Understanding Results from the PSAT: A Parent Tutorial (Spanish)
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Understanding Results from the PSAT: A Parent Tutorial (Spanish)
TUTORIAL PARA LOS PADRES » CÓMO INTERPRETAR LOS RESULTADOS DEL PSAT/NMSQT , 2015 ® Un estudio de caso: Ima B. Informe de resultados del PSAT/NMSQT® de una estudiante ¿Cuáles son los resultados de Ima? La puntuación de Redacción y Lectura basada en evidencia de Ima es 380 y la de Matemáticas es 480. En Redacción y Lectura basada en evidencia, la puntuación de Ima se acerca a las puntuaciones de referencia (explicadas en el informe), pero aún no está preparada para la universidad. Sin embargo, en Matemáticas, Ima excede las puntuaciones de referencia y va por buen camino para estar lista para la universidad. Las calificaciones de esta prueba, las de otras materias incluidas en esta prueba y las de ciertas secciones pueden ayudar a que Ima comprenda mejor las áreas en las que debe seguir trabajando. Dé un vistazo al ejemplo del informe de resultados de la estudiante Ima B. que aparece a continuación y en la página siguiente. Use la información correspondiente para interpretar el informe de resultados del PSAT/NMSQT de su estudiante. Your Evidence-Based Reading and Writing Score 380 | Your Nationally Representative 18th Your Total Score 860 Sample Percentile 160 Your Math Score 480 | 320 to | 1520 160 to 760 Your Nationally Representative 760 Your scores indicate you are close to being on track for college readiness, but you need to continue to strengthen your skills. Let’s get you back on track, so you won’t have to take noncredit courses in college. You have free, personalized recommendations waiting for you on khanacademy.org/sat. 28th Sample Percentile Keep in mind, the PSAT/NMSQT and SAT are on the same scale. Your Nationally Representative 47th 160 to 760 ¿Cuáles son los percentiles de sus resultados? 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* 18 Subscores 6 Reading 8 38 20 Words in Context 1 15 6 Expression of Ideas 24.0 Math 8 38 8 15 7 38 ¿Cómo le irá a Ima en el SAT®? Command of Evidence 1 Writing and Language 8 1 to 15 range* 23 Cross-Test Scores 1 15 8 Standard English Conventions 38 1 8 to 38 range 19 Analysis in History/Social Studies 18 Analysis in Science 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 9 Heart of Algebra 1 15 8 Problem Solving and Data Analysis 1 15 1 15 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 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 Ima B. Student John F. Kennedy High School, 123456, 2015, Grade 10, I.D. #24068907 Informe de resultados El PSAT/NMSQT® y el SAT se califican sobre una escala común; por consiguiente, si Ima se hubiera presentado al SAT en lugar del PSAT/NMSQT en la misma fecha de la prueba, hubiera recibido la misma calificación. Para cuando Ima se presente al SAT, posiblemente habrá seguido aprendiendo en la escuela y también habrá practicado más. Los resultados de su prueba PSAT/NMSQT pueden ayudar a Ima a concentrar sus esfuerzos en la preparatoria para estar mejor preparada para el SAT. ¿Cuáles son los rangos de sus resultados? 7 Passport to Advanced Math 1 Dado que Ima está en 10º grado, los percentiles comparan sus calificaciones con las de todos los estudiantes de 10º grado del país. Ima tuvo iguales o mejores resultados en Redacción y Lectura basada en evidencia que el 18 por ciento de un grupo representativo de estudiantes de segundo año de preparatoria a nivel nacional. En Matemáticas, tuvo iguales o mejores resultados que el 47 por ciento de un grupo representativo a nivel nacional de estudiantes de segundo año de preparatoria. Ima puede consultar otros percentiles en su informe de resultados en línea. Ninguna prueba mide con precisión lo que alguien sabe y, además, hay muchos factores que pueden afectar los resultados. Esa es la razón por la cual quienes preparan los exámenes piensan en cada calificación como un rango que incluye desde unos pocos puntos por debajo a unos pocos puntos por arriba del resultado obtenido. ¿Podrá Ima entrar al Programa de Becas National Merit®? 