<p>People ARE leaders in a non-political sense. Doesn’t even have to be an advocate for social change. Henry Ford was a leader no doubt; he definitely left a legacy. Intellectuals and scientists can be leaders in rational thought. They leave even greater legacies. Every scientist or engineer’s achievements lay on the shoulders of those before him/her. </p>
<p>I had to do the Turning Points in History one in 8th grade. I wasn’t actually aiming to win, it was just a school assignment, but I wrote about Alan Turing. He’s called the father of computer science and computers have (and will continue to an even greater extent) turned our world around in a better direction. </p>
<p>You don’t have to start wars and have power over other people to be a “leader.” </p>
<p>@topaz1116 I’ve been doing NHD for a few years, and the judges love more obscure or non-traditional topics. One of my friends is doing Stan Lee this year. Another is doing the Beatles (kind of cliche.) I wouldn’t do Stalin/Hitler or anyone like that. If you do Catherine the Great, see if you can get an interview with a professor or something to that effect. Good luck! </p>
<p>I did another PSAT practice test and got a 203. So on the first practice test I got 203, on the second I got 206, and on the third I got 203 again. I guess that prep book was a waste of my money. Hopefully I’ll somehow get a lot smarter for the actual test tomorrow.</p>
<p>@ThatOneWeirdGuy Nope. There was one though where they gave you the longest diagonal which was 48 and asked you to find the perimeter. I think it should have been 144. </p>
<p>Don’t they post them online with QuickStart or something???</p>
<p>So here is how I think I did</p>
<p>0 wrong on math
3-8 wrong on Critical reading (this was so hard)
0-1 wrong on writing</p>
<p>I think I got like 4 wrong on math
maybe 1 or 2 wrong on CR (possibly 0)
at least 2 wrong on Writing, since I didn’t get to those problems, maybe 3 wrong on writing</p>
<p>@ThatOneWeirdGuy You have a hexagon and so you draw the longest possible line within it (a diagonal). then you find the perimeter of the hexagon using that diagonal and knowing that it was 48 units long.</p>
<p>@ThatOneWeirdGuy It creates a 30-60-90 triangle so you know that since the hypotenuse is 48, the smallest side, or the side of the hexagon is 24. then you multiply it by 6 to get the perimeter.</p>
<p>That was easier than I expected. I think I did well on all them but I may have actually missed more in math than in the others though it was still pretty easy. The writing was about the same as I expected and the Critical Reading was much easier.</p>
<p>@livelaugh7 I also got that answer for that question but I won’t say any more because we aren’t allowed to discuss it and I don’t want to get in trouble. They may be able to track me down somehow through the internet.</p>
<p>The Critical reading was harddddddddddddd. I don’t remember half of my responses anyways. Gotta wait till december
The math was easier than I thought it would be.
@dsi411 True true true. What score do you think you got?</p>
<p>Hm, I never would have thought of the 30,60,90 part. </p>
<p>Looking through the official psat thread, I’ve been given a confidence boost for the CR section. From what people are saying, I think I got a disproportionate amount of “no errors” for Writing though, but I can’t really remember how many of those I put down. I still know I got a few wrong in math though. </p>
<p>@dsi411 They know people talk about it after it’s all said and done, there’s no stopping that, that’s why they have different tests. </p>
<p>I’m pretty sure I got none wrong on Math, maybe 1-2 on Writing at worst (for some questions, there were two answers that were technically grammatically correct? I just chose the one that I thought was more appropriate, given the context) and maybe 4-5 on CR (for all the questions I was unsure about, I narrowed it down to one or the other and chose the one I thought might be a bit better than the others). Now we just wait until December.</p>
