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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PSAT/NMSQT/NMS is a lottery scam, with a regulatory capture mixin, right?

Collect $100 for every student, and give out a few $2500 scholarships. [/quote]

For many the scholarship offer turns out not to be useful. You have to designate a recipient school prior to getting final acceptances.  This means you either have to designate a school you’re pretty sure you’ll get into and forgo a place at a better but riskier school that you’ll go to if you get in or you have to designate the risky school and if you don’t get into that, then there’s no scholarship.

The money and time is not worth it unless you are already close to the cutoff and don’t have to do a lot of extra prep for the PSAT.

I’d prefer to see kids money and time go to SAT prep and I’d prefer to see kids do SAT prep at the end of their sophomore summer/start of jr. fall.  The idea that a student should take PSAT as a junior and use that to prep for SAT pushes prep into the school year when kids are busy with sports and homework and SAT gets pushed into spring of junior year when many advanced students are also taking APs or IB exams.

You can pull practice PSATs to take and score for free on Kahn Academy any time. KA used to have a function where you could enter this data and get prep recs. Not sure if you can still do this independently of the real PSAT results (haven’t looked lately). [/quote]

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