If you’re planning to apply to universities or colleges in the US, you probably have heard of the SAT and/or ACT, which most institutions require for undergraduate admissions. For those who are preparing early for a post-secondary education States side, you should also be planning to take the PSAT (Preliminary SAT), also referred to as the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (NMSQT). US-bound high school students in Grade 10 and 11 normally sit for this standardized test in October at their high schools to gain preliminary skills practice in critical reading, math reasoning and writing, which are tested at a higher level in the SAT or ACT. The PSAT/NMSQT can be taken at a participating high school in your area on Wednesday, October 16, 2013 or Saturday, October 19, 2013.
An overview of the PSAT, a 2 hours and 10 minutes test with five sections, is as follows:
• The two critical reading sections (25 minutes each) test your ability to complete sentences and respond to questions that directly relate to reading passages;
• Two sections in PSAT math (25 minutes each) focus on solving problems through multiple choice and student-produced responses on topics in Numbers and Operation, Algebra and Functions, Geometry and Measurement, Data Analysis, and Statistics and Probability.
• One 30-minute multiple-choice writing skills section tests the student’s knowledge of effective writing and grammatical structure and language usage with questions that ask the test-taker to identify sentence errors, and improve sentences and paragraphs.
For more details on the PSAT in October, 2013, please go to:
http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/psat/about.html
The preparation for the PSAT begins in the summer! Join one of our SAT/ACT Boot Camp weeks, or come to our PSAT Prep workshops and practice test sessions in early Fall 2013. For more information, please contact us by phone at 604-922-8456 or email at westvan@options-wp.chhdev.com
