PSAT - pros and cons

Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Any feedback about the test itself? Aside from tech glitches


Mine found a typo in one of the English questions, something about a misplaced comma that made all the answers grammatically incorrect. They found the rest painfully boring and ridiculously easy, to the point where they needed to triple-check there wasn't some sort of trick involved (there wasn't).

But they did run across a couple of math problems that tripped them up, in spite of taking a refresher course over the summer. The problems looked familiar, and seemed like they should be simple enough, but somehow the logical approaches just didn't work as expected.

All of which sounds exactly on brand for my kid.

Surprisingly, even though they've always strongly preferred paper-and-pencil tests, they didn't mind the new digital interface. There were no technical glitches once the proctor was logged in, and they found it pretty easy to work in the digital environment.


Sorry, that should read "logically incorrect."
Anonymous
DD said there were questions about parabolas and its vertex. I thought algebra II wasn’t on the PSAT, so that was a surprise.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:


Mine found a typo in one of the English questions, something about a misplaced comma that made all the answers grammatically incorrect. They found the rest painfully boring and ridiculously easy, to the point where they needed to triple-check there wasn't some sort of trick involved (there wasn't).

But they did run across a couple of math problems that tripped them up, in spite of taking a refresher course over the summer.


People take classes to study for the PSAT now?
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:


Mine found a typo in one of the English questions, something about a misplaced comma that made all the answers grammatically incorrect. They found the rest painfully boring and ridiculously easy, to the point where they needed to triple-check there wasn't some sort of trick involved (there wasn't).

But they did run across a couple of math problems that tripped them up, in spite of taking a refresher course over the summer.


People take classes to study for the PSAT now?


It was an SAT prep class.
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