Though I am quite circumspect to break the oath I signed and discuss the test - but not really because that was just a perfect way to use a vocab word - most of the questions on the test can be summarized with one word: stupid. But wait, are they really THAT terrible? Everyone who immediately said "Well, yeah" can shut up, something's only bad or terrible if it fails at accomplishing its goal. With that in mind, are the PSAT's actually that bad?
The goal of the PSAT is literally in the name: it's a Practice for the SAT. Annoying and completely awful to actually do as it may be, it at least kind of makes students think about the SAT's, even if it itself really means absolutely nothing in and of itself. Oh it's also meant to bring its completely altruistic company tons of money, which it unequivocally does quite effectively.
For reasons unknown by top scholars, the layout was reading, writing, math, math v 2.0 (Now with even more SUFFERING). For reasons also unknown, math v 2.0 was approximately 150% more difficult than three times the difficulty of the combination of the reading and writing sections combined together. However, my mechanical pencil broke in the middle of this test and I hated the non-mechanical pencil I had with me so much that I spent about 1/2-34n^3+7 minutes attempting to fix it.
So, to put it simply, the PSAT's were like every other standardized test, just with a timer. Also, about 1/4 of 73% of the test was developed by Satan, and the remainder was developed by his best friend Todd.
I don't know where you got these statistics, but I am disturbed nonetheless.
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