PSAT

The PSAT will be administered to all students in cohort 2027 (grade 11) on Wednesday, October 8th. If you are not a part of cohort 2027, you will go to your B day classes.

Why should I care about the PSAT?

Many colleges and scholarship organizations require applicants to take the Scholastic Aptitude Test, also known as the  SAT.  The Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test (PSAT) is a practice test for the SAT test. The PSAT helps you become familiar with the SAT format, provides a score report that shows how you compare to over 2 million other high school students, and lets you know what you need to study before the SAT. Additionally, the PSAT results are used to find students who may be eligible for college scholarships. 

Testing Schedule

Testing begins in the morning. Report to your testing location by 7:20. You will test until 10:55. 

Testing Locations

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VoTech and ATC Kids

If you typically go to ATC or VoTech in the morning, you will report to Green Run in the morning to take the PSAT.

If you typically to ATC or VoTech in the afternoon, you will eat lunch and remain at Green Run. You will report to the library for study block. 

What's on the test

There will be two reading and writing sections, and two math sections. 

What the Reading and Writing Section Is Like

The Reading and Writing section of the PSAT/NMSQT is designed to measure your success with building critical college and career readiness in literacy. In this section, you’ll answer multiple-choice questions requiring you to read, comprehend, and use information and ideas in texts; analyze the craft and structure of texts; revise texts to improve the rhetorical expression of ideas; and edit texts to follow core conventions of Standard English.

Passages in this section, which serve as the basis for answering test questions, represent the subject areas of literature, history/social studies, the humanities, and science. There is a single question per passage.

Select questions in this section are accompanied by an informational graphic.

Reading and Writing Section Overview

• There are two reading/writing modules.

• Each module is timed for 32 minutes

• You will have approximately 1 minute to answer each question

Questions in the Reading and Writing section represent 1 of 4 content domains, shown in the table that follows. To help you budget your time, questions that test similar skills and knowledge are grouped together and arranged from easiest to hardest.