How does PSAT 2009 compare with 2008, 2007, 2006?

<p>Any opinions? I think it was more or less the same to 2008 in terms of difficulty.</p>

<p>slightly harder than 2008 test, much harder than 2009 practice booklet</p>

<p>the practice book was a joke, I got an 800 for CR in it, but I think I missed 4 vocab questions today</p>

<p>I think I’m the only one in my grade who thought it was harder than 2008 one. I agree, the Practice Booklet was a big joke…</p>

<p>The agree that the practice book was cake. Maybe I’m a different person, but I took most of the time alloted for the Writing Skills Section.</p>

<p>I hated the writing, but in all honesty I did not think it was that hard. Like I know I still got some questions wrong but I didnt think it was extremely hard at alll. The booklet was hmmm interesting to say the least.</p>

<p>Beware: taking tests under real pressured conditions can add to their difficulty…</p>

<p>^I am talkion about the actual test lol. I took it today also</p>

<p>My D just took the PSAT and said that it was much harder than the practice test.</p>

<p>MUCH harder than the 2008 and 2007 one. </p>

<p>i thought the practice book actually WAS the 2008 test? idk… i just remember doing the exact same questions and that exact same word “draconian” appearing in the test.
anyway the practice test was ridiculously easy compared to today’s test.</p>

<p>cut off for my state is like 221 or w/e ugh
i obviously wasn’t going to get that score and i wasn’t aiming to get higher than 221 anyway. so my doing bad on the test today isn’t that huge of a deal. i dont really care about my score… but still :/</p>

<p>I thought the latter CR section today was the hardest I’ve taken.</p>

<p>Silverturtle:
What dd you get for the one that was b/t disdain and resentment?
And also for the one where like it asked about the other points that could be possible so thaat the distance was from 3 units of X and 5 units of Y?</p>

<p>The math and writing were certainly easier than the 2008 testing. The CR section was harder, but I think I’ve improved since last year.</p>

<p>fresh101, I made a post about some questions in the large thread. </p>

<p>I put “resentment,” but I wasn’t sure. </p>

<p>For that math question I said “one” because I visualized a diamond. I might be wrong, however.</p>

<p>really? You’re prolly right tho…damn myselffff. I got like -3 on math already, according to ppl’s responses.</p>

<p>When i ordered the PSAT booklets from CB, i got 4 800’s on the math out the 6 booklets i had and the other two were like 760 and 720. But this test was hardest on the math of a PSAT test i’ve ever taken.</p>

<p>It definitely seemed harder. </p>

<p>what was the math one with xyz = negative integer?</p>

<p>I put disdain…</p>

<p>I put resentment but idk - there seems to be no consensus</p>

<p>Regarding the “resentment” vs. “disdain” question, I put resentment because disdain implies, at least to me, that they other boys thought themselves better than Hari. I don’t think that was the case; I think they were all on equal footing and they resented him for coming into their territory to take a share of their work.</p>

<p>back on topic…I didn’t really think CR was hard. Math was okay. Writing though…definitely harder than the Saturday SAT one. This time, I’m pretty sure I got 3-4 wrong.</p>