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The PSAT/NMSQT
The same shape and the same clock as the SAT, on a lower score scale.
The shape of it
PSAT/NMSQT, section by section.
| Section | Time | Questions | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading and Writing | 64 min | 54 | Same structure as the SAT. |
| Math | 70 min | 44 | Some answers are written in, not selected. |
The ledger
Every claim, and where it came from.
Open a row to read the wording that supports it and the page it was read from. Each statement was read off College Board’s own pages on 8 September 2026 and is quoted beside the value.
Total testing time2 hours 14 minutesconfirmed
The same total as the SAT.
Structure page: "The PSAT/NMSQT takes 2 hours and 14 minutes."
https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/psat-nmsqt/whats-on-the-test/structure read 8 September 2026
Reading and Writing64 minutes · 54 questionsconfirmed
Structure page table: Reading and Writing — 64 minutes, 54 questions.
https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/psat-nmsqt/whats-on-the-test/structure read 8 September 2026
Math70 minutes · 44 questionsconfirmed
Structure page table: Math — 70 minutes, 44 questions. The two rows total "134" minutes and "98" questions.
https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/psat-nmsqt/whats-on-the-test/structure read 8 September 2026
Total questions98confirmed
Structure page, combined row: 134 minutes and 98 questions.
https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/psat-nmsqt/whats-on-the-test/structure read 8 September 2026
Written-in answersSome math questionsconfirmed
Not everything is multiple choice.
Structure page: "Most of the questions are multiple choice, though some math questions ask you to write in the answer rather than select it."
https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/psat-nmsqt/whats-on-the-test/structure read 8 September 2026
Total score320–1520confirmed
Each section is reported separately.
Score report table: Total Score "320–1520"; Section Scores "160–760".
https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/psat-nmsqt/scores/understanding-scores read 8 September 2026
Section scores160–760 eachconfirmed
Reading and Writing, and Math.
Score report table: Section Scores "160–760".
https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/psat-nmsqt/scores/understanding-scores read 8 September 2026
Fall 2026 testing window1–30 October 2026confirmed
Your school picks the day inside it.
Test dates page: testing window "October 1–30, 2026".
https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/psat-nmsqt/test-dates read 8 September 2026
How you registerThrough your schoolconfirmed
There is no public registration for this one.
Test dates page: students taking PSAT assessments do not sign up themselves — "Schools or districts will handle the registration process."
https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/psat-nmsqt/test-dates read 8 September 2026
The calendar
When you can sit it.
A window, not a sitting. 1–30 October 2026 — from College Board, re-read 28 September 2026. It opens in tomorrow. Your school or district chooses the day inside the window and registers you.
Practice
From the people who write it.
Free full-length practice tests in Bluebook — the same app the real test runs in. Official practice for the PSAT/NMSQT.
This page reproduces no testing body’s questions. Official practice is the only material written by the people who write the real test, and every test here has some free.
Method
Where every figure comes from.
The sources
106 statements about 9 tests, each read off the testing body’s own page or PDF and quoted beside the value: College Board, ACT, Law School Admission Council, ETS, Graduate Management Admission Council and Association of American Medical Colleges — 38 official pages in all. The format statements were read on 8 September 2026 (the SAT’s added ones on 9 and 28 September 2026); the calendars were re-read on 28 September 2026. SAT score ranges for 700 colleges are the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard, public-domain federal data, fetched 8 September 2026: 700 of the 1,037 schools that report an SAT average, complete down to an average of 1,102.
Fetched and computed
Nothing is fetched from a testing body when a page loads: the readings are two files on labs.llc, tests.json and colleges.json. What is computed, on labs.llc, at the moment you load the page: every countdown and registration state (in the body’s own time zone — Eastern, Central for the ACT), the study plan, the finder’s gauges and the arithmetic in the SAT page’s dealt openings.
The limits
These are readings, not a live feed: confirm a deadline on the body’s own site before you rely on it. Calendars end — SAT 5 Jun 2027, ACT 10 Jul 2027 and LSAT 12 Jun 2027 in these files, and the MCAT’s has already run out, which its page says. GMAC’s mba.com and the AAMC’s calendar sit behind browser checks this site will not try to get past; where that cost a reading, the page says so. The Scorecard figures are the latest cohort the Department had published, which trails the current admissions year.
What you type
The test, date, score or state you put into a form here travels only as the address of the next page on labs.llc (?t=, ?d=, ?s=, ?st=). Nothing is stored. The site’s analytics records page views, and that address is part of the view it records. No account, no cookie of this page’s own; the edition switch keeps one word, paper or dark.
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