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✏️PSAT
Key Terms

30 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your PSAT exam

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A

Adaptive Testing
Advanced Math
Algebra
Area and Volume

C

Comma Splice
Craft and Structure

E

Equivalent Expressions
Expression of Ideas

I

Inference from Sample Statistics
Inferences
Infinitely Many Solutions

L

Linear Equations in One Variable
Linear Equations in Two Variables
Linear Inequalities
Lines, Angles, and Triangles

M

Measures of Spread

N

Nonlinear Functions

O

One-Variable Data

P

Percentages
Problem-Solving and Data Analysis
Pronoun Reference
Proportional Relationships

R

Ratios
Reading and Writing Section
Right Triangles and Trigonometry

S

Sentence Fragment
Standard English Conventions
Student-Produced Response
Systems of Two Linear Equations in Two Variables

W

Words in Context