PSAT 8/9 Practice Test 1 - Scoring Your Paper - Score Your Practice Test

Aug 29, 2026

Scoring Your Paper PSAT 8/9 Practice Test #1 provides step-by-step instructions for converting answer key results into section and total score ranges. It explains how to count correct responses for Reading and Writing and for Math across modules 1 and 2, then use raw-score conversion tables to obtain scaled scores on 120–720 and total scores on 240–1440. The guide also clarifies that paper scoring is a simplified method with slightly less precision than the actual test.

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Scores Overview

How to Calculate Your Practice Test Scores

Score Your Practice Test

Calculate Your Scores

PSAT 8/9 Practice Test Worksheet: Answer Key

Get Section and Total Scores

Get Your Reading and Writing Section Score

Get Your Math Section Score

Get Your Total Score

Scoring Your Paper PSAT 8/9 Practice Test \#1 Congratulations on completing a PSAT™ 8/9 practice test. To score your test, follow the instructions in this guide. IMPORTANT: This scoring guide is for students who completed the paper version of this digital PSAT 8/9 practice test. | 1 Total Score
240–1440 Scale |
Total Score | | | --- | --- | --- | | 2 Section Scores
120–720 Scale |
Reading and Writing |
Math | | | Modules 1 & 2 | Modules 1 & 2 | Scores Overview Each assessment in the digital SAT® Suite of Assessments (SAT, PSAT/NMSQT®, PSAT™ 10, and PSAT 8/9) reports test scores on a common scale. For more details about scores, [visit](visit psat.org/8-9-scores)[ psat.org/8-9-scores](visit psat.org/8-9-scores). How to Calculate Your Practice Test Scores The worksheets on pages 4 and 5 help you calculate your test scores. GET SET UP 1 In addition to your practice test, you’ll need the conversion tables and answer key at the end of this guide. SCORE YOUR PRACTICE TEST 2 Compare your answers to the answer key on page 4, and count up the total number of correct answers for each section. Write the number of correct answers for each section in the answer key at the bottom of that section. CALCULATE YOUR SCORES 3 Using your marked-up answer key and the conversion tables, follow the directions on page 5 to get your section and test scores. PSAT 8/9 Practice Test Worksheet: Answer Key Mark each of your correct answers below, then add them up to get your raw score on each module. 4 | | | | --- | --- | | PSAT 8/9 Practice Test Worksheet: Section and Total Scores

Conversion: Calculate Your Section and Total Scores
Enter the number of correct answers (raw scores from the previous page) for each of the modules in the boxes below and add them together to get your section raw score. Find that section raw score in the first column of the table below and then enter the corresponding lower and upper values in the two-column boxes. Add each of your lower and upper values for the test sections separately to calculate your total PSAT 8/9 score range.

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Raw Score Conversion Table: Section Scores | | | RAW SCORE Reading and Writing
Section Score Range Math
Section Score Range (\# OF CORRECT ANSWERS) LOWER UPPER LOWER UPPER 0 120 120 120 120 1 120 140 120 140 2 120 160 120 180 3 120 180 120 210 4 120 200 120 220 5 120 210 140 240 6 120 220 150 250 7 130 230 180 260 8 140 240 190 270 9 150 250 230 290 10 160 260 260 300 11 170 270 270 310 12 180 280 280 320 13 190 290 290 330 14 200 300 300 340 15 210 310 300 340 16 250 330 310 350 17 270 330 310 350 18 280 340 320 360 19 300 340 330 370 20 310 350 330 370 21 320 360 340 380 22 320 360 340 380 23 330 370 340 380 24 340 380 350 390 25 340 380 350 390 26 350 390 360 400 27 350 390 370 410 28 360 400 380 420 29 360 400 380 420 30 370 410 390 430 31 370 410 400 440 32 380 420 410 450 33 390 430 420 460 | RAW SCORE Reading and Writing
Section Score Range Math
Section Score Range (\# OF CORRECT ANSWERS) LOWER UPPER LOWER UPPER 34 390 430 430 470 35 400 440 440 480 36 410 450 450 510 37 410 450 460 520 38 420 460 470 530 39 430 470 490 550 40 430 470 500 560 41 440 480 510 570 42 450 490 530 590 43 450 490 540 600 44 460 500 560 620 45 470 510 570 630 46 480 520 580 660 47 480 520 600 680 48 490 530 620 680 49 500 540 640 700 50 510 550 660 700 51 520 560 680 710 52 520 580 680 720 53 530 590 690 720 54 540 600 690 720 55 550 610 56 560 660 57 570 630 58 590 650 59 600 660 60 620 680 61 630 690 62 650 710 63 670 710 64 690 720 65 710 720 66 700 720 | | © 2023 College Board. 2324-P89-773 5 | | Get Section and Total Scores Section and total scores for the paper version of this digital PSAT 8/9 practice test are expressed as ranges. That’s because the scoring method described in this guide is a simplified (and therefore slightly less precise) version of the one used in the actual test. To ob

FAQs

What is needed to score the PSAT 8/9 practice test on paper?

You need the conversion tables and the answer key located at the end of the guide, along with your completed practice test.

How do you calculate your Reading and Writing raw score?

Use the answer key to find the number correct in modules 1 and 2, then add those counts together to get the Reading and Writing raw score.

How are scaled section scores and the total score range determined?

Use the raw score conversion table to find the lower and upper scaled values for each section, then add lower values together and upper values together to produce the total score range.

Aug 29, 2026

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