My kid had similar scores in 9th grade. Ended with a 1590 and NMS.

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Anonymous wrote:It means your kid is a decent student but will not be a competitive applicant for upper tier schools.

Not true. Kid may end up in 1500s with prep. My kid has already raised hers by about 300 points as a junior. A lot of variables, including math level when first took, timing issues, and prep. It’s a good score for a ninth grader and shows ability to prep to a higher scores.

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Also, some kids get better at attacking these tests as they get older.

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Anonymous wrote:It means your kid is a decent student but will not be a competitive applicant for upper tier schools.

Not true. Kid may end up in 1500s with prep. My kid has already raised hers by about 300 points as a junior. A lot of variables, including math level when first took, timing issues, and prep. It’s a good score for a ninth grader and shows ability to prep to a higher scores.

Doesn't mean it's not true. It just means a lot can happen and do happen between 9th and 11th grade.

Anonymous wrote:It means your kid is a decent student but will not be a competitive applicant for upper tier schools.

Not true. Kid may end up in 1500s with prep. My kid has already raised hers by about 300 points as a junior. A lot of variables, including math level when first took, timing issues, and prep. It’s a good score for a ninth grader and shows ability to prep to a higher scores.

It means your kid is a decent student but will not be a competitive applicant for upper tier schools.

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Anonymous wrote:The PSAT score is supposed to roughly equate with what a student would get a year later on the SAT. (It's basically the same test, but without the very hardest questions that would appear on the SAT.) So you can think of it as predicting that the kid would get roughly an 1190 on the SAT if taken next year.

It's really hard to calibrate what this means for a 9th grader. I don't know of any percentile charts that young. You can probably google to find the percentile charts for sophomore year, because that is a more common time to take the PSAT.

What might be more useful for you is to look at the types of questions missed or sections of the exam and see if you want to do any supplementing in that area.

No. Add 100 to each year. So a 1190 PSAT score in 9th grade means that if they took SAT in 9th grade on the same day as PSAT, they would score a 1190 on the SAT.

It predicts that their PSAT and SAT score would be 1290 in 10th grade.

Their PSAT and SAT on the same trajectory of preparedness would be 1390 on 11th grade.

Their SAT score would be a 1490 in Fall of senior year (as there is no PSAT in 12th grade).

My advice - connect your collegeboard account with khan academy (there is a button to click on the website). Khan Academy does a diagnostic of your kid's performance on the PSAT and provides a customized study plan and tutoring for areas of weakness. All for free.

Also, take every single PSAT that you get a chance to take. In the 11th grade, the PSAT is NMSQT and it gives you a chance for the National Merit Scholarship.

Anonymous wrote:The PSAT score is supposed to roughly equate with what a student would get a year later on the SAT. (It's basically the same test, but without the very hardest questions that would appear on the SAT.) So you can think of it as predicting that the kid would get roughly an 1190 on the SAT if taken next year.

It's really hard to calibrate what this means for a 9th grader. I don't know of any percentile charts that young. You can probably google to find the percentile charts for sophomore year, because that is a more common time to take the PSAT.

What might be more useful for you is to look at the types of questions missed or sections of the exam and see if you want to do any supplementing in that area.

No. Add 100 to each year. So a 1190 PSAT score in 9th grade means that if they took SAT in 9th grade on the same day as PSAT, they would score a 1190 on the SAT.

It predicts that their PSAT and SAT score would be 1290 in 10th grade.

Their PSAT and SAT on the same tracjectory of preparedness would be 1390 on 11th grade.

Their SAT score would be a 1490 in Fall of senior year (as there is no PSAT in 12th grade).

My advice - connect your collegeboard account with khan academy (there is a button to click on the website). Khan Academy does a diagnostic of your kid's performance on the PSAT and provides a customized study plan and tutoring for areas of weakness. All for free.

The PSAT score is supposed to roughly equate with what a student would get a year later on the SAT. (It's basically the same test, but without the very hardest questions that would appear on the SAT.) So you can think of it as predicting that the kid would get roughly an 1190 on the SAT if taken next year.

It's really hard to calibrate what this means for a 9th grader. I don't know of any percentile charts that young. You can probably google to find the percentile charts for sophomore year, because that is a more common time to take the PSAT.

What might be more useful for you is to look at the types of questions missed or sections of the exam and see if you want to do any supplementing in that area.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not OP, but my 9th grader at Poolesville didn’t sign up to take the PSAT, yet they had to take an unofficial practice test today. They were given an answer sheet and instructions to calculate their score and got to bring the whole packet home.

Either the packet included paperwork that gives percentages for scores and gives you a future predicted SAT score or my dc googled it, because dc was able to tell me that information.

DP here, my child is also in 9th grade at poolesville hs. How are you and your child liking poolesville high so far?

DC is very happy with PHS and the humanities house and is doing well so far. Many of dc’s friends are also there, and they’re enjoying the high school experience. Open lunch is a plus. So far, the construction hasn’t been too disruptive.

I hope your dc is happy too.

Thank you for your reply. Our dc is liking it so far. Dc and her friends have complained to me about the construction and walking to the portables on rainy and future cold days is pretty bad. Because of the construction there are so many portable, many of dc classes are in the portable and they are pretty far from the main building. Dc schedule is such that if one class is in the main building, the next class is in the portable, and then dc goes back to the main building and so forth. It’s a lot of shuttling back and forth. Some of dc teachers are good…others not so much. It’s a hit or miss. A lot of the teachers don’t teach and just lecture and go off topic. It’s been a lot of self study on my dc part. We weren’t expecting that. Glad your dc is liking phs.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not OP, but my 9th grader at Poolesville didn’t sign up to take the PSAT, yet they had to take an unofficial practice test today. They were given an answer sheet and instructions to calculate their score and got to bring the whole packet home.

Either the packet included paperwork that gives percentages for scores and gives you a future predicted SAT score or my dc googled it, because dc was able to tell me that information.

DP here, my child is also in 9th grade at poolesville hs. How are you and your child liking poolesville high so far?

DC is very happy with PHS and the humanities house and is doing well so far. Many of dc’s friends are also there, and they’re enjoying the high school experience. Open lunch is a plus. So far, the construction hasn’t been too disruptive.

I hope your dc is happy too.

Anonymous wrote:I’m not OP, but my 9th grader at Poolesville didn’t sign up to take the PSAT, yet they had to take an unofficial practice test today. They were given an answer sheet and instructions to calculate their score and got to bring the whole packet home.

Either the packet included paperwork that gives percentages for scores and gives you a future predicted SAT score or my dc googled it, because dc was able to tell me that information.

DP here, my child is also in 9th grade at poolesville hs. How are you and your child liking poolesville high so far?

Thanks.

I’m not OP, but my 9th grader at Poolesville didn’t sign up to take the PSAT, yet they had to take an unofficial practice test today. They were given an answer sheet and instructions to calculate their score and got to bring the whole packet home.

Either the packet included paperwork that gives percentages for scores and gives you a future predicted SAT score or my dc googled it, because dc was able to tell me that information.

Where were you able to see the score?

My 9th grade child received a combine score of 1170 on an informal PSAT taken at the school today. What does this mean? Is this a good score, what percentile is this?