| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| What You Need to Know about the PSAT/NMSQT | p. 1 |
| Questions and Answers about the PSAT/NMSQT | p. 2 |
| Smart Training for the PSAT/NMSQT and Beyond | p. 5 |
| The College Hill Coaching Plan for Success on the PSAT and SAT I | p. 6 |
| Diagnostic PSAT | p. 9 |
| A Complete Diagnostic PSAT to Assess Your Strengths and Weaknesses | p. 10 |
| How to Build an Impressive Vocabulary | p. 52 |
| Building an Impressive Vocabulary | p. 53 |
| Vocabulary Lessons 1-49 | p. 57 |
| Critical Reading Skills for the PSAT and SAT I | p. 97 |
| What to Read For | p. 98 |
| Master the Basics, Not the Tricks | p. 98 |
| Have the Right Attitude | p. 98 |
| SAT Questions vs. English Class Questions | p. 98 |
| The Three Purposes of Prose | p. 99 |
| The Three Central Ideas | p. 99 |
| Find the Basic Structure of the Passage | p. 99 |
| Simplify by Paraphrasing | p. 100 |
| Visualize | p. 100 |
| Review after Each Paragraph | p. 101 |
| Now Attack the Questions | p. 101 |
| The College Hill Reading List | p. 106 |
| Sentence Completion Skills | p. 121 |
| What Are Sentence Completion Questions? | p. 122 |
| How to Attack Sentence Completion Questions | p. 123 |
| Math Reasoning Skills: What the PSAT Math Test Is Really Testing | p. 142 |
| What Is the PSAT Math Test Really Testing? | p. 143 |
| The Eight Basic Reasoning Skills: MAPS-CATCH | p. 143 |
| Essential Pre-Algebra Skills | p. 163 |
| Numbers and Operations | p. 164 |
| The Laws of Arithmetic | p. 166 |
| Fractions | p. 168 |
| Ratios and Proportions | p. 171 |
| Percents | p. 174 |
| Negatives | p. 177 |
| Divisibility | p. 179 |
| Essential Algebra I Skills | p. 187 |
| Solving Equations | p. 188 |
| Systems | p. 191 |
| Working with Exponents | p. 194 |
| Working with Roots | p. 197 |
| Factoring | p. 200 |
| Inequalities, Absolute Values, and Plugging In | p. 203 |
| Word Problems | p. 206 |
| Special Math Problems | p. 215 |
| New Symbol or Term Problems | p. 216 |
| Mean/Median/Mode Problems | p. 219 |
| Numerical Reasoning Problems | p. 222 |
| Rate Problems | p. 225 |
| Counting Problems | p. 228 |
| Probability Problems | p. 231 |
| Sequences | p. 234 |
| Data Analysis | p. 237 |
| Essential Geometry Skills | p. 246 |
| Lines and Angles | p. 247 |
| Triangles | p. 250 |
| The Pythagorean Theorem | p. 253 |
| Coordinate Geometry | p. 257 |
| Areas and Perimeters | p. 260 |
| Similar Figures | p. 264 |
| Volumes and 3-D Geometry | p. 266 |
| Circles | p. 269 |
| Attacking the PSAT Writing Questions | p. 281 |
| Don't Sweat the Small Stuff | p. 282 |
| How to Attack Identifying Sentence Errors Questions | p. 285 |
| How to Attack the Tougher Questions | p. 286 |
| How to Attack Improving Sentences Questions | p. 288 |
| How to Attack Improving Paragraphs Questions | p. 291 |
| Essential PSAT Grammar Skills | p. 295 |
| Subject-Verb Disagreement | p. 296 |
| Trimming Sentences | p. 299 |
| Parallelism | p. 301 |
| Comparison Errors | p. 303 |
| Pronoun Agreement | p. 306 |
| Pronoun Case | p. 309 |
| Dangling and Misplaced Participles | p. 312 |
| Other Misplaced Modifiers | p. 314 |
| Tricky Tenses | p. 316 |
| Idiom Errors | p. 319 |
| Diction Errors | p. 321 |
| Other Problems with Modifiers | p. 325 |
| Irregular Verbs | p. 327 |
| The Subjunctive Mood | p. 329 |
| Coordinating Ideas | p. 331 |
| Five Practice PSATs with Detailed Answer Keys | p. 341 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |