*****2013 October 16th PSAT Answers*****

<p>Anyone know the finalist cutoff?</p>

<p>I’m positive it was 7</p>

<p>not sure if I’m being paranoid… but did you guys find faulty comparison in any of the writing problems?</p>

<p>I found the orange juice comparing with the coffee but I put “Coffee” because it was comparing to the “BEVERAGE that stimulates”</p>

<p>Plus…it was near the front so I wasn’t anticipating any faulty comparison >.></p>

<p>Depends on where you live</p>

<p>That is what I put. Orange juice more stimulating beverage than coffee, or something.</p>

<p>Yes, I put “coffee.”</p>

<p>Did you guys put the choice “prone…histrionics” for the Sentence Completion?</p>

<p>but what was the question asking for? like not the answer but what was the question? i cant remember what i put so if i have the question, i might be able to remember or at least remember if i think i did it right</p>

<p>@john
Yes I got that</p>

<p>What was the answer for the computer lab one? 124 or 116</p>

<p>The computer lab answer was 124.</p>

<p>I’m not sure of the exact question, but the key word in the sentence, I think, was the fact that orange juice as a “beverage” was being compared, not “drinking” orange juice.</p>

<p>Did you guys find any faulty comparison questions besides that? Like on the Error-Identification questions where they’re tricky?</p>

<p>nope wasnt it 116</p>

<p>They all added up to 132 and the 8 lunch kids were in 2 other periods. Wouldn’t it be 132 -2(8)=116</p>

<p>Can you explain ur way?</p>

<p>They all added up to 140. I think you didn’t count the 8 kids in the lab during lunch at all.</p>

<p>Wait were there any diction or preposition errors?</p>

<p>Wait, I think I subtracted 16, too…don’t you count the 8 kids, then because they went to the lab 2 other periods, you subtract 16 from the total…?</p>

<p>@sjwon - Not that I remember. I’m getting so paranoid.</p>

<p>can someone explain the triangle one to me? like the height is 4 and its made up of similar smaller triangles inside?</p>

<p>Well, from what I remember, there were peiods with 26, 18, 22, 8, 24, 20, and 22 students in the lab (not necessarily in that order). This means that a total of 140 students 9including the repeats) were in the lab. If you subtract the repeats (two periods of eight kids each equals sixteen total repeats), you get that the maximum number of different kids would be 124.</p>