2026 PSAT Scores: Released Oct. 22 and Nov. 5, Last Batch Nov. 12

College Board scheduled Fall 2026 Preliminary SAT (PSAT) and National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (NMSQT) scores for students on Thursday, Oct. 22, Thursday, Nov. 5 or Thursday, Nov. 12, 2026, according to its score release table for in-school testing. Which date was yours depended on when your school submitted its tests. All three dates have now passed; educators’ electronic score reports for the last wave are due Wednesday, Nov. 18.

Which PSAT score date is mine?

Testing for the fall 2026 PSAT/NMSQT ran from Oct. 1 to Oct. 30, 2026, College Board says, and schools set their own test day within that window. The score date follows the day your school submitted its answer sheets. College Board publishes one table for SAT School Day, PSAT/NMSQT, PSAT 10 and PSAT 8/9 together.

School submitted tests by	K-12 reporting portal (schools)	Scores to students	Electronic score reports for educators
Fri., Oct. 9, 2026	Tue., Oct. 20	Thu., Oct. 22	Wed., Oct. 28
Fri., Oct. 23, 2026	Tue., Nov. 3	Thu., Nov. 5	Wed., Nov. 11
Fri., Oct. 30, 2026	Tue., Nov. 10	Thu., Nov. 12	Wed., Nov. 18

The weekdays are our addition; College Board lists the dates without them. If you are unsure which row applied to your school, ask your counselor when the school submitted its tests. A student whose school submitted by Oct. 23 was due scores on Nov. 5, and one whose school submitted by Oct. 30 on Nov. 12. A separate College Board page says scores are typically available online 2-4 weeks after the test administration.

How do students see PSAT scores?

According to College Board’s PSAT/NMSQT guide for students and families (Fall 2026), U.S. students who took the PSAT/NMSQT and gave a mobile phone number during testing can view their scores in the BigFuture School app. Students age 13 and older may also use a personal College Board student account to view additional insights online. Schools receive a PDF score report titled “Your Score Report.”

How is the PSAT/NMSQT scored?

The same College Board guide sets these ranges:

Score	Range
Total score (two sections added)	320 to 1520
Reading and Writing (RW) section	160 to 760
Math section	160 to 760
National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) Selection Index	48 to 228

College Board’s benchmarks are a Reading and Writing score of 430 and a Math score of 480 for 10th grade, and 460 and 510 for 11th grade.

How do you work out the Selection Index?

The guide’s rule is to double the Reading and Writing section score, add the Math section score, and divide the sum by 10. The formula reads 2RW + M, divided by 10. College Board’s own example is a Reading and Writing score of 620 and a Math score of 500, which gives 174. We ran the same formula on a few more score pairs.

Reading and Writing	Math	Total score	Selection Index
160	160	320	48
550	550	1100	165
620	500	1120	174
650	600	1250	190
700	700	1400	210
760	760	1520	228

The first and last rows match the lowest and highest Selection Index values College Board lists. Because Reading and Writing counts twice, a 10-point gain there moves the index by 2 points and the same gain in Math moves it by 1.

What happens with National Merit?

College Board says about 1.3 million test takers meet the entry requirements each year, and about 50,000 will earn 2026 PSAT/NMSQT scores high enough to qualify for recognition. Those students will be notified of their standing through their high schools in September 2027. Entry for scholarships offered in 2028 is determined by responses on the 2026 PSAT/NMSQT. We did not use selection cutoffs because they are not part of the College Board sources for this story.

Printable timeline and next test dates

Print the one-page timeline below to keep the three score dates and the September 2027 notice in one place. The November 2026 printable calendar shows where Nov. 5 and Nov. 12 fell, in the weeks before the Thanksgiving holiday on Nov. 26. School break dates are in our Thanksgiving break guide for school districts.

Planning the next exams? See the SAT and ACT test dates for 2026-27 and the AP exam schedule for 2027. Our SAT November 7 test-day checklist covers what to bring.