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. Eligibility Information You do not have a Selection Index because you lack a Reading, Writing and Language, and/or Math Test score. National Merit Scholarship Corporation Attn: Scholarship Administration 1560 Sherman Avenue, Suite 200 Evanston, IL 60201-4897 *The asterisk (*) means you do not meet entry requirements for the 2017 National Merit Scholarship Program. See your responses to entry requirements to the right. Include your name and home address along with your high school name, address, and six-digit code number. Ima tiene un Índice de Selección NMSC de 124 que es el doble de la suma de sus calificaciones de las pruebas de Lectura (18), Redacción y Lenguaje (20) y Matemáticas (24). Este índice lo usa la National Merit Scholarship Corporation para designar a los estudiantes que serán aceptados en su Programa Nacional de Becas por Mérito. Dado que en el caso de Ima aparece un asterisco al lado de su resultado, significa que no cumple con los requisitos para entrar en el programa. Sin embargo, incluso si Ima cumpliera con los requisitos de entrada, es probable que su resultado no le permita avanzar en la competencia por las becas. Para más información sobre los requisitos de entrada y sobre cómo funciona la competencia, consulte la 2015 Official Student Guide to the PSAT/NMSQT (Guía Oficial del Estudiante 2015 para el PSAT/NMSQT) o visite www.nationalmerit.org. (Information you provided on your answer sheet) 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. If any of your responses to NMSC’s “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: Your score indicates that you are already likely able to: Entry Requirements 124 NOTE: Students leaving high school and entering college in 2018 or later must take the PSAT/NMSQT again in their 3 rd year (junior year) of grades 9–12 to enter the National Merit Scholarship Program. YES Year to complete high school and enroll full-time in college: 2018 Years to be spent in grades 9–12: 4 U.S. Citizenship: NO, but I am a U.S. lawful permanent resident (or have applied for permanent residence, the application for which has not been denied) and I intend to become a U.S. citizen at the earliest opportunity allowed by law. Your Scores: Next Steps Reading Test 18 Retain or add information or ideas to a piece of a text to support claims or points in somewhat challenging text Improve your skills by focusing on your ability to: Retain or add information or ideas to a piece of text to support claims or points in challenging text Revise text as needed to improve the exactness or content appropriateness of word choices within somewhat challenging texts 8 to 38 Revise somewhat challenging text to ensure that information is presented in the most logical order Use a variety of sentence structures to accomplish a rhetorical purpose such as persuading an audience Revise text as needed to improve the exactness or content appropriateness of word choices within challenging texts Writing and Language Test Draw reasonable inferences and logical conclusions from challeng ing texts Draw reasonable conclusions from somewhat challenging texts Describe the overall structure of a somewhat challenging text Identify claims and counterclaims explicitly stated in a somewhat challenging passage 20 8 to 38 ¿Cómo puede Ima mejorar sus destrezas académicas? Analyze