Even though the first "P" in the acronym PSAT stands for "practice," every parent or tutor worth his or her salt know full well that the PSAT is anything but a practice test. The PSAT is when the top academic institutions in the nation and around the world will begin taking a serious look at the potential and the performance of a student, and a high PSAT score can mean real money towards the education of a student in a higher learning facility. With this in mind, the practice that a student undertakes for a PSAT should be at least as rigorous as the practice that he or she has undertaken for any test hence, and for the SAT afterwards. The PSAT should be treated like the SAT, for all practical and scholarship purposes. Practicing for the PSAT in this manner can also prepare the student to achieve a much better performance on the SAT. Though there are many types of practice PSAT tests out there, there is really no reason to treat the PSAT as a test different from the SAT. Although the PSAT is shorter, and some would say easier, than the SAT, many students have found great success in actually studying for the PSAT with SAT booklets. However, if this is not your chosen strategy, then you must make absolutely sure that the PSAT practice booklet that you choose is able to introduce your student to the strategy behind the PSAT test as well as the information that will be tested. Above all, the PSAT is the test of a student's logic skill. If taken completely from the information that the student has learned in school, there will be many questions that the student can not answer, simply because he or she has not yet studied that material in school. However, the test takers will always place within those kinds of a questions a way to eliminate all of the wrong answers, leaving only the right one available. PSAT test question writers are admonished to make sure that each and every question of this sort has only one answer, and that there is no ambiguity here. This non-ambiguity does not only apply to the math section of the test, but also to the English section as well. The general consensus is that answers in the English section will not go against the common morality, and that generalizations will usually invalidate an answer as less appropriate.