States with the highest numbers of paper checks include California, New York, Texas, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and North Carolina. There may be a little wiggle room, but Social Security would like people to willingly give up those paper checks.
Remember that the new PSAT is scored between 320 and 1520, which is a composite of the Math section and the Reading and Writing sections together. To score in the 70th percentile or above, you want to aim for at least a 490 in Reading and Writing and a 500 in Math (or a composite of 990).
PCAT score ranges between 200 and 600 for multiple-choice sections. The mean score usually lies between 340 and 460. The score report also mentions percentiles that make it possible to compare the performance of students in the test. The writing score is scored on a scale of 0 to 5.0.