PSAT

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Anonymous wrote:My kids scores are still not up on the college board site. Who would I contact to find them? CB or the HS counselor?

He took the test on Oct 15 at Churchill.

Call College Board (google the phone number). For my kid, somehow there was a separate account created by the high school for the PSAT that didn't link up with her account. College Board then had to merge the accounts, which took about a day. They can give you the score verbally on the phone.

Thank you! I just called. My kid had the same issue. They said 5-7 business days to merge the accounts but maybe it will actually occur faster. They couldn't give me the score over the phone so we'll just have to wait.

Check tomorrow. They said the same thing to me, 5-7 day, but it was much faster.

The only weird thing is that if I try to download report, I can download the PSAT report, but not any of the other reports in the account. There must be some glitch. I can see the other scores and go to the details, but just not download a report.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids scores are still not up on the college board site. Who would I contact to find them? CB or the HS counselor?

He took the test on Oct 15 at Churchill.

Call College Board (google the phone number). For my kid, somehow there was a separate account created by the high school for the PSAT that didn't link up with her account. College Board then had to merge the accounts, which took about a day. They can give you the score verbally on the phone.

Thank you! I just called. My kid had the same issue. They said 5-7 business days to merge the accounts but maybe it will actually occur faster. They couldn't give me the score over the phone so we'll just have to wait.

Your school should be able to give you that information. They get all results the day before they are released to the students.

Who at the school gets this—registrar or counseling office?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids scores are still not up on the college board site. Who would I contact to find them? CB or the HS counselor?

He took the test on Oct 15 at Churchill.

Call College Board (google the phone number). For my kid, somehow there was a separate account created by the high school for the PSAT that didn't link up with her account. College Board then had to merge the accounts, which took about a day. They can give you the score verbally on the phone.

Thank you! I just called. My kid had the same issue. They said 5-7 business days to merge the accounts but maybe it will actually occur faster. They couldn't give me the score over the phone so we'll just have to wait.

Your school should be able to give you that information. They get all results the day before they are released to the students.

Who at the school gets this—registrar or counseling office?

Do teachers get this info?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids scores are still not up on the college board site. Who would I contact to find them? CB or the HS counselor?

He took the test on Oct 15 at Churchill.

Call College Board (google the phone number). For my kid, somehow there was a separate account created by the high school for the PSAT that didn't link up with her account. College Board then had to merge the accounts, which took about a day. They can give you the score verbally on the phone.

Thank you! I just called. My kid had the same issue. They said 5-7 business days to merge the accounts but maybe it will actually occur faster. They couldn't give me the score over the phone so we'll just have to wait.

Your school should be able to give you that information. They get all results the day before they are released to the students.

Who at the school gets this—registrar or counseling office?

It may vary school to school; DC’s private school has a specific test coordinator and she’s the one who gets the scores, although she shares with the college office. I’d start with your college office.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids scores are still not up on the college board site. Who would I contact to find them? CB or the HS counselor?

He took the test on Oct 15 at Churchill.

Call College Board (google the phone number). For my kid, somehow there was a separate account created by the high school for the PSAT that didn't link up with her account. College Board then had to merge the accounts, which took about a day. They can give you the score verbally on the phone.

Thank you! I just called. My kid had the same issue. They said 5-7 business days to merge the accounts but maybe it will actually occur faster. They couldn't give me the score over the phone so we'll just have to wait.

Your school should be able to give you that information. They get all results the day before they are released to the students.

Who at the school gets this—registrar or counseling office?

Do teachers get this info?

Probably not.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm wondering whether my kids will get commended. 218, 214 index scores.

Those scores should be solidly above the commended cutoff.

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DC score went up 230 from 10th last year, 225. He prep for SAT over the summer

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DC score went up 230 from 10th last year, 225. He prep for SAT over the summer

Huh?????

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Anonymous wrote:Midwest apparently clueless mom here -- do kids study for the PSAT? My 10th grader didn't and I didn't really think this was a thing. Same as PP, 1330 and I feel like that is just fine.

Hi from another corner of the Midwest. I keep telling DMV people that people in the Midwest don't prep much. They don't seem to believe me. The incentives just aren't there because we have less competition to get into our good schools. Then on here we get to hear people yarning on about how dumb local kids must be at our flagships because of the SAT distributions.

