If you dont know already, I am a junior at John Marshall High School. The big thing for me this year is all of the standardized exams that I have to take. One of them is the PSAT, considered a preparation test for the SAT. Despite the SAT already being downplayed (John Marshall is in the middle of Minnesota, where the ACT reins supreme), the PSAT is barely even given a notice. You recieve a small piece of paper showing the time and cost of the PSAT and that it's it. No announcements and you never have classes to practice for it. Thats probably the reason why more than 50% of John Marshall doesn't take the test, but fortunately for me, my AP Lit classes requires me to take it.
You can underestimate the power of the PSAT, it goes with National Merit Scholarship, which is considered to be the most presitigious of all the scholarships, and many colleges look for students to do well in the PSAT as an indicator to how they match up with the rest of their graduating class.
The rest of Minnesota can't compete if this is the attitude shown by schools about this test.
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