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How to Prepare for the Psat/Nmsqt: How to Prepare for the Preliminary Sat/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (9th Edition)

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I am a private tutor. I work with 80-100 students per year on the PSAT/SAT. I find that of all the PSAT books, this is the best, although imperfect, since it has the most practice materials. I concur with another review that there are mistakes, so the user has to be careful. However, the mistakes are few compared to the volume of material in the book. There is also a lengthy section of vocabulary building which is valuable.

I have done five of the practice tests, and I have found mistakes in every single one! Now, I'm just a student; I'm not a teacher who's nitpicking at every little thing.

Some questions in the practice tests do not have a right answer because of a mistake in either the question or the answer choices. There are mistakes where the answer key differs from the explanation. There are also questions that have glaringly obvious puctuation errors.

This book has a lot of mistakes. It has too many tests, but not enough practice problems to help correct your weakness. It has good tips on doing the problems.