Take a PSAT Digital Practice Test to Help You Prepare for your Official Exams
Digital PSAT® Practice Tests:
Designed to Mirror the Look and Feel of the Real Test
Compass offers a cutting edge digital testing platform and we are proud to share our adaptive digital PSAT practice tests with students looking to analyze and improve. The digital, adaptive PSAT replaced the paper-based assessment in fall 2023.
NOTE: This is for new students only. If you are working with Compass as a 1-on-1 tutoring client, please log into your account to request a practice test through the “Schedule a Practice Test” button on the Tests tab. If you are enrolled in a group class or have ever taken a practice test with us, please contact us at (800) 685-6986 or tests@compassprep.com to set up a new practice test.
Students who have tested with Compass previously may see a repeat test when using this registration.
Accommodations: Timing accommodations are available for all practice tests.
Already taken a digital PSAT with Compass? Click here to interpret your score report and find guidance on what to do next.
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$ 50
Per Test- Digital Test
- In-Person
- Human Proctor
- At Select Locations
- On Set Days/Times
After the Test: Questions and answers are available to review for 120 days following the completion of a practice test.
Practice Test Donation Campaign: 10% of the proceeds from all practice tests are donated to organizations that enact social change through educational programming!
Financial Aid: Need-based fee waivers are available.
*NY In-Person Practice Tests are $100.
Compass Digital PSAT Practice Tests
Digital Adaptive PSAT (Overview)
PSAT Overview
Both the digital SAT and PSAT are the same length. Each section is broken into two stages. Reading & Writing contains two stages of 27 questions in 32 minutes. Math contains two stages of 22 questions in 35 minutes. The Compass practice test contains an additional 20 minute section of either Reading & Writing or Math questions for greater test prep analysis that does not exist on the official College Board Test. Students with accommodations will not receive this extra section on Compass practice tests. Practice Test Timing Guidelines PDF
50% extended time and 100% extended time accommodations are available and all students must use the entire time for each section – students cannot complete a section early and move on. Students with standard time also receive a final section of either: Reading & Writing or Math.
The PSAT is not item-adaptive where every question varies based on performance. It is stage-adaptive. It will only adapt once for Reading & Writing and only once for Math. This lowers the stakes on any one question. It also preserves the ability to go backward and forward within a stage.
The first stage of each section is not adaptive (item difficulty will not “adapt” to a student’s performance) and it contains a full range of question difficulty. At the end of the first stage, the test will choose which of the two remaining sets of questions is an appropriate level of difficulty: one module will be on average easier and the other module will be on average more difficult. This shift in difficulty is critical to getting to an accurate score on a shorter test.
Digital Adaptive the Compass Way
The Digital PSAT and SAT practice tests mimic the interface, question types, and test structure of College Board’s exams. Following completion of the exam, our score reports provide detailed analytics of your strengths and weaknesses. In addition to content analysis, we include information you won’t receive from College Board—time spent per question and average time students spent to get each question correct—to help you understand your time management needs.
Compass offers students the opportunity to practice on a digital exam platform and receive feedback on performance. This is not an official College Board practice test.
- We recommend that you use your own calculator for the practice test
- Review College Board accepted calculator policy here
- However, you may also use the free online calculator used by College Board in another browser window.
- You may also use scratch paper.
Digital PSAT Practice Test (Demo)
Piloted through our partnerships with hundreds of leading high schools around the nation, online practice tests for the new digital PSAT are available to individual students at home at their convenience through our testing center. Tests are self-administered and score reports are released the same day. Students will get a feel for the new test format including:
- New question formats
- Shorter reading passages
- Updated timing
- Digital interface mimics the real test
- Adaptive structure and scoring
Want to learn more? Take a tour of the Online Testing Center.
Important Note: The practice test demo in our testing center must be accessed through Safari, Chrome, or Firefox on a laptop, desktop, or tablet. Mobile phones are not supported.
Sophisticated Score Reports (Features)
To help you get where you want to go, we want to see where you currently stand. Our practice test score reports provide a detailed portrait of your testing strengths and weaknesses, allowing us to make recommendations tailored to your personal needs.
- Interactive Score Reports for a much deeper dive into your diagnostics
- Digital Adaptive Testing to mirror the multistage adaptive design on test day
- SAT/ACT Comparison Tool to determine your best path forward for admissions
- Percentile Ranking Tool to show how different score gains will improve your competitive standing among your peers
- Similar Scorers Chart to illustrate how students with commensurate testing ability performed on each of the questions
- Question flagging to review specific questions that you got right but didn’t fully understand
- Attractor Answers to show which trap answers you did and didn’t fall for
- Question Performance Tab to show how you fared in specific areas
Interactive PSAT Score Report (Sample)
Sample Interactive Score Report
The question viewer is accessible for 60 days.
Practice Tests Terms & Conditions
As with official testing by the College Board or ACT, capacity constraints may limit our ability to confirm students at their first-choice testing sessions. We may be able to accommodate students by offering a different testing location (including online options via our Online Testing Center or with an online proctor) or a different time and date. Students must schedule practice tests with sufficient notice to allow Compass staff to prepare the appropriate testing materials. In most cases, self-administered, at-home testing is also an option. Tests taken at home must be mailed to a student in advance, so planning is important. Compass reserves the right to enact, enforce, and alter test scheduling and reservation policies.
Registered users can Login for the current list of testing times and locations. Please keep in mind that a session may already be full. A practice test request made via any page on our website (www.compassprep.com or my.compassprep.com) does not constitute a reservation. You will be notified by the Compass office about our ability to confirm your place on the testing roster. If we do not already have a credit card on file, we will contact you for payment of the proctored practice test fee. We understand that plans change. The testing fee will be credited back to your Compass account as long as cancellation or rescheduling takes place at least 72 hours before the start of a testing session. Students with delinquent balances may be asked to arrange payment before testing sessions are booked.
Students receiving testing accommodations from an official testing organization should discuss their needs with a Compass director. Extended time and other accommodations may only be available at certain testing locations and at certain times. Always reconfirm the specific accommodation when scheduling future testing, as our proctoring staff cannot make last-minute changes.
Each test type has a limited number of available forms released by the testing organization. Compass directors can advise you about recommended scheduling to maximize the benefit from these forms.
Practice tests are best thought of as periodic performances that allow the student and a Compass tutor to assess progress. As such, we discourage practice testing that is not tied to Compass insight and instruction. Serial testing may prove detrimental by reinforcing bad habits and taking time away from thoughtful practice of skills and strategies. If instruction is being provided by a non-Compass tutor or company, we ask that you contact that tutor or tutoring company about their practice test offerings. Compass reserves the right to limit or decline practice testing in these situations.
