🏅PSAT/NMSQT®

The PSAT's biggest math domain: 13 to 15 questions on linear equations, functions, systems and inequalities, every one of them drawn before it is solved.

Fluently Solving a Linear Equation in One Variable · Using Structure Instead of Grinding · Building a One-Variable Equation from a Story · Using the Equation to Answer What Was Actually Asked · +36 more

About 32.5 percent of PSAT math: quadratics, exponentials and polynomials, plus the one form of each expression that makes it give up its secret.

Seeing Structure in an Expression · Adding and Subtracting Polynomials · Multiplying Polynomials · Factoring Out a Common Factor · +34 more

The PSAT's biggest data domain: units and percents, distributions, models and probability, plus the two data skills that live only on the SAT.

How Big the Data Domain Is on the PSAT · Ratios, Rates, and Unit Rates · Scale Drawings and Proportions in Science · Derived Units from Products and Quotients · +26 more

Area, volume, angles, similarity and right-triangle trig at PSAT scope, where the whole circles testing point, radians and the unit circle are gone.

Area and Perimeter of Plane Figures · Composite Figures and Shaded Regions · Surface Area and Volume of Solids · The Scale Factor Rule: k, k Squared, and k Cubed · +15 more

The biggest domain on the section and the one that opens every module: words on a dial, outlines that build, and two arguments mapped side by side.

Words in Context: The Fill-in-the-Blank Item · The Most Nearly Means Item · Predicting Your Own Word First · Contrast Signals That Reverse a Blank · +17 more

Main ideas as nested circles, evidence as a line that holds or snaps, graphs read against a claim, and inferences drawn exactly one step past the facts.

Finding the Central Idea of a Short Text · When the First Sentence Is a Decoy · Central Idea vs. Supporting Detail · Too Narrow, Too Broad, and Imported from Outside · +18 more

Where one sentence has to stop and the next has to start, drawn as blocks with joints: run-ons, splices, fragments, and the four repairs that all work.

What Counts as a Complete Sentence · End Marks: Period, Question Mark, Exclamation Point · The Semicolon as a Full Stop · The Comma Splice · +5 more

Commas, semicolons, colons, dashes and parentheses as joints inside one sentence, including the frequent correct answer of no punctuation at all.

The Comma Plus a Coordinating Conjunction · Commas in a Simple Series · The Semicolon in a Complex Series · What Must Come Before a Colon · +8 more

Subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement, animated as the two words lighting up and connecting while everything parked between them greys out.

Finding the Real Subject · The Prepositional Phrase Between Subject and Verb · Inverted Sentences and There Is versus There Are · Compound Subjects Joined by And · +7 more

Verb finiteness and verb tense and aspect, drawn as a timeline where each clause pins its event and a verbal pins nothing at all.

Finite Verbs versus Verbals · The Sentence With No Main Verb at All · Gerunds, Participles, and Infinitives · Having Mapped versus Mapped · +6 more

Modifier placement as a hook that latches onto the nearest noun, and the apostrophe as the mark that decides how many owners a sentence has.

The Introductory Participial Phrase · Dangling Modifiers · Misplaced Only and the Other Limiting Words · Misplaced Phrases and Clauses · +8 more

The notes-based questions, drawn as cards on a table and a target: the stated goal is the entire scoring rule, and every choice is already grammatical.

How a Notes Question Is Built · The Stated Goal Is the Whole Criterion · Reading the Goal Before the Notes · Goal: Emphasize a Similarity · +7 more

Two claim-boxes and one arrow whose direction is decided by what the boxes contain, family by family, including the pairs students reliably swap.

Naming the Relationship Before You Look at the Choices · Same Direction or Opposite Direction First · Reading Both Sides of the Blank · Addition Transitions · +8 more

Where the grammar block sits, how to read the choices before the sentence, which old rules the digital test retired, and why this block is worth double.

Where the Grammar Block Sits in a Module · The Difficulty Ramp Inside the Grammar Block · Reading the Choices to Find the Rule · Why Sounding Right Is Not a Rule · +2 more

The one number the SAT has no version of, why Reading and Writing counts twice inside it, and how that single fact rewrites a study plan.

The Selection Index and Its 48 to 228 Scale · Why Reading and Writing Is Double-Weighted · Computing Your Index From a Score Report · Why the Index Is Not the Total Score · +3 more

One October morning in eleventh grade, 1.3 million entrants narrowing to 7,500 scholarships, and a qualifying line that moves with your zip code.

Only the Junior-Year October Test Counts · The Program Entry Questions and the Asterisk · The Funnel: 1.3 Million Down to 7,500 · The National Commended Cutoff · +4 more

Two adaptive sections in 2 hours 14, a 320 to 1520 scale sharing one ruler with the SAT, and a math blueprint that is a strict subset of it.

The Shape of the Test: 98 Questions in 2 Hours 14 · The Multistage Adaptive Design · The 320 to 1520 Scale and the SAT's 400 to 1600 · The Grade-Level Benchmarks · +5 more