For many high school students, taking the PSAT/NMSQT is their first concrete step toward preparing for the SAT and planning for college. This exam also serves as the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, enabling the highest scoring test takers an opportunity to win one of several scholarships. This manual presents a diagnostic test and six full-length practice tests with all questions answered and explained. It also presents vocabulary-building word lists, and subject reviews with practice questions in critical reading, math reasoning, and writing skills. Added features include an overview of the PSAT/NMSQT, study advice, and test-taking tips.
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Choose Barron's Method for Success on the PSAT/NMSQT
Read and understand the authors' overview of the test Take the diagnostic test to discover your weaknesses Devise your personal study plan for success Use the book's subject reviews to improve your skills in all test topics Take the book's full-length practice tests and score your results Review the answers and explanations for all test questions
It's Your Path to a Higher PSAT/NMSQT Score
Choose Barron's Method for Success on the PSAT/NMSQT
It's Your Path to a Higher PSAT/NMSQT Score
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Sharon Weiner Green, M.A., is former Instructor in English, Merritt College, Oakland, California, and the author of numerous test preparation books.
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This review is from: Barron's How to Prepare for the PSAT/NMSQT: PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (Barron's PSAT/NMSQT) (Paperback)
This book is extremely poorly edited and filled with errors. Although there are explanations for every question on the practice tests, many are entirely wrong. Example: How many 2 digit numbers are there which do NOT contain the number 9? The correct answer is 72. Their answer? 71...how? Subtract out "..the ten numbers from 90 to 99 plus the 9 other numbers that end in 9: 9, 19,...,89". That's a direct quote, and last I checked, 9 had just one digit. This is simply one of many examples of poor editing, and completely incorrect answers/explanations. Definitely try something else.
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Excellent Practice for the PSAT's,
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This review is from: How to Prepare for the PSAT/NMSQT (Paperback)
I agree somewhat with what other the reviewers said that "this book has too many errors," and it does have a lot of erros. However, I don't think that there is another PSAT book on the market that parralels all the things in this book. First of all, the writers went into great detail about all the question types and there were TONS of practice problems and a test to review each question type to diagnose your weak areas. Then there was a 1300 word vocabulary list and a succint PSAT high frequency word list. There was even roots to help with unfamiliar words that you may encounter on the day of the test. And lastly but not leastly--there were 10 practice tests. This is probably the best PSAT, SAT, and even SATII:Writing book that there is out there. The mistakes are nothing compared to the breadth of knowledge and tips that this book provides. This book is definitly worth every last penny.
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Thank you Barron's,
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This review is from: Barron's How to Prepare for the PSAT/NMSQT: PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (Barron's PSAT/NMSQT) (Paperback)
Thanks to this book I did so well (1360 -- I only got 1040 when I took the PSAT in 10th grade) that I am really feeling confident about my SATs this spring. The book taught me everything I needed to know. I improved much more than my friends who took courses. The tactics REALLY helped a lot. I found out that I could get a higher score by not trying to answer all the questions. The math sections in particular were great. Even though your PSAT scores aren't sent to colleges, you want the experience of good scores before you take the SAT. GET THIS BOOK!
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Your plan to take the PSAT/NMSQT is perhaps your first concrete step toward planning a college career. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
relationship between the paired passages, choose that letter, blacken that choice, machine scoring your exam, teenagers subscribe, introductory material that may, one error per sentence, blacken the appropriate space, innumerate people, four alternate ways, pronoun number agreement, moving theatrical experience, one pseudoscience, blank indicating that something, vague coincidences, calculator whenever, strangler tree, applicant for this job, impersonal generalities, selecting your choice, improving sentence questions, three acceptable ways, improving paragraph questions, probable achievement, unedited draft Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Model Test, United States, Building Your Vocabulary, Reference Information, Eudora Welty, Martin Luther King, National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, College Board, First Couple, Great Britain, Improving Written Expression, Lady Catherine, Latin America, President Clinton, Evaluation Chart Study, New England, New Negro, Supreme Court, White House, Helen Keller, Jackie Robinson, New Deal, Nineteenth-Century America, Paul Gauguin, Senator Moynihan New!
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Your plan to take the PSAT/NMSQT is perhaps your first concrete step toward planning a college career. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
relationship between the paired passages, choose that letter, blacken that choice, machine scoring your exam, teenagers subscribe, introductory material that may, one error per sentence, blacken the appropriate space, innumerate people, four alternate ways, pronoun number agreement, moving theatrical experience, one pseudoscience, blank indicating that something, vague coincidences, calculator whenever, strangler tree, applicant for this job, impersonal generalities, selecting your choice, improving sentence questions, three acceptable ways, improving paragraph questions, probable achievement, unedited draft Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Model Test, United States, Building Your Vocabulary, Reference Information, Eudora Welty, Martin Luther King, National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, College Board, First Couple, Great Britain, Improving Written Expression, Lady Catherine, Latin America, President Clinton, Evaluation Chart Study, New England, New Negro, Supreme Court, White House, Helen Keller, Jackie Robinson, New Deal, Nineteenth-Century America, Paul Gauguin, Senator Moynihan New!
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