The PSAT is digital starting in October 2023!

The College Board has announced that starting in October 2023, the PSAT will be administered digitally. This will allow students to practice taking a standardized exam on a laptop, PC or tablet before possibly taking the SAT digitally starting in March 2024. Here are a few aspects of the test to keep in mind:

  1. Timing: The new digital PSAT is very similar to the new digital SAT and it is much shorter than the paper version of the exam. It will be a little over 2 hours in length. (2 hours and 14 minutes) There are two sections of the new digital PSAT.

  2. Math Section: You can use a calculator on the entire section. There are 44 math questions and you have 70 minutes to complete this section.

  3. Reading & Writing Section: This section, similar to the new digital SAT will have different reading questions. There will be 150 word passages to read with one question to answer per passage. You have 54 Reading & Writing questions to complete in 64 minutes.

  4. Scoring: Remains the same as the old paper version: The scoring for each section runs from 160-760.

  5. Adaptive: This is probably the biggest change from the former paper version of the PSAT/SAT. You will start the new digital PSAT with questions at a moderate level. Then the next section will either be harder or easier depending on how you answered the first moderate level section.