Reference Information is given at the beginning of each section.

 There are two types of questions on the PSAT; multiple-choice and open response.

You have 5 choices for the multiple choice questions.

 The PSAT is designed so that you should spend less than a minute on each question.

The PSAT and SAT are tests that students in CT Technical Schools must take.

Read each problem quickly.

Every student in a CT technical high school HAS to meet a mathematics performance standard.

A score of 450 on the PSAT9 meets the mathematics performance standard.

You can trust a picture marked “not drawn to scale.”

 It is a good strategy to rush through easy questions to get to the hard questions.

The PSAT is a test of intelligence.

The highest score you can get on the PSAT is 760.

Check your work after you’re finished but before time is called.

Multiple-choice questions on the PSAT have the correct answer and the most common incorrect answer in the choices.

Read the directions for each section carefully.

There are no penalties for incorrect answers.

It is more important to answer as many questions correctly as you can than to finish a section.

Questions generally go in order from easiest to most difficult in each section.

There are about the same number of As, Bs, Cs and Ds as correct answers.

It's better to leave a question blank than to guess.