0 and math 1. The math one was due to I went brain dead and convinced myself that 4-2= -2! I was pretty mad lol!

For sentence completion problems, you just need to have a sufficient vocabulary. Elimination is very useful, especially if you don’t know the meanings of some of the words. </p>

<p>For passage-based questions, I find that the most effective technique is to care about the passage. This may be only a personal solution, but I seriously have trouble reading (with a sufficient level of comprehension) if I do not try to be drawn in by what the author is saying. </p>

<p>I definitely suggest that you read the whole passage. It’s very difficult to understand how the author (or a character) feels if you don’t read the whole thing.</p>

<p>I would appreciate it if you would provide any tips that you have for improving writing scores. I got 6 writing questions wrong on the actual test as a Sophomore and 3 wrong on this year’s practice test.</p>

[jai6638]

<p>I took practice test #6 from the collegeboard SAT book and got a total raw score of 101 ( CR - 37, Math - 34 , Writing - 30. i didnt cuont the writing score coz im confused how to calculate that… ) </p>

<p>Essentially my ranges are as follows:</p>

<p>CR- 510-570
math - 530-610
writing - 500-630 ( assuming that I get a 3 on my essay out of 6 which is what the book’s scale is ) </p>

<p>Not a great score I guess eh? any ideas?</p>

[chillaxin]

<p>Does anyone know how the Barron’s PSAT practice book compares to the actual PSAT? I’ve been taking Barron’s and been doing relatively well on them, and I haven’t found them especially hard, but as I remember, Barron’s are supposed to be harder than the real thing. Is their PSAT book just unusually easier or is the PSAT just unusuallly easy?</p>

[PrincetonFather]

<p>Lavendercloud, I’m from Minnesota too. The cutoff was 215 for last year’s kids.</p>

<p>Chillax the Barron’s is harder.
I just took this practice full length PSAT thing and got a 224, 80 M 66 V 78 W. The critical reading in the second section had some weird answers.</p>

[jai6638]

<p>I had a question… What is the approximate max number of answers that you should miss in each section? </p>

<p>Is it better to leave a question blakn if you are not sure or to try your luck and guess?</p>

<p>thanks much…</p>