My 11th grader refused to take a prep class. He has no time for a sustained test prep classroom experience due to multiple ECs taking all the available evening and weekend slots. His total score was same as in 10th grade. Unfortunately his verbal score went down so he will not make National Merit Commended with a total score exactly the same as his big brother.

I really don't know how to feel about it. Whether excellence is important for the sake of excellence. Or not to care about it because this is just a sham hoop-jumping exercise invented by bureaucrats. The older I get the more I lean towards the latter. Great scores and grades are less important than career planning, networking, and EQ.

PP here -- I know! It's a totally different vibe for sure. I didn't even know the PSATs were happening until my kid told me I needed to pick him up early from school. I thought it was another teacher work day until he told me he had taken the PSATs. His school pays whatever fee there is apparently as I told him I didn't recall sending $$ in and asked if I should have.

Some states have switched to using PSAT and SAT as their state achievement tests for public middle achool and high school. We are in Michigan. Our kids take the PSAT each year from 8th-11th then SAT in spring of 11th. All paid by the school district.

Interesting, our state doesn't do that. But I just looked at the NMS qualifying numbers and they are much, much lower here than Maryland and Virginia! Sorry DCUM moms. That must be a lot of additional stress!

It's not stressfu,l because national merit scholarship is meaningless

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Anonymous wrote:
DC score went up 230 from 10th last year, 225. He prep for SAT over the summer

Huh?????

228 is maximum.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
DC score went up 230 from 10th last year, 225. He prep for SAT over the summer

Huh?????

My best guess at interpreting PP’s comment is that their son’s PSAT score went up by 230, and the index was 225.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid’s score went up 200+ points from 10th last year to 11th last month.

Did they practice or do any tutoring? Ds did well on the 10th grade test this year, but there was definitely room for improvement, especially in math. Just wondering how to approach it.

DP but does he know how to use desmos?

I don’t know. Probably not? He went in cold to it to get a baseline. He got 99th percentile on the verbal and 94th percentile on the math. I’ll sign him up for Kaplan or something like that to get practice. Sounds like learning how to use Desmos would be helpful.

There are YouTube tutorials. I’ve heard that “all math is desmos-able” so I’ll test it on my kid

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Anonymous wrote:Midwest apparently clueless mom here -- do kids study for the PSAT? My 10th grader didn't and I didn't really think this was a thing. Same as PP, 1330 and I feel like that is just fine.

Mom with a 1320 kid here, he says he wants to prep and do it again for National merit, my plan is to help him mostly myself and maybe hire a 1:1 tutor for a few hrs to explain the tips and tricks. Desmos he can learn himself.

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Anonymous wrote:Midwest apparently clueless mom here -- do kids study for the PSAT? My 10th grader didn't and I didn't really think this was a thing. Same as PP, 1330 and I feel like that is just fine.

Hi from another corner of the Midwest. I keep telling DMV people that people in the Midwest don't prep much. They don't seem to believe me. The incentives just aren't there because we have less competition to get into our good schools. Then on here we get to hear people yarning on about how dumb local kids must be at our flagships because of the SAT distributions.

My 11th grader refused to take a prep class. He has no time for a sustained test prep classroom experience due to multiple ECs taking all the available evening and weekend slots. His total score was same as in 10th grade. Unfortunately his verbal score went down so he will not make National Merit Commended with a total score exactly the same as his big brother.

I really don't know how to feel about it. Whether excellence is important for the sake of excellence. Or not to care about it because this is just a sham hoop-jumping exercise invented by bureaucrats. The older I get the more I lean towards the latter. Great scores and grades are less important than career planning, networking, and EQ.

I think it really depends on the kid.
Mine has issues with seeing stuff through from start to finish, with motivation long term, so his grades are meh as well his ECs. However he is good at working under pressure for a short while, doesn’t seem to have much testing anxiety, therefore he is a good test taker.
I told him this was his strength and window of opportunity, we’ll see if he is able to prep and do a leap his junior year

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Anonymous wrote:My 10th grader got 1450. I am happy. How much can we expect in PSAT in 11th and SAT? Any forecast formula?

You can see the scale for the corresponding sat scores.