<p>213 from Ohio. Right on the line for NMSF :S</p>
<p>^ Good luck.</p>
<p>I, too, will take the S test and see what happens.</p>
<p>^ Good luck.</p>
<p>I, too, will take the S test and see what happens. </p>
<p>Do you know when the 2009 booklets become available on CB bookseller website?
I’m so lazy; i don’t feel like calling them. :)</p>
<p>I do not know.</p>
<p>I swear on my life, if i get above 215 on the S form, I’ll shoot myself. Just kidding. But obviously that would mean that the W form was a fluke.</p>
<p>You didn’t have a lot riding on this test, right, fresh?</p>
<p>fresh what did you get?</p>
<p>Nope. It was just for personal achievement. 
Not much satisfaction though…
I may sound like a whiner but my school is very, oh what’s the term i’m looking for…*<strong><em>ty. With a *</em></strong>ty school comes ****ty people (by that i mean dumb people), who all decided upon copying my paper. In doing so, I became distracted because every minute i found myself whispering to people to turn around, which severly perturbed my concentration. In effect, I did not do well. I blame my school. But i cannot also say that even in a different environment i would have done significantly better. Maybe 9 to 10 points better would be my conjecture.</p>
<p>It seems like you’ve accomplished your goal, I believe. Congrats.</p>
<p>In case anyone cares, here is what I am right now:</p>
<p>Math: Still looking good for an 80 (unless I can’t bubble right).</p>
<p>CR: Still at least 1 wrong; maybe more. Hopefully a 77 or 80.</p>
<p>Writing: 2 wrong unless I misbubbled, so it’s a 73 for now. Don’t worry, College Board, the appeal will be on its way. If they reverse their decision, it goes up to 78. </p>
<p>Total: ~230-233; as high as 238 if College Board resigns to me.</p>
<p>Wait why bother appealing silverturtle? A 230 is above the cutoff everywhere. So why would you bother yourself appealing that writing question?</p>
<p>Well, I’ve already written the appeal. Also, it could benefit many others. (Plus, it feels good to challenge the somewhat enigmatic but thoroughly authoritative College Board.)</p>
<p>I really hate the S Writing curve…</p>
<p>CR: 80 (-0)
M: 80 (-0)
W: 70 (-2)</p>
<p>Silverturtle</p>
<p>Why are you going to appeal? You have a great score already and I, as well as other people I know, I got that question right and have nmsf on the line. Appealing does not change the answer but it just removes the question from the test and does not do anyone that much good anyway. Plus, I do not see why explanation of is wrong. Remember that for it to be wrong, it must be totally unacceptable. If it is acceptable under some circumstances (as it was in the sentence) then it is No Error.</p>
<p>Does anyone know when the PSAT results are going to be available on My College Quickstart on the College Board’s official website? It’s already December…</p>
<p>I have a good case, and no one has yet satisfied my ultimatum. It won’t really hurt anyone (in fact, I don’t think it could hurt anyone at all), and it could help a lot of people to a significant extent.</p>
<p>Congratulations, WhartonMaster. That curve really is tough.</p>
<p>Final reasoning why explanation of is No Error:</p>
<p>Silverturtle, although you have proven through multiple posts that explanation for is also acceptable, you have not proven that explanation of is wrong. Recall that for something to be an error, it must be wrong. So, just because explanation for also works in the sentence, there is still no error becuase there is nothing wrong with “explanation of a phenomena”, there is just another possible answer. Thus, it is no error.</p>
<p>^ By your logic, the College Board could make up a word on the SAT and call it the correct choice. They would be “right” because no one could find a definition for it in a dictionary that contradicted what the College Board claimed it to mean.</p>
<p>There is a point when an overwhelming body of evidence can prove to a nonscientific but otherwise satisfying degree that something is wrong. It’s impossible for me to prove them wrong beyond a shadow of a doubt. If that’s the standard of proof, the College Board would win every single dispute on a supposedly nonerroneous error-identification question.</p>
<p>Thus, I may be right. :)</p>
<p>fledgling - Their site indicates “mid December” for the Quickstart access.</p>
<p>I’ll analogize once more:</p>
<p>Let’s say I want to know how to spell a word. Someone tells me that this word that multiple spellings. I believe them. When I see this word on a spelling test, I feel comfortable in picking the spelling that looked somewhat unfamiliar to me because I had been told that there were alternate ways to spell the word.</p>
<p>But another test-taker who wasn’t under the impression that there were multiple spellings to a word finds the question problematic and disputes it, claming that the correct spelling did not appear on the test. </p>
<p>He researches for hours, eventually examining sixteen dictionaries. None of these show an alternative spelling for the word. He sends in his dispute, citing all of these sources and the uniform absence of the alternative spelling. The testing company denies his appeal, saying that he had only proved he was right; he hadn’t proved that the testing company was wrong.</p>
<p>Is he to be expected to find an entry in a reputable source that spells out every incorrect spelling of the word? No, such is impossible. Should the crafting of the question render it infallible? No.</p>