The National Merit Scholarship Program
The results for the 2021 PSAT/NMSQT recently were released. For the approximately 3.5 million students across the United States that took the test this past October, one question will likely come to mind: “What next?” For the 1.6 million high school sophomores (and a few precocious seventh graders, eighth graders, and freshmen) who took the PSAT, the answer is to take the test again. Before junior year, the PSAT has little significance—it merely serves as practice. However, for the 1.5 million high school juniors that endured the grueling three-hour exam, the results of the PSAT/NMSQT… Continue Reading
Breaking Down Vocabulary
So you’ve been studying your vocabulary list for the last few weeks, and you’ve gotten the hang of it. You know definitions and you feel pretty comfortable about understanding the words in context, but what about the other hundreds of thousands of words in the English language? One thing that you can do to prepare yourself when you encounter the more remote words is learn to dissect words and figure out their meanings based on the roots. By dividing words into familiar parts, you can learn how to decode even the strangest vocabulary words. You… Continue Reading
The PSAT 2021
Every year, high school juniors get the chance to compete for opportunities to win amazing scholarships by taking the PSAT. This exam is a student’s ticket to gain recognition and rewards from individuals and organizations interested in supporting their education. These sponsors use the results from the assessment to find students deserve the rewards. The P in PSAT does not stand for Practice (SAT), but for Preliminary and is normally the first standardized test a high school student takes. This exam is the gateway to the National Merit Scholarship Program. By taking the PSAT, students… Continue Reading