{"id":6313,"date":"2023-07-09T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.academicapproach.com\/?p=6313"},"modified":"2023-10-30T13:53:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T18:53:07","slug":"national-merit-scholarship-updates-for-the-digital-psat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.academicapproach.com\/national-merit-scholarship-updates-for-the-digital-psat\/","title":{"rendered":"National Merit Scholarship Updates for the Digital PSAT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The College Board has released a new Preparing for the PSAT\/NMSQT<strong>\u2122<\/strong>&nbsp;booklet that is updated for the Digital PSAT to be administered in October of this year:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/satsuite.collegeboard.org\/media\/pdf\/psat-nmsqt-student-guide.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/satsuite.collegeboard.org\/media\/pdf\/psat-nmsqt-student-guide.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some important takeaways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The National Merit Selection Index Calculation Has Changed:<\/strong>&nbsp;Under the previous paper-based PSAT selection Index, the writing and reading sections were counted independently towards the selection index. Now, the combined reading\/writing section counts twice as much as the math. The formula is as follows: \/10 = National Merit Selection Index. The Selection Index will be between 48-228. So, students should be sure to do as well as possible on the Reading\/Writing sections in order to earn National Merit Recognition.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Students Should Review the Bluebook Application for PSAT Practice:<\/strong>&nbsp;In years past, the PSAT\/NMSQT has had extensive practice. For the Digital PSAT\/NMSQT, the College Board is encouraging students to go directly to the Bluebook Application and Khan Academy to get practice material. There is one PSAT practice test available on Bluebook.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Students Can Use the PSAT to Connect with Colleges and Scholarship Organizations:<\/strong>&nbsp;The College Board has a program called&nbsp;<em>\u201cConnections\u2122, a free program that lets you hear directly from nonprofit colleges, scholarship programs, and educational organizations that are interested in students like you.\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;It is notable that in light of the recent affirmative action decision by the Supreme Court, students have the option of sharing their race\/ethnicity in the Connections program. Since the PSAT is not technically used for college admissions, perhaps this will be a way that colleges can bypass the restriction on using race\/ethnicity in the admissions process to encourage a more diverse selection of students to apply.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>As more information becomes available, we will be sure to keep you up to date.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks, Brian W. Stewart<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See original post here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bwseducationconsulting.com\/national-merit-scholarship-updates-for-the-digital-psat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.bwseducationconsulting.com\/national-merit-scholarship-updates-for-the-digital-psat\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The College Board has released a new Preparing for the PSAT\/NMSQT\u2122&nbsp;booklet that is updated for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.academicapproach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.academicapproach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.academicapproach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.academicapproach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.academicapproach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.academicapproach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6317,"href":"https:\/\/www.academicapproach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6313\/revisions\/6317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.academicapproach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.academicapproach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.academicapproach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.academicapproach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}