Monterey High School

Junior Newsletter December 2024

Junior To Do List:

Below are some things your junior can be working on to help prepare for the SATs:

Create a College Board and a Khan Academy account and link the two.
This allows College Board to share PSAT scores with Khan Academy to create a personalized learning experience to address the areas your junior needs to focus on before taking the SAT.
Encourage your junior to be working on Khan Academy to help boost SAT scores.
SAT in the School Day-March 4, 2025, all Juniors will take the SAT....FREE-OF-CHARGE!
Alpha counselors will be meeting 1 on 1 with all Juniors this spring as soon as we return from Christmas break to begin preparing for senior year and after high school plans.

Planning for Your Future

Planning for your future can be overwhelming! The link below will direct you to our website where we have put together some resources that you can use starting in high school to help narrow your focus and provide direction.

Click here for Planning for Your Future Resources

When Getting Ready to Apply to College Why GPA and Rank Matter

Total Testing Time

3 hours (plus 50 minutes for the Essay)

Components:

Reading Test
Writing and Language Test
Math Test
Essay (optional)

Important Features:

Emphasis on reasoning, alongside a clearer, stronger focus on the knowledge, skills, and understandings most important for college and career readiness and success;
Emphasis on the meaning of words in extended contexts and on how word choices shapes meaning, tone, and impact;
Rights-only scoring (a point for a correct answer but no deductions for an incorrect answer; blank responses have no impact on scores).

Essay:

Optional and given at the end of the SAT; post secondary institutions determine whether they will require the essay for admissions; 50 minutes to write the essay. Tests reading, analysis, and writing skills; students produce a written analysis of a provided source text.

Score Reporting:

Total score: scale ranges from 400 to 1600. Section score: Scale ranges from 200 to 800, and 10 to 40 on test and cross-test scores. Essay results reported separately, with Reading, Analysis, Writing each reported on a 2 to 8 scale.

Subscore Reporting: