Wed PSAT vs Oct 1 SAT?

Schokolade
Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:36:19 +0000

Several people have commented that the math on the October PSAT was harder than the math on the October SAT, and I think my son would agree. However, this doesn’t mean that those who didn’t score well on the October SAT’s math section should worry about their PSAT math scores, as National Merit cutoffs are determined by percentiles (by state). If the PSAT math section was unusually hard, the score needed to be in the 99th percentile will be lower, as it was hard for everyone. The cutoffs by state for last year are only guidelines as to what the cutoff will be; as I understand it, the cutoff is recalculated every year.