National Merit Qualifying Scores 2024. This guide will fill you in on all qualifying cutoff scores from coast to coast (plus alaska and. Each year about 1.6 million juniors take the preliminary sat/national merit scholarship qualifying test (psat/nmsqt) in the hopes of qualifying for the national merit scholarship program.

The preliminary sat/national merit scholarship qualifying test (psat/nmsqt ®) selection index score is calculated using a student’s section scores and the following formula (doubling. Below are the semifinalist cutoffs for the 15 years from the class of 2008 to the class of 2024.