It is that time of year again. Students are logging into their College Board accounts, seeing a wall of numbers and percentiles, and wondering what it all means. The PSAT has arrived, bringing equal parts excitement and confusion. For many sophomores and juniors, this is their first real taste of a national standardized test. Parents are often left trying to figure out how much it really matters.



The PSAT does offer valuable insight, but not always in the ways families expect. Here is what your student’s score truly reveals, and what it does not.