The test center code is 07-620. In October, all fifth formers take the PSAT, which is scored on a 20-80 scale. We also administer it to fourth formers at that time both as practice and as a diagnostic tool to understand better a student's testing pattern. Many students will have been encouraged as early as seventh grade to take a PSAT or even an SAT I. Many merit scholarship programs, most notably the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, are based on the PSAT administered in October of the fifth form year. It is scored on a scale of 200-800 on each of the verbal and math sections.
Students can expect to take at least three such tests.
The Subject Tests may be taken in any year, on dates specified by the SAT Program, but it is most appropriate to take a Subject Test when the student has just completed a corresponding course. June, November, and December when a related course will have most likely been completed. Subject Tests may be taken in any high school year, preferably when a course corresponding to a Subject Test has just been completed. The problem with taking a Subject Test a term or more after the course has been completed is that the student must then spend significant time away from other academic or extracurricular activity to review intensively for the Subject Test. The College Counseling Office recommends the subject tests should be taken after a student completes a year-long course in science, history, and trigonometry and after a term course in precalculus.