PSAT/NMSQT is the Preliminary SAT National Merit Scholarship
Qualifying Test. It is given in October to our sophomores and
juniors, and Deerfield handles the registration. You do not need
to sign up for the PSAT. Scores from the junior year are used
for National Merit Scholarship Qualification (NMSQT), and are
for student, advisor and parent reference only. These scores are
not sent to colleges. SAT I is the most common college admission
exam in the Northeast. The exam consists of critical reading,
mathematics, and writing sections, and requires four hours to
complete. It is administered six times a year on campus between
October and June. SAT Subject Tests are often referred to as SAT
IIs. These are one-hour, multiple choice exams that test your
knowledge of specific academic subject areas such as foreign
language, math, sciences, history, and English literature.
Students can choose which tests to take and the tests are
offered six times per year, on the same dates as the SAT except
in March when only the SA