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Castleberry High School

2015 PSAT Boot Camp

General Changes

Old PSAT

Redesigned PSAT

  • 3 Parts: Evidence-Based Reading, Writing, Math
  • 1-38 scale for each section
  • Converts into two scores of 760
  • 4 answer choices
  • 3 Scores: Critical Reading, Math, Writing
  • 20-80 scale for each section
  • Converts into 200-800 on SAT
  • 5 answer choices (guessing penalty)

Score Predictions (# right)

Math

Reading

Writing

40

39

42

National Merit Semifinalist

34

37

36

National Merit Commended

Writing

Reading

Math

NC-25 minutes/17 questions

35 minutes/44 questions

60 minutes/47 questions

C-45 minutes/31 questions

Old PSAT

Redesigned PSAT

Old PSAT

Redesigned PSAT

  • Sentence Completion (Vocabulary)
  • Passage-based Reading Comprehension
  • Calculator on all sections
  • 10 grid-ins
  • Covers up to Algebra II
  • Organized easy to difficult
  • More familiar vocabulary in context
  • Passage-based Reading Comprehension
  • Evidence Supported Questions
  • Non-calculator section
  • Calculator section
  • 8 grid-ins
  • Covers up to introductory Calculus
  • Organized easy to difficult
  • Editing in Context
  • Questions without Questions
  • Questions with Questions
  • Improving Sentences
  • Identifying Sentence Errors
  • Improving Paragraphs

Structure

Process

Strategies

Format

5 "parts"

Structure

Strategies

  • Organized easy to difficult
  • 13 multiple choice, 4 grid-ins on non-calculator section
  • 27 multiple choice, 4 grid-ins on calculator section
  • Formula page provided
  • Geometry, Algebra, and introductory Calculus (Physics?)

1. Identify type of passage

2. Write 4-6 word summaries as you read

3. Identify scope of questions: global or local

4. Identify style of questions: direct or indirect

5. Answer question first!

6. Find answer that matches

• 1 work of classic literature

• historically significant event

• scientific topic

• social science (economics, politics, anthropology)

• 1 set of paired passages from those

1. Which answer is right?

2. Plug'n'play (#'s 2, 3, 5 & 13, NC; #5 C)

3. Geometry is your friend (#4 NC; #18 C )

4. Pick your own numbers (#11, 9, 16 NC)

5. Slope formula (#8 C)

6. Round off numbers on charts (#'s 14 & 15 NC)

4 Essays

Questions without Questions

Questions with Questions

Editing Grammar/Mechanics

Editing Content

1. Answer as you read

2. Questions without questions:

• "listen" for error

• "read" your answer into the space

3. Questions with questions:

• Know what the question wants

• Think it through

• Organizing paragraphs

• Transition between paragraphs

• Use of evidence (visual and textual)

Types of Questions

• Pronouns

• Verbs

• Punctuation (apostrophes, commas, semicolons, colons, and dashes)

• Transition

• Adverbs/Adjectives

• Common errors (among/between, its/it's, their/there/they're)

• Redundancy

Helpful Concepts

• Vocabulary in context

• Summary/Main Idea

• Author's Intent

• Literary concepts

• Inference

• Use of evidence (visual & textual)

  • Slope formula
  • Distance formula
  • Equation of a circle
  • Quadratic equation
  • Statistics (mean, median, mode, range, standard deviation)

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