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PSAT 2024 | October 9, 2024

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What the Reading and Writing Section is Like (from the PSAT Student Guide)

What the Reading and Writing Section Is Like

The Reading and Writing section of the PSAT/NMSQT is designed to measure your success
with building critical college and career readiness in literacy. In this section, you’ll answer
multiple-choice questions requiring you to read, comprehend, and use information and
ideas in texts; analyze the craft and structure of texts; revise texts to improve the rhetorical
expression of ideas; and edit texts to follow core conventions of Standard English.

Passages in this section, which serve as the basis for answering test questions, represent
the subject areas of literature, history/social studies, the humanities, and science. There is
a single question per passage.

Select questions in this section are accompanied by an informational graphic.

Reading and Writing Section Overview

Test length:

1st module: 25 operational questions and 2 pretest questions
2nd module: 25 operational questions and 2 pretest questions

Total: 54 questions

Time per module:

1st module: 32 minutes
2nd module: 32 minutes

Total: 64 minutes
(1.19 minutes per question)

What the Math Section is Like (from the PSAT Student Guide)

What the Math Section Is Like

The Math section of the PSAT/NMSQT is designed to measure your success with building
critical college and career readiness knowledge and skills in math. It focuses on key
elements of algebra, advanced math, problem-solving and data analysis, and geometry and
trigonometry. Over the course of the Math section, you’ll answer multiple-choice and student
produced response questions that measure your fluency with, understanding of, and ability
to apply the math concepts, skills, and practices that are most essential.

Approximately 30% of Math questions are set in context. These in-context “word” questions
require you to consider a science, social studies, or real-world scenario and apply your math skills
and knowledge, along with an understanding of the context, to determine the answer to each.

Select questions in this section are accompanied by an informational graphic.

Math Section Overview

Test length:

1st module: 20 operational questions and 2 pretest questions
2nd module: 20 operational questions and 2 pretest questions

Total: 44 questions

Time per module:

1st module: 35 minutes
2nd module: 35 minutes

Total: 70 minutes
(1.59 minutes per question)

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