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Hi, Jordan Lowrance

School Name: Blue Valley Northwest High School, School Code: 172296
2015, Grade: 11th Grade
Student I.D. #10045794
Optional Code: N/A
Access Code: DMD55D29EX

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Your Evidence-Based
Reading and Writing Score

670

Your Nationally
Representative

98th

Your Total Score

1410

to
| 160
760
Sample
Percentile

160

Your Nationally
Representative

760

You are on track for college

readiness.
Stay on track and continue your
progress. Start now with your free,
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99th

Your Math Score

to
| 320
1520

740

Sample
Percentile

Keep in mind,
the PSAT/NMSQT
and SAT are on
the same scale.

Your Nationally
Representative

99th

to
| 160
760
Sample
Percentile

160

760

You are on track for college

readiness.
Stay on track and continue your
progress. Start now with your free,
personalized recommendations waiting
for you on khanacademy.org/sat.

Your score shows you how you would have

scored that day on the SAT.1 How well you
do depends on what you do next!

The College and Career Readiness Benchmark

Reaching your grade-level Benchmark means that you are likely on track to be ready to succeed in select first-year, credit-bearing college courses.
Need to Strengthen Skills

Approaching Benchmark

Meet or Exceed Benchmark

*The red, yellow, and green ranges in the test scores and subscores reflect your areas of strengths and weaknesses compared to the typical performance of students in your grade.

Test Scores 8 to 38 range*

8

Subscores

34 Reading

38

38

38

33 Writing and Language

12 Command of Evidence

15

13 Words in Context

37.0 Math

15

13 Expression of Ideas

1 to 15 range*

23

Cross-Test Scores

15

12 Standard English Conventions

38

15

8 to 38 range

36 Analysis in History/ Social Studies

37 Analysis in Science

15 Heart of Algebra
1

15

15 Problem Solving and Data Analysis

When you take tests more than once, your scores may differ slightly upon each testing
occasion. This expected variation is considered your score range and reflects the range
your scores will likely fall in upon retesting. For the PSAT/NMSQT these ranges are
approximately:
Total: Your score 40 points.
Section: Your score 30 points.
Test Scores and Cross-Test Scores: Your score 3 points.
Subscores: Your score 2 points.

15

15 Passport to Advanced Math

1

15

10

11

12 13

14 15

Remember that you will receive scores in the same areas when you take the SAT.
1. Beginning in March 2016

Jordan Lowrance
Blue Valley Northwest High School, 172296, 2015, Grade: 11th Grade, I.D. #10045794

National Merit Scholarship Corporation

Your NMSC Selection Index

National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) conducts the

National Merit Scholarship Program, an academic
competition for recognition and college scholarships. To
designate students who qualify for recognition in its 2017
competition, NMSC will consider the 2015 PSAT/NMSQT
Selection Index scores of some 1.5 million test-takers (usually
high school juniors) who meet program entry requirements.
For more information, please visit: www.nationalmerit.org.

Entry Requirements
(Information you provided on your answer sheet)

208

High school student:

NMSC uses a Selection Index based on PSAT/NMSQT

scores as an initial screen of students who enter its
scholarship programs. To calculate your Selection Index,
double the sum of of your Reading, Writing and
Language, and Math Test scores.

Yes
Year to complete high school and enroll full-time
in college:
2017

If any of your responses to NMSCs Entry Requirements

questions (see right-hand column) are inaccurate or there
has been a change in plans that may affect program entry,
write immediately to:

Eligibility Information
If your Selection Index places you among the 50,000 high
scorers who qualify for National Merit Scholarship Program
recognition, you will be notified next September.

National Merit Scholarship Corporation

Attn: Scholarship Administration
1560 Sherman Avenue, Suite 200
Evanston, IL 60201-4897

Years to be spent in grades 912:

4
U.S. Citizenship:
Yes

Include your name and home address along with your high
school name, address, and six-digit code number.

Your Scores: Next Steps

Your score indicates that you are

already likely able to:

Reading Test

Make an accurate, somewhat subtle or complex interpretations of

data in an informational graphic, such as a table, graph, or chart (e.g.,
comparing results in terms of two variables; recognizing an
implication of the values represented on a table); draw a ...
Compare two authors' positions in a pair of complex passages (e.g.,
determining the extent to which two authors agree or disagree about
a claim)

34

8 to 38

Improve your skills by focusing on your ability to:

Challenging texts sometimes require you to make inferences and
draw your own conclusions. In addition, the evidence provided is
sometimes subtle, abstract, or figurative. When you are reading these
texts, practice drawing your own conclusions and then analyze ...
Practice reading a wide variety of charts and graphs. Examine the
graphs carefully, and be sure you can make accurate interpretations
of data, even when those interpretations are subtle or complex. Be
sure you can compare results among multiple variables, ...

Additional skills can be found in your online report

Writing and Language Test

Use a transitional word, phrase, clause, or sentence to establish a
logical relationship between sentences or paragraphs (e.g., signaling
a shift in emphasis or focus)
Form conventional, complete sentences, recognizing and correcting a
relatively subtle disruption in structure (e.g., eliminating a rhetorically
inappropriate fragment created by the use of a semicolon;
maintaining parallelism in a series of phrases; choosing or ...

In your writing and revising, use data accurately interpreted,

paraphrased, or summarized from an informational graphic (e.g., a
table, graph, or chart).

33

8 to 38

In your writing and revising, make sophisticated decisions about

adding, revising, or deleting information in order to sharpen the focus
of a paragraph or text.
In your writing and revising, use supporting information to ...

Additional skills can be found in your online report

Math Test
Create linear relationships and use tables and graphs to solve a
problem, interpret terms, and make connections between different
representations of linear equations in one variable, linear functions,
linear equations in two variables, systems of two linear equations ...
Solve problems using special right triangles

37.0

This is the top score band, and students who score at this level will
likely have mastered the skills listed at all other levels. However, it is
important to continue to refine and solidify mathematical procedural
fluency and conceptual knowledge. Therefore, we ...

8
8 to
to 38
38

Solve problems using the Pythagorean theorem

Additional skills can be found in your online report

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Your Question-Level Feedback

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Score

Subscore

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HSS

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SCI

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14

35

15

HOA

16

5/3,
1.66,
1.67

PAM

17

36

HSS

16

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HSS

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SEC

16

HOA

17

COE

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17

WIC, EOI

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21

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21

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22

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23

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SEC

COE

COE, EOI

COE, EOI

28

HOA

29

480

PAM

30

46.8

PSD

31

38.8,
38.9

PSD

SEC

37

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37

WIC, EOI

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SCI

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40

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COE, EOI

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access code

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DMD55D29EX

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SEC
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WIC

Correct

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Score

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WIC, EOI

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Math Test No Calculator

Cross-Test
Score

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Math Test Calculator

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Correct

Writing and Language

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Your Answer

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Question #

Reading

Subscore:
COE
WIC
EOI
SEC
HOA
PSD
PAM

Command of Evidence
Words in Context
Expression of Ideas
Standard English Conventions
Heart of Algebra
Problem Solving and Data Analysis
Passport to Advanced Math

HSS

Cross-Test Score:
HSS
SCI

Analysis in History/Social Studies

Analysis in Science

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