information presented quantitatively in such forms as graphs, tables, and charts and relate that information to information presented in somewhat challenging text Tus resultados: Próximos pasos se basa en los resultados de sus pruebas, y en las destrezas generales que entienden los estudiantes con un desempeño similar. Ima puede ver en qué destrezas tuvo un buen desempeño y en cuáles tiene que mejorar. Ella puede ingresar en su cuenta para consultar el informe completo en línea y ver las destrezas adicionales y los pasos que puede seguir para mejorar. Ima también puede enlazar su cuenta con Khan Academy® para recibir recomendaciones de práctica personalizadas. Determine how the selection of specific words shapes meaning and tone in a challenging passage Math Test Interpret a linear inequality in one variable with rational coefficients that represents a context. Select the equation of a line of best fit and interpret the slope and intercept of the line in the context of the situation (when a linear model is appropriate) Interpret sample statistics understanding and using margin of error Solve and interpret a quadratic function or equation that represents a context and requires multiple steps Calculate and interpret frequency distributions using tables and other representational methods Determine how a graph may be affected by a change to its equation 24.0 8 to 38 Determine the value of a constant or coefficient for an equation with no solution or infinitely many solutions Using a specified model, make a prediction and compare the predicted values with the actual values in the data set Within a context, compare the center of two separate data sets with different spreads Determine whether two events are independent given their probabilities Get more next steps online studentscores.collegeboard.org Your Question-Level Feedback HOA, PAM SCI 1 A B HOA, PAM HSS 2 B 3 A HOA, PAM HSS 3 A 6 C EOI, SEC HSS 4 C HOA, PAM HSS 4 D EOI, SEC 5 D HOA, PAM 5 B EOI, SEC SCI 6 B HOA, PAM SCI 6 7 C EOI, SEC SCI 7 C EOI, SEC SCI 7 C HOA, PAM SCI 8 C EOI, SEC 9 B EOI, SEC SCI 8 C EOI, SEC SCI 8 C HOA, PAM SCI 9 B EOI, SEC SCI 9 B HOA, PAM 10 B EOI, SEC SCI 10 B EOI, SEC SCI 10 B 11 A EOI, SEC HSS 11 A EOI, SEC HSS 11 12 A EOI, SEC HSS 12 A EOI, SEC HSS 13 D 13 D EOI, SEC 14 D 14 D EOI, SEC 15 A 15 A EOI, SEC 16 C EOI, SEC 16 C 17 A EOI, SEC 17 A 18 C EOI, SEC HSS 18 C 19 D EOI, SEC SCI 19 20 B EOI, SEC SCI 21 A 22 B EOI, SEC 23 A 24 A 25 C 26 D 27 C EOI, SEC 28 C 29 A 30 B 31 B 32 A 33 El informe de resultados está diseñado para que los estudiantes lo usen con su cuadernillo de pruebas PSAT/NMSQT. Este cuadernillo enlista todas las respuestas de Ima y le permite ver la respuesta correcta y el nivel de dificultad de cada pregunta. Además, puede usar su informe de resultados en línea para revisar las preguntas que contestó de forma incorrecta o que omitió, y ver las explicaciones detalladas que explican por qué sus respuestas fueron correctas o incorrectas. EOI, SEC EOI, SEC HSS HSS EOI, SEC HOA, PAM SCI 7 C HOA, PAM SCI SCI 8 C HOA, PAM SCI SCI 9 B HOA, PAM HOA, PAM SCI 10 B HOA, PAM SCI A HOA, PAM HSS 11 A HOA, PAM HSS 12 A HOA, PAM HSS 12 A HOA, PAM HSS 13 D HOA, PAM 13 D HOA, PAM 14 D HOA, PAM 15 A HOA, PAM 16 C A B HSS 14 7 HOA, PAM 15 8 HOA, PAM 16 4.5 or 9/2 HOA, PAM 17 1000 HOA, PAM HOA, PAM 17 A HOA, PAM EOI, SEC HSS 18 C HOA, PAM HSS D EOI, SEC SCI 19 D HOA, PAM SCI 20 B EOI, SEC SCI 20 B HOA, PAM SCI 21 A EOI, SEC 21 A HOA, PAM SCI 22 B EOI, SEC SCI 22 B HOA, PAM SCI EOI, SEC SCI 23 A EOI, SEC SCI 23 A HOA, PAM SCI EOI, SEC SCI 24 A EOI, SEC SCI 24 A HOA, PAM SCI EOI, SEC 25 C EOI, SEC 25 C HOA, PAM EOI, SEC 26 D EOI, SEC 26 D HOA, PAM HSS 27 C EOI, SEC HSS 27 C HOA, PAM EOI, SEC HSS 28 C EOI, SEC HSS EOI, SEC