PSAT/NMSQT

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Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test

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Acronym	PSAT/NMSQT
Type	Paper-based standardized test
Administrator	College Board, NMSC
Skills tested	Reading, mathematics
Duration	2 hours 14 minutes
Score range	160–760 for two sections, adding up to a maximum score of 1520
Offered	High school juniors, sophomores, and freshmen (only in some schools)

The Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) is a standardized test administered by the College Board and cosponsored by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) in the United States. In the 2018–2019 school year, 2.27 million high school sophomores and 1.74 million high school juniors took the PSAT.^[1] Scores from the PSAT/NMSQT are used to determine eligibility and qualification for the National Merit Scholarship Program.^[2]