My 11th grader just got her PSAT back- 760 math and 700 reading/writing (1460), but "only" got 1420 on the SAT in August. Is that a good sign there is room for improvement when she takes the SAT next month? She really wants to get over 1500. I think more to beat her older sister

If she doesn't get her goal in December, my thought is to wait until August 2026 to retake.

um, went from 1380 to 1540. it can happen.

Anonymous wrote:1350 psat in 11th is likely a 1380-1450 SAT. Aim for schools where that is close to average to find a good fit. A 1350 psat in 11th does not indicate they will be able to get above 1500 on the SAT, and if they do it is likely a fluke. Their true talent level is 93-96th%ile, not 98-99th. T20 are not going to be a good fit.

You red nosed clown. It is just as likely that the 1350 was a "fluke" and that this kid's "true talent level" is 99th percentile.

You believing you can understand anything at all about a student you have never met based on a single number is laughable!

Do you squeeze into tiny cars with the other DCUM trolls? Or are you a solo act?

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99% of SAT tutors are worthless. Play the odds. Craft your child's SAT study plan.

For one month, 1 hour a day, 5 days a week, study how to take the SAT. Learn what is asked and in what percentage for the two disciplines. Learn to spot easy answers. Learn now to eliminate answers. This requires no material learning knowledge. Just learn how to take the test. How long each section is, how many minutes per question one should be using. Learn time management. How to jump from a hard question that might prevent you from answering multiple easy ones because you ran out of time.

Then progress to each section, breaking each section down to its constituent parts. The SAT. It is considered a standardized test because you know ahead of time what it is going to test. Work your weakness, whether its english conventions or algebra.

Sign up for a cheap prep service like Uworld. Do every single problem they have on offer. Do the same for Khan Academy.

Print out the old paper tests. On reddit there are depositories of hundreds of past SAT's. Be careful re relevancy as the questions change, especially with the introduction of the DSAT. But still a wealth of information.

Find youtubers that teach your style. Watch them solve problems. Use google/chatGPT to make up your own problems.

If you grind like this, you will get a 1350 PSAT scorer to 1500 easy. You have multiple attempts plus superscoring.

Why then is a 1500 a 98th percentile score if anyone can do it? Because many humans are lazy and shortsighted.

Be the kid that will outwork your friend.

Anonymous wrote:a 1350 is more like a 1440 on SAT fwiw. so getting to a 1500 is doable with tutoring and dedicated practice.

This is the way.

You might be able to squeeze an extra 30-50 points with a lot more time and expense assuming you can find a tutor that can figure out why your kid is getting those half dozen questions wrong but that requires a little bit of luck