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How long does the PSAT/NMSQT take to complete?
A) 1 hour and 45 minutes
B) 2 hours
C) 2 hours and 14 minutes
D) 3 hours
C) 2 hours and 14 minutes
The Reading and Writing section contains this many questions total.
A) 44
B) 54
C) 64
D) 98
What is B) 54
Students can use this tool on the entire Math section of the PSAT/NMSQT.
A) Scratch paper only
B) Formula Sheet
C) Reference Guide
D) Calculator
What is D) Calculator?
The total score range for the PSAT/NMSQT is this.
A) 400-1600
B) 320-1520
C) 240-1440
D) 200-800
What is B) 320 - 1520
he NMSC Selection Index score range is this.
A) 320-1520
B) 160-760
C) 48-228
D) 24-240
What is C) 48 - 228
The PSAT/NMSQT consists of these two main sections.
What are Reading and Writing and Mathematics
These are the four content domains measured in the Reading and Writing section.
What are Information and Ideas, Craft and Structure, Standard English Conventions, and Expression of Ideas?
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These are the four content domains measured in the Math section.
What are Algebra, Advanced Math, Problem-Solving and Data Analysis, and Geometry and Trigonometry?
These are the grade-level benchmarks for Reading and Writing and Math for 11th graders.
What are 460 for Reading and Writing, and 510 for Math?
To calculate the NMSC Selection Index score, you perform this mathematical operation using the Reading and Writing score and Math score.
What is double the Reading and Writing score, add the Math score, then divide by 10?
The testing methodology allows the PSAT/NMSQT to adapt the difficulty of questions based on student performance.
A) Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT).
B) Multiple Adaptive Testing (MST).
C) Linear Testing
D) Random Question Selection
What is Multistage Adaptive Testing
This domain focuses on understanding high-utility words, evaluating text structure and purpose, and making connections between related texts.
A) Information and Ideas
B) Expression of Ideas
C) Craft and Structure
D) Standard English Conventions
What is C) Craft and Structure
Approximately this percentage of Math questions are set in real-world contexts.
A) 30%
B) 40%
C) 50%
D) 60%
What is A) 30%
A student's ability is better represented by this rather than single-point scores.
A) Percentile rankings
B) Raw Scores
C) Score ranges
D) Scale scores
What is C) Score ranges
Approximately this many test takers meet requirements to enter the NMSC competition each year.
A) 50,000
B) 500,000
C) 1.3 million
D) 2.5 million
What is C) 1.3 million
In the adaptive testing formate, this happens to the second module of questions based on how a student performs on the first module.
What is the second module that becomes either more difficult or less difficult?
The Reading and Writing section passages represent these four subject areas that serve as the basis for test questions.
What are literature, history/social studies, the humanities, and science?
The Advanced Math domain includes questions about these types of equations and functions that are central for progression to more advanced math courses.
What are absolute value, quadratic, exponential, polynomial, rational, radical, and other nonlinear equations?
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The common score scale across the SAT Suite means that a score of 500 on the PSAT/NMSQT represents this relationship to the same score on other SAT Suite assessments.
What is the same level of academic achievement across all assessments in the SAT Suite?
Of the 1.3 million NMSC Program entrants, approximately this many will earn PSAT/NMSQT scores high enough to qualify for recognition.
What is about 50,000 students?
The PSAT/NMSQT gives students approximately this amount of time per question in the Reading and Writing section and this amount of time per question in the Math section.
What is 1 minute and 11 seconds per question for Reading and Writing, and 1 minute and 35 seconds per question for Math?
This domain measures the ability to revise texts to improve the effectiveness of written expression and to meet specific rhetorical goals, while another domain measures the ability to edit text to conform to core conventions of Standard English sentence structure, usage, and punctuation.
What are Expression of Ideas and Standard English Conventions?
These specific topic areas are covered within the Geometry and Trigonometry domain, representing 15% of the Math section.
What are area and volume, lines, angles, and triangles, right triangles and trigonometry, and circles?
All Tester Percentiles are based on the actual scores of students from this specific time period and grade levels who took the PSAT/NMSQT.
What are the past 3 cohorts of students who took the PSAT/NMSQT in 10th or 11th grade?
The National Merit Scholarship Corporation is this type of organization that operates in this manner, and conducts this specific program as an annual academic competition.
What is an independent, not-for-profit organization that operates without government assistance and conducts the National Merit Scholarship Program?