<p>What was your reasoning behind that choice?</p>
<p>I put delete ‘has’ because the rest of the paragraph was in the past tense (I specifically remember seeing the word ‘were’ in the previous sentence). The ‘has’ didn’t make logical sense compared with the rest of the paragraph, a deleting it would result in a simple past tense verb, which made sense in the context of the passage.</p>
<p>Well, this is disappointing. I was hoping to get a 76 on writing. But now I probably won’t make national merit with a 216. :(</p>
<p>For Critical Reading, does anyone remember what they put for the cow passage about what the author of passage 1 felt most significant about the self-sufficient farmers in Passage 2, lines 71-72*?
Choices included
(A) something about short distance between exchanges
(B) ?
(C) the whole family would participate
(D) ?
(E) ?</p>
<p>*The line numbers are probably wrong, but those were about what they were.</p>
<p>Not sure what the other choices were, but I’m fairly certain that A is the correct answer.</p>
<p>For those interested, snippets of the second passage can be found here:
[Plenty:</a> Eating Locally on the 100-mile Diet - Alisa Smith, James Bernard MacKinnon - Google Books](<a href=“Plenty: Eating Locally on the 100-Mile Diet: A Cookbook - Alisa Smith, J.B. MacKinnon - Google Books”>Plenty: Eating Locally on the 100-Mile Diet: A Cookbook - Alisa Smith, J.B. MacKinnon - Google Books)
It’s interesting how the College Board modified the text to make it suitable for the PSAT.</p>
<p>Lol, I’m sorry, but that actually wasn’t the answer to the self sufficient question, since transportation was never mentioned in the second passage. The other two answer choices were “the parallels between urban and rural life” and “it prevented the expansion of farm operations”.</p>
<p>Lol this is probably illegal but how do you get 7 for the candies one? I completely skipped it.</p>
<p>.what was the question about lines that intersect to form perpendicular lines.DID the question give us the slope or coordinates.
i remember that line passes through origin right?</p>
<p>@jasoncaa1</p>
<p>If I remember correctly, the answer to that math question was ((-3/4),1).</p>
<p>@Cminman “that actually wasn’t the answer to the self sufficient question, since transportation was never mentioned in the second passage.”</p>
<p>I don’t know if it needed to be mentioned. Clearly the author of passage one believes that local farms reduced the pollution or need of gas or whatever, so applying this logic, we could assume that the author of passage 1 would’ve thought that the local farmers in passage 2 had to do with short distances between exchanges. I don’t know if that made sense. The passages give you the general relation: close farms = less transportation. The author of passage 1 would’ve definitely thought that the local farms mentioned in passage 2 would shorten the distance between exchanges. In contrast, the other 2 options you give are total malarkey and don’t apply to the passage at all. “The parallels between urban and rural life” doesn’t really make sense because no parallels were mentioned… at all. “it prevented the expansion of farm operations” just has nothing to do with either passages. Neither talked about the prevention of expansion of farms. I think you’re wrong lol :/</p>
<p>thx i got something,1 too just worrying that the coordinate is given instead of slope.</p>
<p>@nicksaban @cminman Do either of you remember the last other answer choice to that question?</p>
<p>@NickSaban You may be right, but the information given about the self-sufficient farmers in Passage 2 demonizes the expansion of corporate operations by citing the amount of output of contemporary agribusinesses. In my experience, the PSAT is rather straightforward in that it wouldn’t ask one to make an inference about something that isn’t even inferred in a passage (meaning that Passage 2’s main points about self-sufficient farmers were reliability and small operations). Also, while Passage 1’s author is clearly agitated by the transportation industry, such an entity would not exist had it not been for the expansion of farm operations. Haha, I don’t want to completely dismiss your standpoint, though.</p>
<p>There was Ip question the two answers confused me “verb them,and verb them”
and another one is also gramatically correct.</p>
<p>For the perpendicular lines question, I also got (-3/4, 1).</p>
<p>Cminman, what did you put for your answer? Did you put “the parallels between urban and rural life”?</p>
<p>@johnstucky No, I put “the expansion/mechanization of farms” or something like that. Parallels was definitely incorrect, since the passage explicitly stated that rural life was very different from urban life.</p>
<p>@jasoncaa1 Was that question in Writing Skills?</p>
<p>It was a possible answer.ithink that it’s parallel !</p>