Help Your Children Prepare For The New SAT And More

The next meeting of the Newtown High School Parent Teacher Student Association (PTSA) will take place on Tuesday, January 11 at 7 pm at Newtown High School.

The group will discuss the revised format of the new PSAT and SAT, as well as the ACT and AP tests. Each section of the revised SAT will be scored using the familiar scale of 200-800, including the new writing section.

Two sub scores will be given for the writing section: a multiple-choice sub score on a scale of 20 to 80, and an essay sub score on a scale of 2 to 12. The essay sub score will be evaluated by two high school or college instructors, each of whom will not know how the other is scoring.

For more information on the meeting, contact PTSA President Janis Solheim at 426-4822.