The Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, or PSAT, is administered to high school sophomores and juniors in October each year. In 2018, students will take the nearly three-hour ...

Which PSAT prep book is best? No one likes taking tests, especially tests as difficult and important as the Preliminary SAT (PSAT) exam. A good PSAT prep book not only gets students ready for the test ...

For many high school students, the PSAT/NMSQT® is more than practice for the SAT® or ACT® — it’s the first meaningful step on their path to college, as a high PSAT score can attract notice from ...

Kaplan Test Prep has announced a new, free online preparation course for the PSAT, adding another such service to an expanding field of test-prep offerings aimed at lower-income students. Officials of ...

It’s that time of year: the high school class of 2015 is now receiving college decision letters. At the same time, current high school freshmen and sophomores will face a revised version of the ...

A story in the Oct. 17 edition of the Extra incorrectly stated that students at Montgomery County public high schools took a practice Preliminary SAT on Oct. 15. In fact, most county students took the ...

The Preliminary SAT is a three-hour practice version of the SAT and a National Merit Qualifying Test. The purpose of the PSAT is to prepare for the SAT, but there’s also an incentive for doing well on ...

Although the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) does not determine whether you can go to college, the exam can be an important step toward higher education. The ...