The PSAT gives high-school juniors a chance to qualify for National Merit Scholarship Corporation scholarship programs. It's given once a year, in October, mostly to juniors and sophomores. Like the SAT, but Shorter The PSAT is a little bit more than two hours long. Although it's shorter than the SAT, the PSAT has all the question-types and tests much the same knowledge. The PSAT scores that are counted for scholarships and other awards are from your junior year.
Many students take the PSAT as sophomores, though, for practice.
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