General Information
The day you will take the PSAT.
What is Wednesday?
A popular strategy when faced with a challenging question that the students doesn't know the answer to.
What is skipping it and coming back?
These are placed around the direct words copied from a source.
What are quotation marks?
The difference between "its" and "it's."
What is that "it's" is short for "it is," whereas "its" is used all other times.
What is two?
What time the PSAT starts.
What is 7:40 a.m.?
A common strategy to help a tester narrow in their final answer through excluding answers that they know are not correct.
What is process of elimination?
When to use a comma with a coordinating conjunction (for, and, nor, but, or).
What is connecting two complete sentences?
An example of a transition that provides contrast between two points.
What is however, but, despite this, etc.?
The senior class that Mrs. Yates is teaching this year.
What is Creative Writing?
What time the PSAT ends and you get to go home.
What is 11:00 a.m.?
When selecting between a simple and ornate word choice, PSAT testers are advised to select this.
What is a simple word choice?
This type of punctuation is used to join two complete sentences that are related to one another.
What is a semicolon?
The correction that would need to be made to the following sentence for it to be grammatically correct.
The research conducted by the scientists it was not available to the public.
What is eliminating the word "it"?
What is Mythology?
The two sections on the PSAT.
What are Reading & Writing + Math?
A common strategy to help save time is to read this before reading a passage on the reading section.
What is reading the questions first? / What are questions?
This type of punctuation is used to connect a complete sentence to some type of explanation. This explanation may or may not be a complete sentence.
What is a colon?
The correction that would need to be made to the following sentence for it to be grammatically correct.
Despite her checkered past, Gloria wanted no involvement in Hansen's schemes, she only wanted enough money to provide for her family.
What is changing the comma to a period or colon?
Mrs. Yates' dream career when she was your age.
What is engineering?
The amount of time designated for the ELA portion of the PSAT.
What is 64 minutes?
The PSAT values formal, direct (concise) language, so tests are often advised to chose this type of answer.
What is the shortest, most clear answer?
When using this type of transition, a semicolon and comma are used in tandem.
What are trifectas (however, consequently, etc.)?
The 3 corrections that would need to be made to the following sentence for it to be grammatically correct.
Tardigrades incredible bacteria that can survive in extreme temperatures is known to thrive in volcanos, hot springs, sandy deserts, Antarctic ice, and more.
What is adding punctuation around the noun-renamer phrase and fixing the subject-verb agreement?
The three languages that Mrs. Yates took classes in during college.
What are English, Spanish, and Mandarin?