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[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]

I think it really depends on the kid.
Mine has issues with seeing stuff through from start to finish, with motivation long term, so his grades are meh as well his ECs. However he is good at working under pressure for a short while, doesn’t seem to have much testing anxiety, therefore he is a good test taker.
I told him this was his strength and window of opportunity, we’ll see if he is able to prep and do a leap his junior year[/quote]

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