<p>How should i prepare for this? Is it best to use an SAT Prep book to study with since the tests are similar???</p>
<p>That's what I've heard, because they way, you are studying for the SATs at the same time. I suppose if you thought the PSATs were more important, for the National Merit Scholarship you might want to get a PSAT study book. I'm not an expert or anything though, this year I only got 204 PSAT 2060 SAT (1450Old)</p>
<p>I studied a bit using one of barron's old sat books and managed a 220. I'm expecting a similar sat score, but I think I did reasonably well studying from the sat prep book.</p>
<p>Are you going to be a sophmore or a junior? At my school we took it both years... so if you're a sophmore I would say don't study and see how you do, since it doesn't really matter. (I got a 220 w/o studying)</p>
<p>I think an SAT book would be fine to study with b/c the PSAT is basically a shorter SAT w/o the essay. Then, you'll already have an SAT book for whenever you take that.</p>
<p>I used the SAT Blue Book (got a 222).</p>
<p>I was wondering about this too. I was just going to use that huge, blue, phonebook-esque, SAT manual made by CollegeBoard. It seems like it would work, and it will save some money.</p>
<p>i'm going to be a junior and i did fairly poorly on it when i took it the 1st time. (won't give out my score tho, lol) but i'm very motivated to be national merit.</p>
<p>Study for the SAT, the PSAT is exactly the same thing minus the essay.</p>
<p>Buy SAT prep books and borrow PSAT/NMSQT books from the library. Mix it up.</p>
<p>Doing the SAT work would give you more mental endurance, while doing PSAT stuff would teach you time management explicitly for the test.</p>
<p>aight thanks.</p>
<p>I would say just to study for the SATs. It's like killing two birds with one stone. Because as everyone else said, the PSAT is the exact same thing as the SAT, just without the essay and much shorter.</p>
<p>I didn't study at all, considering I took it as a sophomore this year and got a 193, which I thought was pretty good, until I saw the other scores ^^^^. haha</p>
<p>Definitely just study for the SATs... the PSAT will seem like cake, har har.</p>