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Preparing Students and Families for the 2017 Colorado PSAT 10® and Colorado SAT®
Presented in Partnership with the Colorado Department of Education
collegeboard.org/colorado
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Colorado High School Assessments
CMAS
• Readiness Baseline • Aligned to Colorado
Academic Standards • Free to students in
grades 3 – 9 attending Colorado public schools • Includes English
Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies Assessments
PSAT 10
• Check-in and Focus • Aligned to Colorado
Academic Standards and College Board’s College Readiness Benchmarks • Free to 10th grade
students attending Colorado public schools
SAT
• Connect to College • Aligned to College
Board’s College Readiness Benchmarks • Free to 11th grade
students attending Colorado public schools
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Spring Testing – PSAT 10
►April 11 or April 12. Districts have selected one of these dates to administer the PSAT 10.
►April 25 or April 26. Make up test date, depending on the primary testing date selected by the district.
►Students do not need to register for the PSAT 10. Registration will be taken care of by the school district and the Colorado Department of Education.
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About PSAT 10® • The PSAT10 focuses on the skills and knowledge at the heart
of high school education. It measures:
• What students learn in high school
• What students need to succeed in college
• The PSAT 10 measures reading, writing and language, and math skills developed over many years.
• The PSAT10 does not ask for facts from literature, history, or science, or for recall of math formulas, because it measures reasoning and critical thinking skills.
• No need to discover secret tricks or cram the night before.
• There is no penalty for guessing.
• The test length is 2 hours, 45 minutes.
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Spring Testing – Colorado SAT®
11th grade students attending Colorado public schools will participate in the CO SAT.
► Test day is: April 11, 2017
► Makeup test day is: April 25, 2017
► Students will have the choice to take the SAT or the SAT with optional Essay.
► Students do not need to register for the April CO SAT. Registration will be taken care of by the school district and the Colorado Department of Education.
► Initial registration for all students is for the SAT without essay. Students who do not want to take the optional essay do not need to do anything.
► Students who wish to include the essay must add it to their registration between January 27 – February 12, 2017. This is a student task.
► Students who choose to take SAT with Essay will complete both the SAT and essay during the school day test administration.
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About the SAT®
200-800 poin
200-800 points
Math Optional Essay
(separate scores)
Evidence-Based Reading and Writing
200-800 points
3 Hours 50 Minutes
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Key Features of the SAT®
Words in Context Command of Evidence Essay Analyzing a Source Math that Matters Most
U.S. Founding Documents Problems Grounded in Analysis in Science and in and the Great Global No Penalty for Guessing Real-World Contexts History/Social Studies Conversation
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SAT® Scores and Subscores
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Longitudinal Progress Monitoring
Section Scores are placed on a vertical scale.
SAT (200-800)
PSAT 10 (160-760)
100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800
The same concept holds true for the Test, Cross-Test Scores and Total Score.
SAT (10-40)
PSAT 10 (8-38)
SAT (400-1600)
PSAT 10 (320-1520)
6 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600
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The Optional SAT Essay
Information and Resources
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The Optional SAT Essay
• The SAT Essay is voluntary and optional and can be added at no cost to students.
• Adding the essay to their SAT registration is a student level choice and the student’s responsibility. Individual teachers, the school, or district cannot make a policy decision as to who will or will not take the essay nor should schools or districts encourage or discourage individual students from taking the SAT Essay.
• The SAT Essay is given as part of the school day administration
• There will be separate testing rooms for the SAT and the SAT with Essay.
• The SAT with Essay will take approximately one hour longer than the SAT.
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SAT Essay Overview • Offered at the conclusion of the required SAT tests (Reading, Writing and Language, and
Math) • Requires students to make purposeful, substantive use of textual evidence in a way that
can be objectively evaluated • Not designed to elicit student’s subjective opinions
• Connects reading and writing in a manner that both embodies and reinforces the interdependency of these ELA/literacy skills
• Uses a consistent essay prompt in all administrations of the SAT. • The passage for analysis will differ from administration to administration.
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SAT Essay Scores • Each student who opts to take the SAT Essay will receive three scores:
• Reading score • Analysis score • Writing score
• The range for each score is 2-8. • Each essay will be read by two readers who will score on a scale of 1-4 • Two readers’ scores will be added together for scores of 2-8
• The SAT Essay is scored separately from the SAT and does not factor into a student’s SAT total score or subject scores.
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Considering theSAT® with Essay
• The SAT Essay asks students to engage in the type of writingoften required in higher education writing courses.
• The SAT Essay is optional, but may be recommended or requiredby the college your student is considering.
• Each college sets their own policy regarding the essay; contactcolleges for specific policies
• Some colleges have shared their policies with the College Board.Find the list athttps://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sat/register/collegeessay-policies
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Two Ways for Students to Add the Optional Essay totheir SAT Registration • Students who wish to take the optional essay must add it to their SAT registration
between January 27 – February 12, 2017. There is no fee for students who wish toinclude the essay.
• Register online using their College Board account.• Register via phone by calling the College Board’s Colorado Service Desk.
