What Your PSAT Scores
Mean
What Your PSAT
Scores Mean
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PSAT Score
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SAT Test
Changes and
ACT Updates
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Test Changes Timeline
PSAT
Scores
Back
SAT:
Last
Current
Test
SAT:
New Test
Launches
ACT Test
Date
Jan2016
1st New
SAT
Scores
Back
Feb2016
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ACT Test
Date
Mar2016
Apr2016
May2016
PSAT Score Return Timeline
Scores Delivered
Electronically to
Counselors in Early
January
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Students Receive
Electronic Access to
Scores the Next Day
Hard Copies of Scores
Mailed to Schools
(Expected Delivery
Late January)
PSAT Score Report Highlights
Old PSAT
New PSAT
Length
1 Page
4 Pages
Your Scores
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 Includes Cross-Test and
Subscores
Your Skills
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 With Additional Detail
Your Answers
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Next Steps and
Additional
Features
My College QuickStart
Recommendations
My Road + Big Future
AP Potential
Hard Copy Score
Reports
2 Copies Mailed to Schools
1 Copy Mailed to Schools
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New PSAT Score Report
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Your Scores
Your Scores
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Your Scores (cont.)
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National Merit
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Next Steps
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PSAT & New SAT Scoring
SAT: 400-1600
PSAT/NMSQT: 320-1520
300
600
900
1200
Composite Score Range
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1500
Why the PSAT/NMSQT Matters
Excellent practice for the New SAT
Connect students to schools & scholarships
National Merit Scholarships and more
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Kaplan PSAT Student Survey Results
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New SAT Overview
Category
Timing
Features
3 hours, 50 minutes
• Now scored on a scale of 1600
Scoring
 Evidence-Based Reading & Writing
 Math
• New optional Essay scored separately
• No guessing penalty
• 4 answer choices
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New SAT Overview
Category
Features
• Reading and Writing combined
• Reading details:
Evidencebased
Reading &
Writing Section
 No sentence completions
 Passage topics include US and World Literature,
History/Social Studies, and Sciences (500 - 750
words)
 65 minutes
• Writing and Language details:
 Focus on extended prose (400 - 500 words)
 35 minutes
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PSAT Sample Problem - Reading
PSAT Sample Problem - Reading
New SAT Overview
Category
Features
• Three areas of concentrated focus:
Math
Section
 Problem solving and data analysis
 “The Heart of Algebra”
 “Passport to Advanced Math”
• Math fluency emphasized
 25 minutes without a Calculator
 55 minutes with a Calculator
• Multi-part questions
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Rigor & The New SAT
CURRENT SAT MATH
The percent increase from 6 to 16 is
equal to the percent increase from
12 to what number?
(A) 16
(B) 22
(C) 23
Word Count = 18
(D) 32
(E) 36
NEW SAT MATH
According to the Project on Student Debt
prepared by The Institute for College Access and
Success, 7 out of 10 students graduating in 2012
from a four-year college in the United States had
student loan debt. The average amount borrowed
per student was $29,400, which is up from
$18,750 in 2004. If student debt experiences the
same total percent increase over the next eight
years, approximately how much will a college
student graduating in 2020 owe, assuming she
takes out student loans to pay for her education?
A)$40,100
B)$44,300
C) $46,100
D) $48,200
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Word Count = 87
New SAT Overview
Category
Essay
Features
• Essay is optional
• 50 minutes
• Requires students to analyze a 650-750
word document and explain how the author
builds an argument
• 3 Scores (2-8)
 Reading
 Analysis
 Writing
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13%* of Colleges Will Require
the New SAT Essay
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Anderson University (IN)
California Institute of Technology
Claremont McKenna College
College of Southern Nevada
Dartmouth College
Duke University
Emory University
Harvard College
Howard University
Marlboro College (VT)
Pennsylvania College of Technology
Prince George’s Community College
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Princeton University
Rice University
Stanford University
Texas A&M University
University of California Schools
University of South Florida
University of St. Andrews (UK)
University of Texas at Austin
Yale University
Updated ACT Overview
Category
Features
Scoring
• No changes to 1-36 scoring
Math
• More probability & statistics
Reading
• New paired passages
Essay
• Requires analysis of 3 different perspectives
• 40 minutes long
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Current SAT
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New SAT
ACT
Literature
SS/History
Humanities
Sciences
Careers
Literature
SS/History
Humanities
Sciences
Literature
SS/History
Humanities
Sciences
Reading Passage Topics
Current SAT
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New SAT
ACT
Evidence-based
Words in Context
Reading Comprehension
Evidence-based
Words in Context
Reading Comprehension
SAT Words
Words in Context
Reading Comprehension
Reading Skills Tested
Current SAT
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New SAT
Trig
Trig
Geometry
Data Analysis/Problem Solving
Algebra
Geometry
Data Analysis/Problem Solving
Algebra
Number & Operations
Geometry
Data Analysis/Problem Solving
Algebra
Math Skills Tested
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