Your Child’s PSAT Results Helping your child to take control of their PSAT and SAT scores ©2019 SBCUSD Family Engagement

Objective and Overview OBJECTIVE: To help you understand how your child’s PSAT results relate to their college and career goals and how to support your child so they have the best opportunities for college admissions and scholarships later. ©2019 SBCUSD Family Engagement

Putting PSAT scores in context Matching your child’s effort to their personal, academic and career goals: Classes and grades Testing—Admissions (PSAT/SAT/ACT) and placement/credit (AP/IB) Extracurriculars—Depth and achievement ©2019 SBCUSD Family Engagement

Framing your child’s PSAT 8/9 scores Where is your child currently, based on their PSAT 8/9 score? Where would they like to go? How are they going to get there? ©2019 SBCUSD Family Engagement

Record the PSAT score Take your child’s PSAT 8/9 total score… 920 450 470 ©2019 SBCUSD Family Engagement

Record the PSAT score …and then write it in the PSAT 8/9 column. 920 ©2019 SBCUSD Family Engagement

Highlight colleges Highlight or underline all of the colleges your child is interested in (60th percentile minimum). ©2019 SBCUSD Family Engagement

Find the highest-scoring college Circle the highest-scoring college. ©2019 SBCUSD Family Engagement

Figure out the points to go Subtract your child’s PSAT 8/9 score from the score of the highest-scoring college. 1540 -920 620 Points to go 920 ©2019 SBCUSD Family Engagement

Figure out the points per year Divide the points to go by 3 (the number of years before they take the PSAT/NMSQT). 1540 -920 620 Points to go ➗3 207 Points per year (round up) 920 ©2019 SBCUSD Family Engagement

Figure out the hours per week Multiply your child’s points per year by .015 to give you the hours per week your child should study—above and beyond their class assignments. 1540 -920 620 Points to go ➗3 207 Points per year x.015 3.1 Hours per week 920 ©2019 SBCUSD Family Engagement

Start studying! The number of hours per week is the number of hours your child will probably need to study above and beyond all of their class assignments—even if they have all A’s. (No one gets into Harvard, Stanford or Yale without putting in lots of extra work.) ©2019 SBCUSD Family Engagement

Getting personalized practice To get personalized practice and measure their effort and progress, your child should use the Khan Academy website. ©2019 SBCUSD Family Engagement

What you can do to help? You can help your child best by: Helping them to understand the goals they have and matching their effort to their goals. “Pros not only work harder, they work way, way, way harder.” --Till Gross, personal coach and motivational speaker ©2019 SBCUSD Family Engagement

What you can do to help? You can help your child best by: Showing them examples of world-class student achievement. ©2019 SBCUSD Family Engagement

What you can do to help? You can help your child best by: Helping them to understand different levels of learning and achievement. “Amateurs practice until they get it right. Pros practice until they can’t get it wrong.” --Anonymous ©2019 SBCUSD Family Engagement

What you can do to help? You can help your child best by: Having them start boosting their scores now. ©2019 SBCUSD Family Engagement

The Benefits Scoring high on the PSAT/SAT has several benefits: Increased chance of admission to the best universities in the world More scholarship money National recognition for your child’s academic achievements Invitations to special programs ©2019 SBCUSD Family Engagement

Additional Information Websites: SBCUSD.com/parents (College and Career/Preparation/Testing/PSAT 8/9) SBCUSD.com/parents (NMS100) Collegeboard.org Khanacademy.org Contact Info: randall.olson@sbcusd.com (909) 382-1550 ©2019 SBCUSD Family Engagement

Questions? Comments? ©2019 SBCUSD Family Engagement