PSAT PreAdministration

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PSATPre-Administration

• Advisory Grades 9-11
• Week 10
• Tuesday, October 14, 2008

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PSAT Pre-Administration

• Teachers Please distribute one answer document
  and one pencil to each student.
• Students DO NOT BEGIN filling out your answer
  document until your teachers instructs you to do
  so. It must be filled out following the very
  specific instructions that follow
• Teachers Please read the information on the
  following slides EXACTLY.

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Answer Document Section 1

• Today you will be filling out your identifying
  information on the PSAT/NMSQT answer sheet.
• Use only a No.2 pencil. Raise your hand if you
  do not have one. Begin by reading the directions
  in the box above Section 1. Then enter your
  name, LAST NAME FIRST, and fill in the
  appropriate ovals carefully. Make sure each mark
  is dark and completely fills in the oval
• (Proceed NOW to the next slide for a picture of
  the answer document)

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READ
Write and bubble in your name
Last Name here!
Look up when you finish Are there any questions?
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Answer Document Sections 2, 3, 4

• In Sections 2, 3, and 4, fill in the appropriate
  ovals.
• When completing Section 3, Date of Birth,
  select the correct month, day, and year of your
  birth. Fill in the zero oval in the left column
  if your birthday is prior to the tenth day of the
  month.
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  answer document)

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Fill in these three sections.
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Answer Document Section 5

• Enter your social security number in Section 5.
  If you do not have a social security number,
  cannot remember it, or do not wish to give it,
  leave this section blank. Do not enter any
  number other than your social security number
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  answer document)

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Fill in this section if you choose.
Are there any questions?
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Answer Document Section 6

• In Section 6a, enter our school code 053685.
• In Section 6b enter our school name and address.
• Fill in the Yes oval in 6c
• Your score report will be sent to our school.
• (Proceed to the next slide for a picture of the
  answer document)

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6b. is Wasco Union High SchoolP.O. Box
250Wasco, CA 93280
6a. is 053685
6c. bubble in Yes
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Answer Document Section 6

• In Section 6d. You will fill in an Optional
  Code that is assigned to your advisory teacher.
• (Teachers find your name in the following list,
  and inform students of the correct optional
  code.)

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Optional Codes for Section 6d.
9th Grade 01 Abernathy02 Bayley03 Blanchard04
Brackley05 Ceiley-Jackson 06 Cherry07
Derrick08 Fields 09 Hively10 Jeffries11
Mitchell12 E. Moreno13 K. Moreno14 L. Ortiz15
Ruiz16 Sears17 Torres18 Wilson19 Winters20
Woods21 Yasenchak
11th Grade 36 Absey37 Binen38 Ekanem39
Fahey40 Garcia41 Gonzalez42 Green43 Hunter44
Johns45 Leon46 MacLean47 Morales48 Solis49
Sparks50 Stiles51 Williams
10th Grade 22 B. Bell23 M. Bell24 Bellis25
Castro26 Frantz27 Martinez28 McCraw29
Nagel30 Nance31 A. Navarrete32 R. Navarrete33
Okolonwamu34 Pettibone35 Ray-Delfino
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answer document)
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6d. is the code assigned to your teacher. You
must fill in one oval from each column.
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Answer Document Sections 7-12

• Sections 7-12 are included to help the College
  Board help you. Some of the information you
  provide will help ensure that tests are fair for
  all groups. Some of it can help colleges,
  universities, and nonprofit educational
  opportunity organizations, and some scholarship
  programs provide you with relevant information
  for college planning. Your answers to these
  questions will not affect your participation in
  the competitions conducted by National Merit
  Scholarship Corporation.

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Answer Document Sections 7-12

• Complete Sections 7, 8, 9a, and 9b. Mark only
  one oval for each item
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  answer document)

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Fill in ONE oval for each of these four sections.
Are there any questions?
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Answer Document Sections 7-12

• Section 10 asks if you wish to participate in the
  College Boards Student Search Service, a free
  service that provides names of students to
  certified educational organizations. You must
  fill in the Yes oval in Section 10a to let
  colleges, universities, scholarship programs,
  educational opportunity organizations, and the
  College Board know that you are interested in
  receiving information about the educational and
  financial aid opportunities they offer.

