1. Smyrna Middle School Parent Presentation February 2018
8th Grade PSAT
Smyrna Middle School
Parent Presentation
February 2018

2. Melissa Buchanan AP/SAT District Coordinator

3. PSAT 8/9 The PSAT is made for 8th grade students.
Baseline of College Readiness
Assesses the skills and knowledge of high school curriculum
Prepares students for the SAT

4. PSAT scores correlates to the SAT
PSAT is graded on the same scale as the SAT so that students can measure progress

5. Skills Assessed by PSAT
Evidence Based Reading and Writing (ERW)
Math
Science and Social Studies
Based on reasoning and critical thinking

6. SMS Scores (By the numbers)
808 Mean total score for Smyrna Middle 28% of SMS students met both the benchmark in both ERW and Math

7. SMS Scores (By the numbers)
412 Mean Evidence Based Reading and Writing (ERW) score for SMS This is just above the benchmark 60% of SMS met the benchmark in (ERW)

8. SMS Scores (By the numbers)
396 Mean Math score for SMS This is just below the benchmark 34% of SMS met the Benchmark in Math

9. College Board Accounts
Create a College Board account with your student to access more information about their score.
Make sure to save your login information!

10. Kahn Academy www.kahnacademy.org College Board + Kahn Academy
Link your accounts
Free, Personalized, and Focused practice for students

11. Advanced Placement Program AP Potential
PSAT helps students to determine what AP classes they should take

12. Build personalized plans
Big Future
Helps students to:
Find colleges
Pay for college
Build personalized plans

13. ROADTRIP NATION www.roadtripnation.com What do I want to do?
Identify students’ core interests
Find Careers and Majors that Match
See examples of others that followed that path

14. Smyrna High School Counselors
Connect with your future school counselors:
Schedules
SAT and AP
Determining Majors and Careers
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