One is called a PSAT tag, for pop-up satellite archival tag.
PSAT tags stay on the fish for a few months, collecting data about the depth at which the fish swims and the temperature of the water it swims through.
(Zhang, a junior, would be taking the PSAT the next week).
Tell your daughter that she gave the SAT a try -- the PSAT, too, I bet.
Called ReadiStep, a name that sounds more appropriate for the kindergarten set than middle-schoolers, the two-hour test has questions written in the same style as the PSAT and SAT and a similar marking system: scores range from 2 to 8, which aligns roughly with the 20 to 80 they will someday receive on the PSAT, and the 200 to 800 on the SAT.
FOR those parents and school administrators who believe it is never too early for students to begin preparing for the PSAT and SAT, the College Board has begun offering a junior version of its marquee college-entrance exams — this one specifically for eighth graders.
It's all dependent upon validating my PSAT scores from last year — ensuring that my success, such as it is, is not a fluke.
The on-demand PSAT and SAT training course (ordinarily available for $99) is being offered online by Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions, a rival of Princeton Review.
Many of the teenagers who have received the glasses from Hobart were identified through a College Board search program, in which institutions can buy lists of students who have scored above a certain level on the PSAT or SAT, or signaled an interest in a particular field of study.
The national PSAT averages for 11th graders was 47 in critical reading and 48 in math.
Visualizing the faces as coplanar after seeing only separate drawings of the objects (as Daniel Lowen did on the PSAT) is all the more impressive.
