PSAT to SAT

frost_44
Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:26:21 +0000

It all depends on how much you study and how much you gain from studying. Three of my friends and I all got the same score on the PSAT, a 190 exactly. But we all studied to different degrees, and two of my friends ended up dropping down to the 1700 range while my third friend stayed relatively the same. I was the only one who shot up a considerable amount; I got a 2030 with a horrible 7 essay. I probably also studied more than all three of them.

So you should just study as much as you can for now, and worry about what type of score you’ll get later, perhaps after you’ve taken some practice SATs or the real SAT because you really don’t know what you’ll get until you take one. On my first diagnostic after I took the PSAT, I dropped down to a 1590 I think simply because I wasn’t used to taking such a long test. So just study hard and try your best, and definitely take some practice SATs under the actual time constraints before you take the real one.