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Are these good PSAT scores for a freshman?
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Yeah, those are good scores. I think what you're missing though, and I'd like to encourage you to scour the archives of EducationAsk.com as verification, is that tests like the SAT, PSAT, MCAT, GRE, etc (no pun intended there) are what we in the education biz call "yardstick measures." It's how we figure out "Okay, so we've got two students, both girls, both valedictorians, both AP placement students. Both have extracirriculars they've done for X number of years. What seperates candidate Z from C?" Ultimately, and the other responders have written this, your work ethic in college says more than any PSAT/SAT or ACT. If you don't get into your first choice school, quite frankly, it can be the best thing for you--many times, students that have gotten in to their first choice screw up their scholarships, their GPAs, or their mental health based on the pre existing expectations that got them into their first choice, and they wind up starting from scratch. Generally speaking, and I've seen this time and again, students that start at the local level and transfer into higher level colleges (yes, that includes Harvard) are better prepared, better adjusted and better students, even if they just take a year as a commuter.
Not really that good. Just study, you'll do better.
For a freshman yes, but you will need to work harder if you want to do better on the test your junior year.
not really. i took the psat in 7th and had scores similiar to yours. just study and/or take an sat prep class to teach you the techniques you can use
its good taht u started early... you know the format and what to expect and what to work on. I'm not sure if its good grades or not but remember this was not your year to take it. You'll surely do better next time around. And in junior year you'll do even better than that. This gives you an edge.
Just prepare for the next one.
Good Luck
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