Anonymous
Post 10/27/2025 21:37     Subject: PSAT
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am looking for prep class for SAT


Please do not do this!

SAT preparation courses are the opposite of equitable. Further, SAT preparation will unfairly advantage your child, who already benefits from unearned white privilege.


How do you know they are white?
Anonymous
Post 10/27/2025 17:31     Subject: PSAT
Anonymous wrote:FCPS is awful.


Why?
Anonymous
Post 10/27/2025 08:05     Subject: PSAT
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am looking for prep class for SAT


Please do not do this!

SAT preparation courses are the opposite of equitable. Further, SAT preparation will unfairly advantage your child, who already benefits from unearned white privilege.


FCPS provides FREE tutoring through Varsity Tutoring. My son did this and scored a 1420 on the PSAT. 100% free. He also took the free practice tests provided by College Board.

https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/practice

Khan Academy provides free SAT prep:
https://www.khanacademy.org/digital-sat

Free SAT Prep Resources:

https://www.enactyourfuture.com/free-sat-resources.html

Anonymous
Post 10/25/2025 13:38     Subject: PSAT
FCPS is awful.
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2025 12:47     Subject: PSAT
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am looking for prep class for SAT


Please do not do this!

SAT preparation courses are the opposite of equitable. Further, SAT preparation will unfairly advantage your child, who already benefits from unearned white privilege.


Oh stop with your trolling nonsense.
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2025 12:47     Subject: PSAT
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Anonymous wrote:DS got 1480 on PSAT/NMQNT. He’s a junior. SI comes to 220.
Have they already announced state cutoff for VA? I got some info but not sure if that’s for class of 2027.
When would the cutoffs would be announced?
I am happy with his score but he was asked by some friends if he would qualify as a semi finalist.


What does SI stand for?


Answering my own question from a 5 year old Reddit post, Skypetutor says:

PSAT/NMSQT Selection Index (SI) score formula = [2(Verbal score out of 760) + (Math score out of 760)] / 10
For example, a perfect score of 1520 on the PSAT would earn you a 228 selection index.

2(760) + 760 = 1520 + 760 = 2280

2280/10 = 228

A score of 1440 with a perfect 760 on Verbal and 680 on Math would earn you a 220 selection index.

2(760) + 720 = 1520 + 720 = 2240

2240/10 = 220

Conversely, the very same composite score of 1440, with a 680 on Verbal and a perfect 760 on Math, would only earn you a 212 selection index.

2(680) + 760 = 1360 + 760 = 2120

2120/10 = 212

As you can see, the distribution of Math and Verbal scores matters quite a lot, given that Verbal scores have twice the weight.


And why is verbal weighted more? Seems silly and doesn’t make sense.


The verbal was double weighted a few years back because boys scored much higher than girls on the PSAT when the math and verbal were weighted equally.

SATs solution was to double weight the verbal to raise the scores of girls to a similar level as boys scores.


I bet it closes racial and other achievement gaps to do that as welll…


But it doesn't really close any gaps when you double weight one category over the other.

It just hides the difference in achievement an penalizes the our future engineers and scientists.
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2025 12:24     Subject: PSAT
Anonymous wrote:I am looking for prep class for SAT


Please do not do this!

SAT preparation courses are the opposite of equitable. Further, SAT preparation will unfairly advantage your child, who already benefits from unearned white privilege.