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

<p>@anc10308, A was incorrect for the 122 B.C. one. You can’t use the past perfect for something that occurs after something in the simple past.</p>

<p>Any tips on how to study?</p>

<p>@lowGPAhighACT, i guess the “by” 122 B.C. threw me off…the other two events occurred AT a certain point in time but A occurred by 122 B.C. so i thought the tense would be different there</p>

<p>i feel like i will be on the border of getting NMSF…i’m predicting that my state’s cut off will be anywhere from a 213-217 this year and i’ll probably fall right in that range. i know i missed 1 and omitted 1 math question, probably missed 1 writing, and anywhere from 6 to 9 CR questions :confused: hopefully that will be enough to get me NMSF!</p>

<p>@anc10308</p>

<p>I also had 3 NO ERRORS in the Error ID section, and I’m pretty confident that I didn’t miss any in that section. How many A’s(original sentence) did you have for #1-20? (I think I had only 2).</p>

<p>@abhishek26, i was confident with all of my answers, too. there weren’t any super tricky ones except for the “no sooner…than” one but i put C (when) and i know that’s right. i can’t recall the number of A’s i put for #1-20 but i know there was at least 1! those weren’t too bad either. EXCEPT on one where it had “it is” or “they are” and i stuck with “it is”. what did you put?</p>

<p>@abhishek26, i was confident in all of my answers, too. i didn’t think any of them were too tricky except for the “no sooner…than when” one but i put C (when) and i know that’s right. i can’t recall the number of A’s i had in the first section but i know there was at least 1! that section wasn’t too bad either except for the one where two of the answers had “it is” and “they are” in the answers and i stuck with the answer that had “it is” in it. what did you put for that one?</p>

<p>Can you possibly describe that question? As of right now, I remember choosing “her” for one of the questions because it was the most concise.</p>

<p>@LowGPAHighACT Pretty sure there were only 2 no errors. I spent a large chunk of time making sure that the tenses were correct on that question, so I trust my answer. The other one was the</p>

<p>Additionally, the choice was painful, but I chose “they are her” not “it is her” because the antecedent was plural so I reasoned that the pronoun couldn’t be “it”.</p>

<p>I also got only 2 no errors. It is “they are her” because the "poems are. " It doesn’t sound right because it’s not used in speech, but grammatically it’s correct.</p>

<p>i got two no errors ,but not sure about 122BC one …i put until 122BC…,“they did not” cuz i was sure that there was an error here</p>

<p>@DumbAndLethal</p>

<p>I put “it is her” because she is the person who wrote the books. The question in this question, if you think, is “Who wrote the books?” The answer: it is her who wrote them (or something like that). It’s just a weird form of grammatically correct English.</p>

<p>You can’t prove that “they are her” because there is no reference to they. If you think that they refers to the essays (or something like that), did the essays write the book???</p>

<p>It said something like “it is her musical compositions…”</p>

<p>Do any of you remember the question that asked you to revise a sentence in the griot passage? In context, one answer choice was to replace Their and them with This and ambassadors, which is what I picked.</p>

<p>Can you guys elaborate on this question?
What were the answer choices and what exactly was the question?</p>

<p>Also the answer definitely was “it is her” to the musical compositions question.</p>

<p>@NickSaban I honestly can’t recall any of the other answer choices.</p>

<p>@Cminman I believe the other choices for the one with choice “change ‘their’ to ‘this’ and…” included “delete ‘has’” and “add ‘to.’” I put “delete ‘has.’”</p>

<p>And you guys might be confusing the “her” question with the question about poetry. For that question, you needed to change “poetry” to “poems” because the subject of the sentence needed to be plural.</p>

<p>I felt like the sentence was too vague, but you may be right.</p>