PSAT

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PSAT
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PSAT

• Preliminary SAT
• National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test

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Why take the PSAT?

• Personalized feedback about areas of strengths
  and weaknesses for college success.
• Preparation for SAT.
• National Merit
• Use for comparison
• Source for college information
• PSATEXTRAS, MYROAD

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When is the test?

• Saturday, October 20th
• Check in at 715
• Bring Picture ID, Two 2 pencils Calculator

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Who takes the PSAT?

• Juniors
• Sophomores--practice

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How do you register?

• Registration Oct. 5th to 12th
• October 15th price goes up to 25
• Booklet

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What is on the PSAT?

• Critical Readingsentence completion and
  passage-based reading
• Mathnumber and operations, algebra and function,
  geometry and measurement, data analysis,
  statistics, and probability
• Writing Skillsimproving sentences, identifying
  sentence errors and improving paragraphs

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New Resources for Students

• PSAT EXTRA
• Explanation to all questions
• Practice materials
• My Road- Personality Test
• Careers and majors
• College search
• Online portfolio

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Questions