• An informational handout about the SAT Essay is available from schools to assiststudents.
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Creating a College Board Account
Go to collegeboard.org and complete the requested information
NOTE: Remind students to create a new account using their full legal name that matches what the school has on file.
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can have an email sent to recover it.
Using an Existing College Board Account
Provide username and password
If a student has forgotten their username or password, they
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Student accounts include an option for parents to alsoreceive information Be copied on importantCollege Board emails Data privacy information
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My SAT ► Choose My SAT from the
left-hand navigation bar.
► Select “ChangeRegistration” from theMySAT homepage.
NOTE: If a student does not see their registration after logging in, call customer service, 866-917-9030, for assistance.
April 11, 2017
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Register Online for the Optional Essay
► Select “Add the essay to my registrations” from the Change Your Registration page
► We recommend having interested students update their registration during the school day so that the counselor can assist if students have a problem.
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Register Online for the Optional Essay ► Once the “Add the essay to my registration” link is selected, a confirmation message is presented.
► Click OK to continue.
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Checking the Completed Registration
► Students can review their updated registration
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Removing the Optional Essay from a Registration
► If the student would like to remove the essay, select the link to “Remove the essay from myregistration” link before the 2/12/17 deadline.
► Students must take the version of the SAT that they are registered foras of 2/12/17. After that date,students will no longer have the ability to add or remove the optional essay from theirregistration.
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Registering for the SAT Essay by Phone
► Students or their parents may call to register for the essay.
► Call the College Board at 1-866-917-9030 and select Option 2.
► When calling, students will need to provide
► Legal first and last name
► Date of birth
► School name
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Sending Scores
Every student can send theirscores to up to four colleges oruniversities for free. Students can choose where to send their free reports up to 9 days aftertheir test date.
Sending scores is optional. Student scores will not be released to colleges without the student’sspecific consent.
Score ChoiceTM
enables students to:
• Choose which scores to send to collegesby test administration.
• Send only the scores they want to sendto colleges. *
* Students will need to comply with an institution’s stated score-use practice.
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Student Search Service®
• Free program that connectsstudents with colleges and universities
• Students can opt in when theytake a College Board test and colleges may send theminformation about majors, studentservices, campus life, financialaid, or scholarships
• Participation is optional and voluntary and students maycancel participation at any time
• sat.org/studentsearch
To learn more, visit: sat.org/studentsearch
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Download “Daily Practice for the New SAT” for your iPhone or Android device
**This app does not require creation of a College Board account
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Daily Practice for the SAT®
Daily SAT practice questions
Instant practice test scoring
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Official SAT®
Practice with Khan Academy®— It’s FREE! • Go to satpractice.org and create a
free account.
• Get personalized recommendations. Link your Khan Academy account to your College Board account to import past SAT Suite results, or take diagnostic quizzes to get personalized recommendations.
• Create a study plan. Select a test date and set up a practice schedule.
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Students Answer 2.7 million unique users The Call 1 million linked accounts
10% drop in paid-for commercial test prep resources "If you don’t have money to pay for a class, you’re usually just stuck buying a book or you’re on your own mostly, so this time it was really helpful that they had unlimited resources basically for anyone.”
– Maia, Washington, DC
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Free, Official SAT®
Practice Through Khan Academy
satpractice.org
Full Length Practice Tests Six official practice tests, with more to come, plus study and test-taking tips
Video Lessons Easy-to-follow videos explain problems stepby-step
Interactive Problems & Instant Feedback Get hints, explanations and constant progress updates to know where you stand
Daily Practice App More practice available on your phone featuring questions of the day
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Student Data Privacy
Creating College Board and Khan Academy accounts to take advantage of free, personalized SAT practice is optional for students.Students’ data are used and shared through a strict usage policy in order to support the educational success of the students and fornoncommercial purposes.
► For more information about the College Board’s Data Privacy Policy,please visit www.collegeboard.org/privacy-policy
► For more information about Khan Academy’s Data Privacy Policy, please visit https://www.khanacademy.org/about/privacy-policy
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Personalized SAT®
Practice Through Khan Academy
What are the benefits of linkingaccounts?
Create Personalized Practice Through Khan Academy
Ensure Future Scores Are Included For Enhanced Personalization
Jump Right Into Customized Practice
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Khan AcademyResources • Go to satpractice.org/k12 for resources
about Official SAT Practice on Khan Academy.
• View sample study plans and study-group ideas at sat.org/studygroup.
• Student resources for the SAT and PSAT-related assessments are at sat.org/k12.
• Instructional videos on Khan Academy at youtube.com/collegeboard.
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Roadmap to Careers
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Road Map toCareers Roadtrip Nation and College Board are partnering to help students connect with careers.
• Choose your core interests.
• Watch videos of leaders who share your interests.
• Learn about majors and careers that align to your interests.
• See examples of leaders who followed a similar path.
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Thank you for your participation
A recording of this webinar will be posted atwww.collegeboard.org/colorado in the next 2 weeks.
Additional resources may be found at:www.collegeboard.org/colorado
Contact your local high school or school district for follow upquestions and additional information about SAT in your community.