The way I remember in (in 89) was that you had somewhere between an 20 & an 80 for verbal somewhere between a 20 & an 80 for math (to get the associated SAT score, you multiplied them by 10). And your PSAT score was two times one of the scores added to the other score - but I don’t remember which score got doubled.
This may have changed in the past (wow, it’s been that long) 13 years.
I must be either remembering the associated SAT score or my actual SAT score. I never payed that much attention to it, except to regret I didn’t prepare for it. I’m sure if I had spent any time at all studying before hand I could have broken 1500, if not perfected it. Ah well. Like they always say, if I knew then what I know now and all that.
Found another site – it looks like a personal site (so take it with a grain of salt), but it has a description of scoring from someone who apparently took the PSAT recently:
This is corroborated by this high school’s site.
I’ve found my PSAT score sheets (what a trip down memory lane that search was!), and I’m more confused than ever.
For my junior year (1985), I see Raw Scores (56 verbal, 38 math), Scaled Scores and associated percentiles (66 verbal, 99th; 63 math, 94th), and a Selection Index and it’s percentile (195, 99th). I’m going to have to assume that’s the score that is comparable to the 200-level scores being mentioned by others.
I have no idea where that 1520 came from. I see that my last SAT score was in fact a paltry 1250. I’m going to have to guess that over the years, my mind, unable to cope with that poor showing, transposed two numbers into something I could be more proud of.
KtK, you’ll be happy to know that your old SAT scores would be converted to a higher score since they changed the test:
(Assuming a 680 verbal and 570 math):
New Math: 580
New Verbal: 740
New Total: 1320!
Cool, Munch! My SAT score went up 50 points in 1996 to 1440 and I didn’t even realize it! I wonder if my employer would have cared?
Nanook:
Either you are not nuts, or we both are :eek:
I remember the PSAT as being scored exactly like the SAT. Two sections (Math, English), with the highest score being 800 each for a total of 1600. This would have been 1978 or 1979.
I scored out at 1350, which was good enough for a Merit Scholarship back in the 8-Track days 
My actual SAT score was lower, 1275 IIRC. Of course, by then, I was drinking beer…
–jack