PSAT score question?

[Anonymous]

My daughter hasn't shown me the information that came with her PSAT score but she told us she got 680 English/ 580 Math. She is in 11th grade and hasn't done any prep yet at all. Just curious how she did compared to her peers? We are planning on her taking a prep course starting in January and taking the March SAT. Is that a decent score?

[Anonymous]

Did MCPS release the scores? Where are the kids finding them?

[Anonymous]

Not sure about how it compares, but another resource for prep is using Kahn Academy through her College Board account. It should feed work focusing on the areas she needs to improve upon.

[Anonymous]

Sign into her College Board account and look at the score details. That's where you'll see percentile info and the index conversion, which establishes the Commended and NMSF cutoffs.

The first batch of scores was released yesterday, for the ones who took it on the original testing day.

[Anonymous]

She is at the stage of her life when she is super independent and she went straight from sports to homework and I just didn't want to push her last night. I was just curious. I'll make her sign on when she gets home from school but I was just wondering if it was reasonably good, without any prep at all.

[Anonymous]

You know that is good, OP, right? I dunno, I get a little frustrated with the wide-eyed “is this clearly wonderful grade any good?” posts. Google will tell you the percentile, and you can see it’s better than the vast majority of 11th graders do, prep or no prep.

Maybe I’m just feeling a little salty because my 11th grader came home with his sub 1000 score with a shrug saying “it’s fine, others did worse.” And he’s right - it will be fine. But if your kid did well and you know it, be happy. Don’t second guessing to see if anyone did better. Someone did, yes. But lots of someone’s also did a heck of a lot worse. Which, given the way percentiles go, you already knew.

[Anonymous]

Your DD made it into the top 10% so seems very solid without prep. Just depends what your goals are. Not high enough for NMSF, not sure about Commended. You'll need to look at her index score for that to get a better sense. Cutoffs won't be available until September of senior year, but they usually don't vary more than a point or two. Here is the PSAT to SAT conversion chart: https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/psat-to-sat-score-conversion-predict-your-sat-score/

[Anonymous]

Thank you. I poked around a little on the Internet and saw 1210 and up was very good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your DD made it into the top 10% so seems very solid without prep. Just depends what your goals are. Not high enough for NMSF, not sure about Commended. You'll need to look at her index score for that to get a better sense. Cutoffs won't be available until September of senior year, but they usually don't vary more than a point or two. Here is the PSAT to SAT conversion chart: https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/psat-to-sat-score-conversion-predict-your-sat-score/

Thank you for sharing this conversion chart.

[Anonymous]

She did fine, esp with no prep. Remember it’s practice for the SAT. If she uses the tools available to ID her areas of improvement and concentrates on those during SAT prep, she has a good shot at improving her outcome on the SAT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She did fine, esp with no prep. Remember it’s practice for the SAT. If she uses the tools available to ID her areas of improvement and concentrates on those during SAT prep, she has a good shot at improving her outcome on the SAT.

This - My kid scored 1330 - not enough for MD commended but great for seeing what the one weak area he has so he can do hopefully do better on SAT.

[Anonymous]

That's average for a non-WJ W school.

[Anonymous]

My daughter got 1220 and I am not sure if its a good score as compared to other kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That's average for a non-WJ W school.

It was a brand new test this year so how does anyone know what people got at Whitman, or BCC, or Einstein, or Wheaton????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter got 1220 and I am not sure if its a good score as compared to other kids.

Maybe define good and what that means to you. Likely to get a score she’ll want to submit to Yale? Above average for her school? Above average for the nation? Does good “compared to other kids” mean compared only to other kids who are like her, or to kids in general?