Prep for the digital, adaptive PSAT.  Online or in-person with Breakaway Test Prep.

Beginning on October 11, 2024, college admissions testing will enter a new era of digital, adaptive testing.  On that date, many of our nation’s high school juniors, together with the College Board, the publisher of the PSAT, will usher in a new age of testing.  The new PSAT, which students will take on an approved device such as a laptop or Chromebook, will be a digital, adaptive exam, allowing the College Board to significantly shorten testing time by about an hour, while offering more flexibility in terms of days and times within which to test.

To help students prepare for this experience, Breakaway is pleased to be among the first prep organizations in the country to begin offering instruction for the digital PSAT, which will be first offered in October.  Breakaway’s ONLINE prep platform includes six fully digital, adaptive SAT exams as well as one digital, adaptive PSAT.  Breakaway will also offer traditional prep for the digital test using paper tests as well.  Complemented by a lesson manual that offers insights into taking a digital test, Breakaway will help students learn how to take advantage of new digital testing tools such as marking problems for review, eliminating answer choices, highlighting text and annotating reading passages.

Breakaway uses a proven, rigorous approach to test prep to help students prepare for the PSAT and SAT.  Private instruction for the PSAT and SAT with Breakaway typically consists of a series of weekly lessons to get a student ready for a real exam, and the program can be customized based on a student’s starting test score, desired score, availability and response to instruction. Each student who works with us works with two instructors, one of whom will tackle reading and writing and the other will manage math.

Breakaway’s program of private instruction includes:

  • Private, one-on-one instruction for the PSAT and SAT with two expert Breakaway instructors
  • One instructor would manage reading and writing and the other instructor would cover math
  • Access to six digital adaptive SAT exams and one digital adaptive PSAT exam via our digital prep platform or
  • Access to four new paper SAT exams and one digital adaptive PSAT exam
  • Critical time management strategies and helpful test taking techniques for each section of the test
  • A proprietary and proven course manual that provides a comprehensive overview of each section of the test, key concepts, helpful test-taking techniques and critical time-management strategies
  • Supplementary practice problems for homework
  • Convenient lesson times and locations; instructors are available seven days per week, daytimes and evenings
  • The rate for private instruction is $135/hr.  A separate testing and materials fee will apply based on the prep option chosen:
    • Option One is an entirely digital prep package of six digital adaptive SAT exams and one digital adaptive PSAT exam.  All work that your student would do would be on a laptop or iPad.  A lesson manual that includes plenty of practice problems plus overviews of the new tools available to students, e.g., annotating passages, eliminating answer choices, etc., will also be provided. The license fee for this package is $150 for current Breakaway clients and $200 for new Breakaway clients.
    • Option Two is a paper-based option which includes access to four paper versions of a digital SAT.  The paper versions will include two modules for each of the two sections of the test: reading/writing and math.  Two of the tests will include a more difficult module two, and two of the tests will include a less difficult module two. The rigor of the exams should simulate the level of difficulty your student will encounter when they take the PSAT.   A lesson manual that includes plenty of practice problems plus overviews of the new tools available to students, e.g., annotating passages, eliminating answer choices, etc., will also be provided.  In addition to the four paper SATs, your student would have access to a digital, adaptive PSAT which they could take in advance of the real PSAT in October.  The license fee for this package is $50.

Breakaway is pleased to offer private instruction in various convenient locations across the metro area.  Please contact the education director listed below at a location convenient to you.

  • To learn more about prep in Edina, St. Louis Park, Minneapolis and Minnetonka, contact Ron Michalak, Breakaway’s president, at [email protected] or 612–216–5133.
  • In Eden Prairie, Chanhassen and Chaska, please contact Matt McManus, Breakaway director. at [email protected] or 612-578-9995.
  • In St. Paul and St. Paul suburbs, please contact John Kingsbury, Breakaway director, at [email protected] or 218-791-7910.
  • In Plymouth, Wayzata and the northwest suburbs, please contact Barbara Jeffers, Breakaway director, at [email protected] or 612-396-9676.

Ready to get started?  Click here to register for a practice test. Or, if you’d prefer to arrange a call to discuss your student and how Breakaway could help, please click here to complete an inquiry form.