Congratulations to all those sophomores and juniors who took the PSAT in school yesterday. I hope you did well.
Good luck to all those who are taking the PSAT on Saturday. If you haven’t prepped at all, please know that there’s still time. You may want to quickly sign up for ePrep’s free SAT trial. At a minumum, it will give you a sense for what to expect on Saturday.
PSAT scores should be ready sometime during the first half of December. Again, good luck.
The College Board recently announced plans to administer a PSAT for eighth-grade students starting in 2010. The test would be administered with the hope of identifying talented students before they begin high school. Some critics say there’s already too much pressure on kids to do well on standardized tests. Read the Los Angeles Times article by Gale Holland and decide for yourself.
After graduating from college back in 1990, I spent a few months in Germany playing soccer and working part-time in my uncle’s bakery. It was a great time to be in Germany. The Berlin Wall was coming down and Germany’s national soccer team won the coveted FIFA World Cup. Anyway, my uncle is one of the nicest and most generous people I have ever met. That’s why I was surprised to learn that he made his own employees pay full price for baked goods from his own store . . . even the goods that were left unsold at the close of business. (more…)
Within the next ten days, juniors will be getting their 2007 PSAT scores back. Some students and their parents will be sorely disappointed. Trust me; it happens every year. They will be completely dumbfounded. How can a student with a GPA (grade point average) above 3.5, score below the 70th percentile on the PSAT? It just doesn’t make sense.
Parent Response Options: (1) my child is simply not a good standardized test-taker, and there is nothing we can do about it; (2) the SAT is a flawed test, and my child is perfect; once colleges discover these truths, they will disregard his/her scores completely; (3) my child should definitely take the ACT; I heard that it’s easier and that it doesn’t require preparation; (4) preparing for the SAT the “right” way will be challenging, but ulitmately rewarding.
My thoughts on the parent response options above are briefly as follows: (more…)
Question 21 from the writing skills section of the Saturday form of the 2007 PSAT/NMSQT was removed from scoring. Seems there was a printing error that affected the test books. Apparently several letters of a word appearing in one of the answer choices for Question 21 did not print properly, so The College Board decided to not score question 21 for all test takers. (more…)
Last week was PSAT week for high school juniors and seniors across the nation. Students - did you stress over this test or did you take this event in stride? Did you feel prepared or did you feel blindsided? Take our poll and let us know!
Just a little FYI here. The actual name of the PSAT is PSAT/NMSQT - The Preliminary SAT®/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. When you take the PSAT in your junior year of high school, you are also entered into the running for a scholarship (more…)
We worked all weekend and pushed ePrep’s new ePrep for the PSAT out into cyberspace last night. Click here to register for free! We hope you’ll agree it was worth the effort on our part and the wait on yours! As promised, we’re giving free access to the PSAT course (normally $249) now through the October 20th PSAT test date. Simply click the “Register” button, download your two (2) full-length practice exams, and ePrep your way to a higher test score. Our course includes online videos with detailed answer explanations for every test question.
Help us spread the word! Please be sure to tell your high school - including teachers, guidance counselors, and PTAs - about ePrep’s free access PSAT course.
