Wolves, cookies and dinosaurs: What’s on the new PSAT, according to tweeting teens

Students across the country are taking the College Board's PSAT exam today. The exam is meant to prepare students for the SAT and is the qualifying exam for the National Merit Scholarship. It's also increasingly being used to identify students who could succeed in AP classes.

Students who take the test tweet about it every year, and today is no different. Every year, students seemingly look forward to the barrage of PSAT jokes and memes; it's like a reward for finishing the thing.

The PSAT -- officially dubbed the PSAT/NMSQT -- got a redesign this year, giving students a chance to prepare for the first administration of the newly revamped SAT test. According to a College Board press release, the updates are "based on the latest evidence that shows what students need to know to be college ready — and it better reflects what they’re learning in class." Last year, 3.8 million students took the PSAT, and this year, the College Board is expecting that number to increase.

This is what teens had to say about it.

Of course, these tweets reference just a few of the questions, and aren't representative of the whole test or of all the students taking it.

The College Board won't comment on the content of the test, spokesman Zach Goldberg said.

But here's what we think is on the new PSAT, based on the students tweeting about it.

There is definitely a question about wolves, and it might have had to do with making eye contact.

Some were even inspired by it.

So, there might have been a question about tilapia. That question also may have had something to do with the water in Minnesota, though they could be totally unrelated.

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FOR THE RECORD:
A previous version of this article misidentified the state in some tweets as Montana. It was actually Minnesota.

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A question about water might also have had to do with buying cookies.

And there was definitely something about dinosaurs.

It's possible the students were asked to interpret poetry that might have caused an uprising.

Frederick Douglass and his hatred for the Fourth of July also made an appearance.

Still, some students are disappointed at the lack of fodder that the redesigned PSAT offered.

 

 

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