The College Board was required , as the result of a lawsuit in the mid-1990s , to include a written portion on the Preliminary SAT , a test given to high-school juniors and used to assess eligibility for National Merit Scholarships . The PSAT 's new writing portion "closed the gender gap on the PSAT by about 40 percent , which results in several million dollars a year of additional scholarships going to females " Schaeffer said . While the writing portion will lessen the gender gap...











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