If you cannot win the reward or whatever, what's the point to take PSAT?

Test Preparation
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<p>If you cannot win the reward or whatever, what's the point to take PSAT?</p>

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<p>to practice under real conditions and mildy stupid proctors</p>

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<p>man, my 18 dollars~~~~~~~~</p>

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<p>lol, it costs 35 (?) at our school.</p>

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<p>16 at mine.</p>

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<p>12 at mine</p>

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<p>0 at mine haha cause all the kids in mississippi who are juniors and sopho's get to take the PSAT for free.</p>

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<p>22 at mine. I think it is pointless not to take it, because it costs relatively little and can really only benefit you. And its not like it takes 5 hours.</p>

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<p>free at mine</p>

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<p>18 at mine..</p>

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<p>Thirteen at mine.</p>

<p>I personally consider it poor practice for the real SAT. The best practice for the real SAT are CB questions.</p>

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<p>My school paid for us to take it as sophomores but charged us $12 to take it as juniors. I don't know if they ran out of money or if they're just stupid.</p>

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<p>it's really beneficial not in the sense that the problems will be exactly like the real SAT but you'll be able to find out that whether you are successful under the time pressure, or not. Everyone should take it as a practice and oh yeah... get used to the frustrating test proctors :)</p>

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<p>$20 at my school.</p>

<p>I thought it gave me a good idea a good idea of the format and the time constraint. The first PSAT I took was the old one, so that didn't help as much as I took the new SAT. It still helped though,</p>

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<p>I agree that it gives many a false sense of security that they somehow "practiced" or "studied" for the SAT, just by taking the PSAT. The only way to study for the SAT is practice CB questions, but some think that taking the PSAT is adequate practice.</p>

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<p>It's not practice by any means, but for people like me, who had no chance at getting semifinalist standing, it's a good way to just test under actual conditions. It made me think, "well I'm good at writing, so I don't need to practice that as much, but I'm horrible at math so I really need to try hard on that."</p>

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<p>Yea that is another good point...last year my PSAT results gave me some direction for what to focus on for this year's SAT. Because I got an 80 on grammar, I knew I didn't need to study that as much, and my lower-than-expected CR score helped show me that I needed to improve on that section.</p>

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<p>I did absolutely terrible on the PSAT but well on the SAT... I didn't even pay much attention to my PSAT score.</p>

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<p>$10 here :-)</p>

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<p>Unlike you guys, my school forces freshmen to juniors to take the PSAT. O_o</p>

<p>It's free though and we get a halfday, so I guess it's not all bad.</p>