2022 PSAT Scores

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Anonymous wrote:How much can one realistically expect an 1160 to rise with the SAT?

My son went from an 1190 to a 1440 senior year.

What test prep?

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My 10th grader just got his score—1320. Still in Algebra II so hoping for a nice increase next year.

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Anonymous wrote:Is there any value to being a semifinalist for NMSQT (i.e. meeting the benchmark) -- other than having something nice to put on your college applications?

Realistically, my kid could meet the benchmark with just a little prep. But, he isn't going to win any scholarship competition b/c he doesn't have a "resume" of fabulous things he's done.

So, other than bragging rights on college apps, is there any value to being a NMSQT semifinalist?

Yes, if you follow 'the path'. A typical semifinalist almost always is a finalist that qualifies them for merit aid at a small subset of schools. A few years ago, University of Florida used to offer a full ride, probably the highest ranked school to do so. Don't think they do that any longer. USC (california) and NorthEastern are two other highly rated schools that offer strong, partial aid. USC offers a 50% scholarship and NEU offers enough money to make the tuition comparable to what you'd pay for UVA instate. Some schools like UCF and UTD offer full rides and automatic admit into their sought after honors programs (the schools themselves don't rank high).

Thing is, most finalist kids have strong GPAs and are likely to get into highly ranked schools. If you plan to ignore those admissions and go where cost is lowest, then by all means focus on the PSAT. If not, it's no more than something to brag about on your college app.

Most UMC kids are not doing it to get the scholarship. You have to be a very strong candidate to do so well. Also, you have to also show the same kind of performance in the SAT also for you to become a finalist. My kid is a scholar now. His school gave him 1K for 4 years (so 4K total). The recognition is a flex, not the money. For the top students, NMS is a low hanging fruit. They already have the grades, the ECs, the essays, the recommendation, the SAT scores etc. It is not a hard process for the prepared kid.

Yes, there are many decent schools that will give full rides too.

My kid got lucky.
USC was 1st choice and got 50% tuition scholarship, and 2 years in honors dorm which is very nice.

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Anonymous wrote:Is there any value to being a semifinalist for NMSQT (i.e. meeting the benchmark) -- other than having something nice to put on your college applications?

Realistically, my kid could meet the benchmark with just a little prep. But, he isn't going to win any scholarship competition b/c he doesn't have a "resume" of fabulous things he's done.

So, other than bragging rights on college apps, is there any value to being a NMSQT semifinalist?

It is for kids willing to take a full ride at one of the schools recruiting National Merit kids. You’d have to google (they call them buyer schools). Mine will end up getting paid to go to college if he makes NMF (currently NMSF now). He was fine with his various college choices for full rides. Some kids wouldn’t be though. So it just depends on the kid or the financial situation.

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Did all of FCPS and/or Virginia come out? We don't see any yet.

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Anonymous wrote:Did all of FCPS and/or Virginia come out? We don't see any yet.

Should be out today on College Board. If you can't see it under PSAT you can get the score if you click on "My SAT".

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Anonymous wrote:How much can one realistically expect an 1160 to rise with the SAT?

My DD scored around 1050 as a sophomore, junior year PSAT was in the 1100s. She has test anxiety, so took the SAT a few times and ended up with a 1390. So it can go up quite a bit!

That's great! Very encouraging. My DS is in the same boat so hoping when he takes his SAT in March he has similar end result.

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Anonymous wrote:My 10th grader just got his score—1320. Still in Algebra II so hoping for a nice increase next year.

So my DS is a junior. In Algebra 2 now- Took Algebra 1 Freshman, Geometry sophomore year so still hasn't;t seen "all" the math on the test. Really hoping by June he can significantly increase him math because it isn't pretty.

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Anonymous wrote:Did all of FCPS and/or Virginia come out? We don't see any yet.

Should be out today on College Board. If you can't see it under PSAT you can get the score if you click on "My SAT".

Still not out for my LCPS kid. We tried all the ways, College Board, Naviance, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How much can one realistically expect an 1160 to rise with the SAT?

My son went from an 1190 to a 1440 senior year.

What test prep?

Mine was similar. 1100 psat 10th, 1430 psat 11th, 1430 sat 11th.

They were on khan academy doing tests over the summer and I bought them the huge books. They want to retake the sat in the spring to see if they can get math higher (was better on 11th psat than sat). I told them it was fine as it is, but they want to try since most schools superscore.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm also a little clueless about the PSAT. My DC is a 9th grader and just got scores back. But is the 9th grade test different than the "real" PSAT they take later in HS? Just trying to determine what their scores mean.

Mine just got it back--it has a score, percentile overall, and english and math percentiles separately.

If they had an overall 98th percentile does this cross my fingers correlate to high SAT? Honestly was surprised they did so well.

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Was the PSAT more difficult this year? My kid got 1420 and the percentile ranking was 99 (Junior). This would have been in the 97th percentile typically (based on a google search).

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Anonymous wrote:Was the PSAT more difficult this year? My kid got 1420 and the percentile ranking was 99 (Junior). This would have been in the 97th percentile typically (based on a google search).

I would guess this means the kids are on average performing worse this year but CB wants to keep its scores equivalent year to year.

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Anonymous wrote:Was the PSAT more difficult this year? My kid got 1420 and the percentile ranking was 99 (Junior). This would have been in the 97th percentile typically (based on a google search).

yes--The number of kids doing well was down---probably due to pandemic learning loss---and it was also scored more harshly. I read this on Compass Learning.

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Anonymous wrote:Was the PSAT more difficult this year? My kid got 1420 and the percentile ranking was 99 (Junior). This would have been in the 97th percentile typically (based on a google search).

Mine got a 1380 which was also 99 percentile, probably at the lower end so does seem like scores were a bit lower.