HSS 29 A EOI, SEC HSS EOI, SEC HSS 30 B EOI, SEC HSS EOI, SEC SCI 31 B EOI, SEC SCI EOI, SEC SCI 32 A EOI, SEC SCI D EOI, SEC SCI 33 D EOI, SEC SCI 34 C EOI, SEC 34 C 35 D EOI, SEC 35 D 36 A EOI, SEC 36 A EOI, SEC 37 B EOI, SEC 37 B EOI, SEC 38 A EOI, SEC 38 A EOI, SEC 39 D EOI, SEC 39 D EOI, SEC 40 B 41 A 42 C 43 A 44 B 45 D EOI, SEC 46 C EOI, SEC 47 D EOI, SEC C SCI SCI HSS 40 B EOI, SEC HSS 41 A EOI, SEC HSS 42 A EOI, SEC HSS 43 A 44 A EOI, SEC D A EOI, SEC © 2015 The College Board. College Board, AP, SAT, and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College B A 28 1000 1200 29 10, 12, 14, 16 HOA, PAM 30 8.5, 1.6 HOA, PAM 31 29 HOA, PSD EOI, SEC C EOI, SEC SCI SCI B access code EOI, SEC HSS EOI, SEC HSS EOI, SEC HSS EOI, SEC Correct Omitted Unscorable Easy Medium Hard 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 Cross-Test Score: HSS SCI Analysis in History/Social Studies Analysis in Science HSS EOI, SEC D HOA, PAM SCI Key: HSS Cross-Test Score EOI, SEC Subscore C EOI, SEC B Difficulty B Informe de resultados Board. PSAT/NMSQT is a registered trademark of the College Board and National Merit Corporation. The lamp of learning logo is a federally registered service mark of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC). Visit the College Board on the Web: collegeboard.org. You can also visit NMSC at www.nationalmerit.org. Khan Academy is a registered trademark in the United States and other jurisdictions. 00249_011 B HSS HOA, PAM B Your Answer ¿Qué puede Ima aprender de sus respuestas? EOI, SEC B D HOA, PAM D Correct Como estudiante de segundo año de preparatoria, Ima debería comenzar a planear cuándo se presentará al SAT. La mayoría de los estudiantes se presentan al SAT por primera vez en el primer año de preparatoria. Al planear ahora, Ima se puede asegurar de que ha practicado para el SAT durante un tiempo adecuado. Puede aprovechar los recursos de práctica si visita studentscores.collegeboard.org. B C Cross-Test Score 5 SCI Subscore 4 EOI, SEC HSS Difficulty HSS EOI, SEC B HSS HOA, PAM Your Answer EOI, SEC D 6 SCI HOA, PAM Correct C 5 HOA, PAM C Question # 4 Cross-Test Score A 2 HSS Subscore Correct 1 HSS EOI, SEC Difficulty Question # SCI EOI, SEC Your Answer Cross-Test Score EOI, SEC A Subscore A Difficulty B 3 Your Answer Correct Correct Question # A 2 HSS Math Test – No Calculator Question # Cross-Test Score 1 HSS EOI, SEC Subscore SCI EOI, SEC A Difficulty EOI, SEC B 3 Math Test – Calculator Question # ¿Cuándo debe presentarse IMA al SAT? Your Answer A 2 ¿Cuáles son los próximos pasos de Ima? En la sección Recibe más pasos en línea, la búsqueda de Ima es dirigida a studentscores.collegeboard.org donde verá cómo prepararse para el SAT y podrá consultar su potencial para participar en el desafiante trabajo de los cursos AP®. Writing and Language 1 Informe de resultados Correct Question # Reading Cross-Test Score Select an SAT test date and register for it now Subscore Register for the SAT See which AP courses may be good matches for you Difficulty AP and Course Work Connect to FREE, world-class SAT practice online on khanacademy.org/sat Your Answer SAT Practice A02670146P See the questions and answer explanations online studentscores.collegeboard.org © 2015 The College Board. College Board, AP, SAT, and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board. PSAT/NMSQT is a registered trademark of the College Board and National Merit Scholarship Corporation. National Merit and the corporate “Lamp of Learning” logo are federally registered service marks of National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Visit the College Board on the Web: collegeboard.org. You can also visit National Merit Scholarship Corporation at www.nationalmerit.org.