PSAT & SAT
The Preliminary Scholastic Assessment Test (PSAT) is published by The College Board as a tenth or eleventh grade practice instrument for students taking the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) in the eleventh and twelfth grades. The College Board sponsors the AP program with technical operational services provided by Educational Testing Services (ETS) in Princeton, New Jersey. The PSAT is designed to help students identify academic strengths and weaknesses in preparation for their last two years of high school. The decision to participate in PSAT administration is made at the local school system level. Where the PSAT is administered, student participation varies from all students in a system's targeted grade level to voluntary student participation. Since 1997, state funds have paid for the PSAT administration to all 10th grade students in Georgia's public schools. In 1999, over 65,000 tenth graders participated in the PSAT program.
The Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT), is administered by the College Board and is designed to measure verbal and quantitative reasoning skills, developed over many years of education, that are related to academic performance in college. SAT scores are intended primarily to help forecast the college academic performance of individual students. Because SAT scores are statistically controlled to maintain the same meaning from year-to-year, and because the SAT-taker population is relatively stable from year-to year, this report can be used to:
* interpret SAT Program scores of individual students within the broader context of data aggregated across groups of college-bound seniors;
* study changes over time in the characteristics of students taking SAT Program tests;
* look at year-to-year educational and demographic changes in this population, along with changes in test performance.
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