Students in grades 9, 10 and 11 should mark their calendars now for Oct. 12 for the PSAT/NMSQT, an early measure of academic preparedness for college.
In Wicomico County high schools, the PSAT/NMSQT will be administered on Wednesday, Oct. 12 for ALL students in grade 10. The school system will pay the exam cost for all 10th-graders as well as all ninth- and 11th-graders who sign up for the exam through the guidance office.
The PSAT/NMSQT serves as an excellent preparation tool for the SAT, provides an evaluation of students’ academic skills, aids in college and career planning, and serves as a qualifying test for the National Merit Scholarship Corp. program, through which students can receive scholarships and recognition.
The PSAT/NMSQT focuses on three critically important skills: critical reading, mathematics, and writing skills. The PSAT/NMSQT contains the same type of questions as the SAT, except the PSAT/NMSQT does not include essays. The test will take approximately two hours and 10 minutes to complete. Students have prepared for the PSAT/NMSQT through their courses, and will be briefed on the upcoming exam by their teachers.
For additional information about the Oct. 12 administration of the PSAT/NMSQT administration in Wicomico County Public Schools, please check with the school guidance office or review online resources posted here: http://www.wcboe.org/boe/parents.php.
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1 comment:
Our students take no national standardized tests of achievement for their entire time in school until tests like this one and AP tests. They only take basic functional tests prepared just for the state of Maryland to test for minimal competencies. Even before there were budget issues, we stopped wanting to know anything more than who can do the simplest things. You think the gap between students is bad on functional tests, it's really wide when top students can show how far above grade level they are. We never want to know that.
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