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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]By some miracle, 10th grade DS taking the test cold achieved a perfect score of 1520. Please forgive my ignorance (first kid), but is this a valid enough predictor for next year’s PSAT (when it actually counts for National Merit) and SAT that he can completely forgo test prep? I would really love to save the money, but don’t wish to sandbag my kid relative to his peers who will be taking boot camps and such this summer.[/quote]

I mean…how important is it to your kid to get a perfect score every time? What’s his history with standardized tests?

My 9th grader scored in the 99+%ile on the PSAT 8/9, and he’s always been a good test taker. (My older kid isn’t as strong on standardized tests, so this is my first go-round with a no-prep high-scorer.) I assume he’ll keep doing better and don’t have any inclination to have him do prep just for the sake of getting a perfect score—which your kid already has!

If I were you, I’d have him take the SAT next summer and see how he does; if any obvious issues emerge, he could do some self-guided prep before the PSAT in October.

But mainly, I’d be telling your kid that he did great and not to expect a perfect score every time. He’s clearly going to do really well, regardless, and how he sleeps the night before or the particular combination of questions on the test is more likely determine whether he gets a perfect score or something just shy of it than how much he preps.[/quote]

He’s totally fine not getting a perfect score, but would like to stay in the 99+ percentile. If his 1520 is a good enough predictor for that, he’ll be happy.[/quote]

99th percentile is easy to attain.  My son got a 1450 (a few years back) and he was in 99 percentile.  If he scored 1520 on the PSAT, leave it and start prepping for the SAT when the time comes.  He will likely get close to a perfect score...but unlikely to be perfect.[/quote]

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