PSAT/NMSQT

So it's hard to fully enjoy it.

Although I think too, in test prep sort of calendar, we're kind of at the end of our PSAT.

You know, the ACT was earlier this year.

So there is something interesting this October of feeling like, Oh, we had those like, you know, several SATs.

But now you have a whole other group of people.

You have the seniors that have one last shot for the December SAT and ACT.

You have juniors who will be getting their PSAT scores soon.

And then there's a wake up call.

how do I know whether the SAT or the ACT is the better test for me, right? So there's one school of thought that says, just take a practice test of each.

And some people have the belief that you can PSAT so closely correlated to the SAT, you could maybe use your PSAT for your SAT and then do the comparison charts.

And if one is noticeably better, go with that.

If it's not, then I hear different advice.

Mark, the way you phrased the question was so comprehensive.

I feel like we could talk for an hour about all of that because it was really rich and you pulled out everything.

So I'm going to go back to a couple of the initial points of the question, right? How do you determine whether SAT or ACT is better for you as a test taker? First, I would say that if you're using the PSAT as a way to determine, it's absolutely true that the PSAT today is a much closer correlation with the actual SAT than any version of the PSAT ever was.

You remember back in the day, we used to have all kinds of crazy math.

So he'll get a B or have a B or C in a class when he's more than capable to have A's in all these classes.

But he took the PSAT the other day, and he got a perfect score on the English test.

side of things, which is really hard to do.

And it's because his vocabulary is so good and he's reading for joy.

to have a proctor secretly correct her daughter Sophia's SAT answers.

The fraudulent score was 400 points higher than her earlier practice PSAT.

Sophia was unaware of her mother's actions.

She later retook the SAT legitimately and was accepted into Carnegie Mellon University's drama program.

And he says the students are already showing improvement.

The ninth graders had a 9% increase on PSAT and our juniors had a 5% increase on the SAT.

And so I'm hopeful, really excited that we were able to accomplish that in just a few months.

And so Just looking at what a year gives us the opportunity to do is really exciting.

And he says the students are showing improvement.

The ninth graders had a 9% increase on PSAT, and our juniors had a 5% increase on the SAT.

And so I'm hopeful, really excited that we were able to accomplish that in just a few months.

Just looking at what a year gives us the opportunity to do is really exciting.

So to ensure they're ready for Delta, we now use those indicators that I talked about earlier, GPA, agency, attendance.

Can they advocate for themselves? Can they be organized? Are they ready to go? PSAT data, all of that we use.

And then they get to go and typically we place them in English and math to start.

So they get those classes and then they can take a few other handful of electives if needed.

I think when they're younger, they could be taught, right? We learn those skills, obviously, when we're growing up.

But if they're not taught that, by the time you go to adulthood, if you don't have work ethic, I don't know how you ever make it in the world.

And when you talk about the MAG and employers that are in our state that want employees, they're not looking at their PSAT test.

They're not looking at their M-STEP test.

Yeah, and I wonder if...

You know, I've been, I've been doing PSAT practice and one of the stats that comes up in one of the questions that I've been doing is this statistic that more and more fantasy books are being written and published and bought by kids, and I wonder if maybe authors are kind of pi- pivoting towards fantasy just because of the fact that in realist- in terms of realistic fiction it's so tough to keep up with what kids are saying.

And I think that there should 100% be realistic fiction books out there.

So as one of you mentioned, I don't recall who, but there's, there's talented writers out there.