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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Midwest apparently clueless mom here -- do kids study for the PSAT?  My 10th grader didn't and I didn't really think this was a thing.  Same as PP, 1330 and I feel like that is just fine.[/quote]

Hi from another corner of the Midwest.  I keep telling DMV people that people in the Midwest don't prep much.  They don't seem to believe me.  The incentives just aren't there because we have less competition to get into our good schools.  Then on here we get to hear people yarning on about how dumb local kids must be at our flagships because of the SAT distributions.

My 11th grader refused to take a prep class.  He has no time for a sustained test prep classroom experience due to multiple ECs taking all the available evening and weekend slots.  His total score was same as in 10th grade.  Unfortunately his verbal score went down so he will not make National Merit Commended with a total score exactly the same as his big brother.

I really don't know how to feel about it.  Whether excellence is important for the sake of excellence.  Or not to care about it because this is just a sham hoop-jumping exercise invented by bureaucrats.  The older I get the more I lean towards the latter.  Great scores and grades are less important than career planning, networking, and EQ.[/quote]

PP here -- I know! It's a totally different vibe for sure. I didn't even know the PSATs were happening until my kid told me I needed to pick him up early from school.  I thought it was another teacher work day until he told me he had taken the PSATs.  His school pays whatever fee there is apparently as I told him I didn't recall sending $$ in and asked if I should have.[/quote]

Some states have switched to using PSAT and SAT as their state achievement tests for public middle achool and high school.  We are in Michigan.  Our kids take the PSAT each year from 8th-11th then SAT in spring of 11th.  All paid by the school district.[/quote]

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