The Preliminary SAT is a three-hour practice version of the SAT and a National Merit Qualifying Test. The purpose of the PSAT is to prepare for the SAT, but there’s also an incentive for doing well on ...

Every October, in classrooms and cafeterias all across the country, high school juniors and precocious sophomores gather to take the PSAT. Short for “preliminary SAT,” the PSAT is an abbreviated ...

The Preliminary SAT is a three-hour practice version of the SAT and a National Merit Qualifying Test. The purpose of the PSAT is to prepare for the SAT, but there’s also an incentive for doing well on ...