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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Using SAT Scores to Understand Scores on Other Assessments

The SAT Suite—from the PSAT 8/9 through the SAT—uses a common score scale for the total and section scores. The
ranges reported for each assessment reflect grade-level appropriateness within the common score scale.

This common score scale means that a student who took the SAT and received a Math section score of 500 would be expected to also get a 500 on the PSAT/NMSQT, PSAT 10, or PSAT 8/9 if they had taken any of those tests on that same day; a score of 500 represents the same level of academic achievement on all 4 assessments.

This also means that student growth across the SAT Suite is easy to determine. If a student took the PSAT/NMSQT or PSAT 10 last year and received a 500 Math section score, then took the SAT this year and earned a 550 Math section score, that student has shown a growth of 50 points, which likely resulted from hard work both in and out of school."

https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/sat-understanding-scores.pdf[/quote]

But how does that make sense when the two tests have different max? A kid who gets a perfect PSAT score is equivalent to what SAT score?[/quote]

Usually there is a correlation between the two, namely NMSF winners most likely also have a high SAT score.  But not always.  SAT is more difficult than psat.  
In many private schools, they don't prep for psat but use psat as a part of setting the baseline for SAT prep.  They typically go in unprepped to take the psat.  There are far less NMSFs from private schools, which doesn't mean their SAT scores will be correspondingly low.
Personally I think there is very little value to prep for psat, unless you are after USC merit scholarship.  [/quote]

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