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How important is the PSAT?

I've taken the PSAT this school year, and I'm not entirely satisfied with my score. Is it worth it to retake it or should I focus on my SAT?

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Srividhya the first major difference is the purpose of each of these tests. Whereas the SAT is a common requirement for college admissions, the PSAT is just a SAT practice test, in other words, the PSAT is essentially a precursor to the SAT and it is not as important as the SAT. In regard to colleges, the PSAT has no impact on your admission chances, while the SAT typically does. Even a super low score on the PSAT would have no effect on your college applications. By contrast, a super low SAT score could significantly lower your college admission chances.

Srividhya here's were it gets interesting, can you retake the SAT? Yes, and you can take it as many times as you like. The College Board provides no restrictions on how often you can take the SAT. Preparing for the college admission process in advance is crucial for reducing the level of stress. If you’re wondering how to improve SAT scores, the early prep process is your key to success. Besides, if you start preparing beforehand, you’ll have more time to retake the test. According to the College Board, students who take the SAT more than once usually improve their results.

Make every effort to prepare for the SAT, but if your first SAT score isn’t what you expected it to be, you can try to improve on it.

Hope this was helpful Srividhya
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Brianna’s Answer

Hi, Srividhya,

The PSAT is ultimately a practice test for the SAT. Colleges and universities do not ask for PSAT scores. Take your strengths and weaknesses on the PSAT as a learning experience to inform what topics you should study for on the SAT.

Rememeber that a growing number of univeristies arent even requiring standardized test scores for their applicants. Be sure to research if your chosen universities ask for a standardized test before taking it. Also remember that there are options including the ACT and SAT subject tests.
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Raquel’s Answer

The PSAT is a test to provide you with a gauge of how you're doing. It's a good way to help prepare for the SAT, but isn't worth retaking if you aren't happy with the score. Take the time to figure out what you struggled with and use that to build a study plan for the SAT. The PSAT is ultimately a tool to try and help you do better on the SAT by showing you your strengths and weaknesses. If you focus on improving your weak spots, it should reflect in your SAT scores. If you take the SAT and are still not satisfied, you can always take it again, so long as you do better than the first time you took it school's won't care that you took it again.
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Bob’s Answer

SAT IS mportant - and I am sure you know this - it's the way colleges compare potential student applicants from different schools, school districts, counties and states - it's the great high school equalizer. They will of course look at your grades but they may set minimum scores for SAT

So do the PSAT and then the SAT and if your score is lower than you want get some private tutoring to get the score up - your SAT score alone my help you get your tuition fully funded - I have seen that.

The SAT exam has it's own method - private tuition and re-testing will help you familiarize yourself to the method and with it a higher score.

High SAT score = greater number of options. Go for it 👍😀
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