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Answer Document Sections 7-12

• Colleges, universities, and scholarship programs
  that request it will receive your name, address,
  and some other information you provide on this
  answer sheet. They will NOT receive your actual
  test scores.
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  answer document)

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Mark Yes if you would like information from
colleges and educational organizations.
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Answer Document Sections 7-12

• If you marked Yes and would like to receive
  information via e-mail, print your e-mail address
  in the spaces provided in section 10b. Colleges
  and scholarship programs may prefer to contact
  you viae-mail. Indicate if this is your e-mail
  address or a parent/guardians address. If you
  do not have an email address, you can still
  receive information by regular mail. Leave
  Sections 11 and 12 blank at this time.
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  answer document)

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If you want to, fill in your email address
CLEARLY, and indicate if it is your address or
your parents.
Do not answer these.
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Answer Document Sections 13 14

• Turn your answer sheet over to page 4. Sections
  13 and 14 relate to scholarship programs
  conducted by National Merit Scholarship
  Corporation. Complete all parts of Section 13
  if you omit a part, NMSC cannot determine if you
  meet requirements to enter its scholarship
  programs.

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Answer Document Sections 13 14

• In section 13a, indicate whether you are enrolled
  as a full-time high school student.
• In Section 13b, fill in the oval next to the year
  in which you will complete or leave high school
  and enroll full time in college. For example,
  11th graders who are planning to complete high
  school and enter college in 2010 should code
  2010. Tenth graders should code the year in
  which they will complete high school, which in
  most cases will be 2011.
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  answer document)

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13a. is Yes
13b. is the year you plan to graduate.
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Answer Document Sections 13 14

• In Section 13c., fill in the oval next to the
  number of years you expect to spend in grades 9
  through 12. If you spend one year in each grade,
  you will complete high school in 4 years.
• In Section 13d., if you are a United States
  citizen, fill in the Yes oval. If you are not
  a U.S. citizen, fill in the No oval that
  applies to you.
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  answer document)

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13c. is how many years you will spend in high
school.
13d. is your citizenship status.
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Answer Document Sections 13 14

• If you are a Black American and wish to enter the
  National Achievement Program as well as the
  National Merit Program, fill in the Section 14
  oval in addition to completing Sections 13a. to
  13d.
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  answer document)

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You may only fill in Section 14 if you are an
African-American. This is optional.
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Answer Document Sections 15-21

• Now carefully read directions in the shaded box
  above Section 15. To receive mail from
  scholarship programs, colleges, and universities,
  and to be able to access My College QuickStart
  online, you must fill in the address ovals
  correctly. Include your apartment number in 15,
  if you have one. If necessary, use the address
  abbreviations in the lower right of your answer
  sheet.

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Answer Document Sections 15-21

• Indicate a space in your address by leaving a
  blank box and filling in the corresponding
  diamond. If your address has a slash mark or a
  hyphen, fill in the corresponding slash mark or
  hyphen oval. Be sure to complete your 5-digit
  zip code in Section 18.
• Leave Sections 20 and 21 blank at this time.
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  answer document)

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Fill in your address exactly like it looks on
your mail. If you get mail at aP.O. Box, use
that address.
Your house NUMBER first, and then your STREET.
If you leave a space, fill in the diamond under
that space.
Wascos zip code is 93280. Lost Hills zip code
is 93249.
(Numbers are down here)
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PSAT Pre-Administration

• That concludes our PSAT Pre-Administration
  session!
• Teachers Please collect the answer documents and
  pencils and keep them in a secure place until
  tomorrow morning.

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PSAT Pre-Administration

• Students Tomorrow morning, Breakfast Break is
  before school it ends at the first bell at 824.
  You MUST be in your Advisory class by 830.
• Remember to bring a calculator for the math
  portion of the test! You may NOT use the
  calculator in your cell phone, or any other
  calculator that has an alphabet keyboard. You
  may not share a calculator, so bring your own.