You may also wish to take advantage of the redesigned practice PSAT found HERE.
The Kaplan Content and Curriculum Team has read and analyzed the new exam - here are some of our observations:
- There is lots of reading on this exam, across both the Evidence-Based Reading & Writing and Math sections.
- The 60 minute Evidence-Based Reading Test, comprised of 4 long passages and 1 paired passage with 47 questions, will challenge students’ stamina and focus.
- 80% of the Evidence-Based Reading Test is made up of passages from Science and Social Studies/History, and will require a substantial amount of returning to the passage to locate specific details and textual evidence.
- Math questions appear, generally, in order of difficulty from Easy to Medium to Hard.
- Math questions involve a lot of reading and focus on real-world contexts, such as identifying the function that represents the cost of an online gaming service, and analyzing a chart displaying data on summer employment of teenagers.
- Although the College Board indicated that trig would only be on the SAT, a very basic trigonometry question was introduced on the Math section of the PSAT Practice Test.
