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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This isn’t to diss kids with high scores on the PSAT. They are certainly smart! But they aren’t smarter/better prepared for college than kids with middling scores on the PSAT who go on later to attain a high score on the SAT during their junior year or fall of senior year. NMSF success just means that the students prepped earlier. It’s bizarre that there is even a metric to weigh the test scores of 10th graders by individual states let alone to award prizes and have schools publicizing the results. [b]In what other realm do we lionize those who excel *in practice* thanks to extra/early tutoring?[/b][/quote]

Agree with this completely.  I have 3 kids and one agreed to prep for the SAT before junior year.  She has always been more amenable to parental suggestions. Mom: "hey you should go through these books and do the problems for an hour a day this summer." Her "ok, sure!". She rocked the PSAT and is a NMSF.  The other wouldn't prep or engage with anything college related until much later in junior year. They did not do as well on the PSAT as they took it cold.  However, eventually they too studied and all 3 of my kids ended up with the same SAT scores (1530+).  [/quote]

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