The College Readiness Benchmarks are designed to help you focus your future studying and work on your weak areas before starting college classes. You will be able to access your online score reports December 10th—12th this year. Some schools may hand out and explain these score reports to their students during the school day, while other schools may mail these score reports directly to parents. Either way, you should contact your counselor if you have any questions about your PSAT score report.
Although your counselor may provide you with a paper copy of your PSAT score report, you will want to access your online score report to get the most out of your results. This online report will provide you with summaries of your performance related to your scores. Before putting away your PSAT score report, make a plan for college admissions test prep. Compare your PSAT score to these average scores and think about how much time you might need to reach your goal score and get accepted to those schools.
Once you decide how long you will prep, think about how you want to prep. Many students enjoy the motivation that comes from working with a live teacher, whether that teacher is in person or live online. That depends on where you live. However, a certain percentage of students are accepted from each state, so the cutoff in your state depends on how others in your grade perform.
This scholarship, which is offered by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, provides almost 10, scholarships to students based on their outstanding abilities, skills, and accomplishments. Each year, the top 50, scorers on the PSAT get commendation letters from the National Merit program, and 16, of those students qualify as Semifinalists based on their performance compared to others in their state.
Each state has a preset number of Semifinalists, so the exact Selection Index used by your state will be whatever score more closely matches this preset number. Once the state has established its cutoff score, the students from that state who have earned that score or higher will become Semifinalists. In addition to varying by state, this number can vary by year. All questions are based on passages and have multiple choice answers. Like the Reading Test, some questions in this section have an accompanying graph or chart, but this section does not require any math.
This section also does not test specific topics or content knowledge. All of the information required to answer the questions correctly is provided by the passage. There are no penalties for low scores, nor are there prizes for strong scores. You can absolutely practice taking it in the years leading up to your junior year, but that one October offering in eleventh grade is the score that can earn you scholarship money.
It's worth pointing out that very few students are named National Merit winners. It's a paltry 7, from the initial pool of 1.
That's less than. And, while the award for winners is not an insignificant amount of money, it doesn't come close to some of the scholarships available from other avenues, many of which are renewable over four years rather than one-time payments. In fact, National Merit recognition at any level Commended, Semifinalist, or Finalist is enough to garner substantial amounts of cash for college from other avenues. Take a look at merit aid offered by colleges.
There are also private scholarships available to those recognized by National Merit. And if being recognized by National Merit at any level feels out of reach, it doesn't mean free cash for college is unattainable for you.
Overall, there are no negative consequences for low PSAT scores for anyone, but there are big rewards for the highest PSAT scores among eleventh-grade test takers. Your grade level, natural test-taking ability, time in your schedule, and scholarship goals all inform this decision.
At the very least, take any opportunity for a proctored exam like the PSAT very seriously. Do your best work so you have an accurate reflection of your best score at the moment. The more often you test and the more seriously you take the experience, the better information you have with which to make your decisions regarding the big exams: the ACT and SAT.
As you now know, this is the test that can impact your scholarship awards, but whether it will or not depends on your demonstrated testing ability and score goals. Therefore, here are two different prep tracks based on your typical testing performance.
This will help you maximize your returns from your PSAT experience without amping up stress or creating work for students who likely won't see returns from those efforts.
Please know that this is not a judgment of you. If you generally score lower than the 80th percentile on standardized exams Here are some resources to help you:. Then, once you've decided which test to take, decide on the best time for you to take your ACT or SAT using the guidance below. If you generally score higher than the 80th percentile on standardized exams As you'll have access to the program for 12 months, you'll be able to take advantage of the PSAT prep right away and prepare for the larger exam whenever it suits you over the next year or so.
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