If I understand the scoring chart correctly, it worked out to 740 in each. She missed 1 and 2 on the verbal sections, 2 and the last 3 she didn’t finish on the math sections. I just hope with a little practice she will get faster. Again, time and test materials were both lacking. I cannot give you a comparison of the difficulty of this test with other tests, because that official practice test is the only one she has taken. I would have tried to get her to make more time to study if there were actual study materials available, but since she is a sophomore, I assume that more materials will be available in the coming year and since she was busy with other things it didn’t make sense to spend a lot of time with outdated materials. What PSAT practice tests are you referring to? I only know of the one released by the CB. Considering that she is very good at math (she is taking calculus now) and is pretty good at doing timed math problems quickly (she won a few Mathcounts trophies in middle school), I find it disturbing that she wasn’t able to finish this fairly basic test. Compare Math content in the PSAT 10 and PSAT/NMSQT to the SAT to help understand how to use the assessments over time. People have said that the math section is now wordier, and indeed it was the math section she was unable to finish. When you can only afford to miss a few questions, if you don’t finish a section, that’s pretty bad. That’s always been true, but I think it may be worse with the new format. ![]() My concern is that test taking skills of fast reading and correct pacing are about as important as actually knowing the material. A lot of colleges used CR+M, but the College Board could point to CR+M+W for gender balance data. ![]() I believe more gender info is available regarding SAT scores than PSAT scores specific to the high end of the scoring range. With the SAT going back to a 1600 score that is 50/50 weighted, I wonder what will happen there. Going back to a 50% math 50% reading/writing weighting for NMSF would certainly bring on a new lawsuit, probably from FairTest and maybe from others. The lawsuit led to the addition of the writing section. There was a lawsuit brought by FairTest in 1994 related to the gender issue. I don’t know how long before 1997 the verbal score was doubled I know it was doubled for the tests given in 1981, because that’s when I took it.ĭoubling the verbal section and the addition of the writing section have helped make the NMSF population somewhat more gender balanced. IMPORTANT REMINDERS 2015 Practice Test 1 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test This cover is representative of what you’ll see on test day. So, missing 1 question on verbal was twice the deduction as missing 1 question off on math. ![]() In fact, back before they added a separate writing section in 1997, they used to just double the verbal section. This matches how it was weighted previously. The selection index for NM is 33.3% math 66.7% reading+writing. The “score” out of 1520 is 50% math 50% reading/writing, but is irrelevant for National Merit as 3scoutsmom says.
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