<p>I'm good at reading and math, but somehow I can never manage to do well on both at once.</p>
<p>PSAT 70CR/80M</p>
<p>SAT expecting something along the lines of 780-800CR/740-750M</p>
<p>Adding to the pertinent observation vs. explanation question (I just remembered the exact reasoning I followed when I took the test):</p>
<p>Twain's quote was about how people who praise others want praise in return, which makes his quote an pertinent OBSERVATION. If his quote had been about how people who didn't praise others did not want praise in return, then it would have been an EXPLANATION. I think this is the defining aspect of observation vs explanation in this particular question. I might be going a little too deep into the question, but it makes sense this way.</p>
<p>can someone make a list of all we compromised on?</p>
<p>i put pertinent observation. pretty sure that's right.</p>
<p>does anyone know what 3 wrong and 1 omit will come out as?</p>
<p>Yeah, pertinent observation NO DOUBT.</p>
<p>Was stark...cerebral one of the answers? What were the other decent answer choices in that question (if any)? I may or may not have put that.</p>
<p>How about the dinosaur question when it asks what the lady from the 2nd passage would think about lines 38-41 (aka the lines that were used in like 4 different questions)? I think that may have been the last question of the section.</p>
<p>^Im trying to compile a list. As others have noted Direct Hits really did have a number of hits ie malfeasance, intemperate, pragmatic, superficial, innuendo etc. I think I aced this test.</p>
<p>750-770</p>
<p>10char</p>
<p>yes, stark and cerebral was DEFINITELY the answer. 100%.</p>
<p>Oh, that dinosaur one was hard. I believe I put misleading and risky, but i honestly had no idea.</p>
<p>what was the dinosaur question?</p>
<p>yep, i put pertinent observation & stark/cerebral :)</p>
<p>^Definitely STARK ... CEREBRAL</p>
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<p>I put that! I thought of the brain for the thing.. Hahaha.</p>
<p>explain how cerebral can possible be the answer</p>
<p>yes! i put stark and cerebral as well
my reasoning was just about the "brain"</p>
<p>the question was talking about a style that was to-the-point and very intellectually-based. Cerebral directly corresponds with the "intellectual" part of the question.</p>
<p>the last question of the dinosaur passage asked what the lady critic (in passage 2) would think of the dinosaurs being described as teenagers thing. anyone remember it? misleading and risky was one of the answers.</p>
<p>yeahh it said intellectual and not evoking emotions i thinkk</p>
<p>ohh i thought i read something about making instinct judgements instead of processing judgements some question i think i dont know :p</p>
<p>nah mellamokiwi , it was beneficial and something else becausee in passage 1 it said that the placard said the scientists weren't sure if it was true or something along those lines, which is exactly what the critic liked.. she wanted to expose people to the process behind science, not just the ends results</p>
<p>i concur with jules92
i said beneficial for the same reasons.</p>