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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After today's SAT, you get the familar complaints of how the real SAT was harder than the practice test, this module was s hard, not enough time, etc.

I think the realization for many is that getting a 1550 is just hard and they just complain.

In California, only about 2000 students get to be NMSF. Now of course this is based on the PSAT and selection index, but as a point of reference a 1550 is harder to get than a selection index score of 224.

Berkeley and UCLA enroll almost 13,000 freshman. Safe to say the great majority couldn't score a 1550.

Perceptions get skewed because a magnet school that already self selected might have 50% scoring above 1500.

Still rare and in actual number, quite few.[/quote]

Why do you say a 1550 is harder than a 224? [/quote]

A selection index of 224 can be achieved with a "1530" SAT.  In quotes because obviously they are different tests.  However, the College Board allows for an alternate entry if one misses a PSAT because of illness, etc.  A 1530 will qualify you.[/quote]

Thanks. Just wondering because I know multiple kids who didn’t hit 224 on the PSAT but did score above 1530 on the SAT. But maybe that’s math vs verbal, or school culture, or maturity, or something like that. [/quote]

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