When students first take the PSAT and get their scores back, they also get a projected range of how they will likely score when they take the SAT. Let me state very clearly that you should never limit yourself to what the “experts” predict for you. The PSAT and SAT employ as much test taking strategy as they do academic knowledge. You can break free of your “SAT score range” with proper SAT preparation. Join me in this prepcast as I relate the real SAT story of a student, now a junior at Princeton University, who marched right past her SAT range as first indicated on her PSAT. (more…)
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Real SAT Stories: PSAT to SAT Scores Are Not Preordained
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The Wrong Kind of Recycling: SAT Tests
Word is spreading about the little-known practice of the College Board to recycle complete SAT tests. The SAT exam administered worldwide on Saturday was identical to the one given in December 2005 in the United States. Apparently, SAT tests administered in 2004 and 2005 were completely recycled from prior years. This raises all sorts of issues as it opens the window for students sharing old tests online.