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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have an 11th grader and 9th grader.

My 11th grader had never taken the psat due to covid (and it wasn't offered at his pubic HS in grade 9). Other than announcing the test date, the school didn't send home any prep materials or suggest prepping at all, he didn't give it any thought. So he took it "cold."

My 9th grader took it this year at her private school. On a day before the test, the English teachers spent a little time going over the format of the test and some general test tips.

I have to speculate that my 9th grader will do better on the psat in grade 11, when it counts for National Merit, than the 11th grader just did (and I would think that many 11th graders were in the same boat of never having been exposed to the test before, which probably means raw scores on the whole were lower in grade 11 this year). And I am comparing a high performing public HS with a private, there would obviously be lots of other disparities between other high schools. [/quote]

There's already evidence that scores were lower for 11th graders nationwide than in the past.

On the other hand, it seems to me that more and more kids are starting to take the SAT for the first time in Aug or Oct of their junior year, after prepping over the summer. So there's a decent number of kids who probably took their first PSAT after having already taken the SAT once, if not twice. [/quote]

Not surprising but where did you read this evidence?[/quote]

https://www.compassprep.com/national-merit-semifinalist-cutoffs/

Toward the middle of the page it explains: "Only 3% of students scored at or above 1400 this year. That’s the lowest value we’ve seen — tied with an October 2019 PSAT that had an unusually difficult scale. Three things could produce that low of a figure: (1) the October 2021 exam also had a challenging scale or (2) student learning has been impaired during the pandemic and test performance reflects it or (3) a disproportionate number of high scorers were unable (or chose not) to test." He goes on to explain that the likely explanations are 1 or 2 since far more schools offered PSAT this year as compared to last year.[/quote]

Interesting. My kid scored 1430 which per College Board was 99th percentile (in reading and math). Not sure how that correlates to 3% of students scoring above 1400. [/quote]

I think that 99% is based on more than just 11th graders who took it this year. If you click on ? next to 99%, the College Board website says: "User group percentiles are based on all PSAT/NMSQT and PSAT 10 tests administered in the past three school years." [/quote]

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