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).
The PSAT scores range from 160-760 each in EBRW (Evidence-Based Reading and Writing, the verbal sections) and Math (both the calculator and non-calculator sections) so the highest score a student can earn on the PSAT is a 1520 and the lowest is a 320, whereas on the SAT, the combined score ranges from 400-1600.