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This shorter version of the full-size Barron's PSAT/NMSQT prepares high school students for the preliminary version of the SAT college entrance test. This preliminary test also serves as the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Barron's Pass Key to the PSAT/NMSQT presents two full-length practice tests with answers and explanations for all questions. It also includes subject reviews with additional questions and answers in the test's three sections--Critical Reading, Math, and Writing Skills.

The latest information on enrollments, tuition and fees, academic programs, campus environment, available financial aid, and much more make the 29th edition of Profiles of American Colleges America’s most comprehensive and authoritative source for college-bound high school students. Every accredited four-year college in the United States is profiled, and readers are directed to a brand-new Barron’s Web site featuring a FREE ACCESS college search engine that presents exclusive on-line information to help students match their academic plans and aptitudes with the admission requirements and academic programs of each school. The book presents profiles of more than 1,650 colleges, each profile including details on: • Admission requirements • Library and computer facilities • Admissions procedures for freshmen • Campus safety and security • Thumbnail descriptions of faculty • Requirements for a degree • Athletic facilities • Extracurricular activities • E-mail addresses • College fax numbers and web sites • Admissions Contacts • and more Schools are rated according to Barron’s reliable competitiveness scale, which ranges from “Noncompetitive” to “Most Competitive.” The book’s tinted pages section presents an Index of College Majors that lists all available major study programs at every school. Also profiled are excellent colleges in Canada and several other countries, as well as brief profiles of religious colleges, and American colleges based in foreign countries.

This book will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school. Two veteran home educators outline the classical pattern of education'he trivium'hich organizes learning around the maturing capacity of the child's mind: the elementary school "grammar stage," the middle school "logic stage," and the high school "rhetoric stage." Using the trivium as your model, you'll be able to instruct your child in all levels of reading, writing, history, geography, mathematics, science, foreign languages, rhetoric, logic, art, and music, regardless of your own aptitude in those subjects. Newly revised and updated, The Well-Trained Mind includes detailed book lists with complete ordering information; up-to-date listings of resources, publications, and Internet links; and useful contacts.

Four model SAT II tests in physics are patterned after the actual exam in its new SAT II format. All questions are answered and explained. An in-depth review covers the basic concepts of physics, and many drill questions with answers are included to sharpen students' skills.

Updated to reflect the most recently given SAT I exams, this manual presents a diagnostic test and seven full-length SAT I tests, all with answer keys, explanations, and solutions. Review sections cover math topics, verbal skills, reading comprehension exercises, and vocabulary. (Study Guides)