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My College QuickStart

Free personalized planning kit

When your students take the Preliminary SAT®/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®), they're taking a big step toward life beyond high school. How can you help them look past their scores toward their future? How can you help them assess their skills, understand their academic needs, and make sense of their interests?

My College QuickStart is an easy-to-use, online, personalized college and career planning kit available free of charge to all students who take the PSAT/NMSQT. This useful tool incorporates student responses that were provided when they took the test, and it presents their data back to them in four main parts:

  • My Online Score Report—an enhanced score report that allows students to review each test question, the student's answer, and the correct answer with answer explanations
  • My SAT Study Plan—a customized SAT study plan based on student PSAT/NMSQT test performance, highlighting skills for review and practice
  • My College Matches—a starter list of colleges based on the student's state and indicated choice of major
  • My Major & Career Matches—personalized lists of majors and careers plus access to a personality assessment that suggests other compatible possibilities

Students can access their accounts starting in mid-December. To sign in, students need:

  • The access code printed on the upper right corner of their PSAT/NMSQT score report
  • A College Board student account (Students who do not already have a College Board account will be prompted to create one. It typically takes less than two minutes to create a free account.)

My College QuickStart Resources

Several resources are available to help educators implement My College QuickStart in the classroom as well as to encourage student use at home.

Resources include:

  • Lesson plans to lead students through specific sections of My College QuickStart
  • Guided exercises for students on how to set up their accounts and connect with or without an access code
  • Implementation guide for educators that includes best practices
  • Resources for communicating to parents
  • Access to a guided tour

Take a tour of My College QuickStart and then show your students how to sign up for this free customized college planning kit.

Customized Entry Pages

HIGHLIGHT

Several My College QuickStart resources are available for educators, including an implementation guide, quick reference sheet, lesson plans and more.

Review the Implementation Guide to learn best practices.

Print this quick reference sheet and share tips with students, parents, and colleagues.

Use the ORA Personality Profiler lesson plan to help students learn about their personality types.

Take the My College QuickStart tour.

My College QuickStart Demo Account

Experience My College QuickStart using a demonstration account. To log in:

1. Go to the Summary of Answers and Skills (SOAS) reports homepage.

2. Sign in with your SOAS access code, which is printed on your school's Roster of Student Scores and Plans.

3. Click on MCQS Demo Wednesday Test or MCQS Demo Saturday Test under Resources on the right side of the page.

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