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<p>College Board no longer sells/gives out answers to past PSAT's, so I wanted to post them here so I can ask kind CR geniuses for the correct answers (please?).</p>

<p>And if anyone could find me a source that has answers, I would be very appreciated.</p>

<h2>This is from 2008 PSAT Saturday.</h2>

<p>A physicist trained by Chien-Shiung Wu vividly described Dr. Wu's standards of experimental research. "One of the things I learned from her was that if you got a result that didn't agree with someone else's you had to be able to show what they'd done wrong as well as what you'd done right. Otherwise, no one would know whose data to trust. ... you had to believe that what you had done was right, so that you could go on from there and use the data. If it was done sloppily, it wasn't worth doing because the results weren't reliable."</p>

<ol>
<li><p>The physicist implies that the most valuable scientific results
A) enhance professional opportunities for researchers
B) conform to a range of theoretical models
C) have practical uses beyond their scientific purpose
D) can be readily understood by laypersons
E) provide a sound basis for further research</p></li>
<li><p>According to the passage, Dr. Wu's training emphasized that documenting another researcher's apparent errors would benefit students by
A) earning them additional praise for their research
B) helping them to further validate their own work
C) lessening the likelihood that they would make similar mistakes
D) enhancing their appreciation of the complexity of a problem
E) increasing their familiarity with the topic being studied</p></li>
</ol>

<p>Again, I do not have the answer key, so if you can please justify your explanation.
Thank you</p>

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<p>Im no CR genius (69 on PSAT & 610 >.< on SAT last year) but I would say E for 32 since the passage says “go on from there and use the data” and B for 33 cause it says “you have to believe what you had done was right”</p>

<p>Thats kinda how I see it.</p>

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<p>the first one is E.</p>

<p>“you had to believe that what you had done was right, so that you could go on from there and use the data”</p>

<p>answers are here, just google the question my friend.</p>

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<ol>
<li>E
Explanation: above</li>
<li>B
Explanation: “One of the things I learned from her was that if you got a result that didn’t agree with someone else’s you had to be able to show what they’d done wrong as well as what you’d done right. Otherwise, no one would know whose data to trust.”</li>
</ol>

<p>For questions you aren’t sure of, eliminate the choices.
A) earning them additional praise for their research
B) helping them to further validate their own work
C) lessening the likelihood that they would make similar mistakes
D) enhancing their appreciation of the complexity of a problem
E) increasing their familiarity with the topic being studied</p>

<p>None of the choices are(is) mentioned in the passage except for (B).</p>