Official October 18, 2006 PSAT Discussion

<p>So how'd everyone do?</p>

<p>hey i have double time a reader and a bunch of things i could survive w/ it and i did all the questions in a time that wouldve been fine if i had no reader but my resource room teacher whos my proctor..is a horribly slow reader and he repeated a ton of things he didnt need to read and in the end i got ticked off...it took me 5 1/2 hours to do it and w/o the reader i couldve done it in the normal 3</p>

<p>Well, it was about how I expected. There was one evil math problem though, like a coordinate geometry one with a quadrilateral? I'm not sure how much the tests vary and if you guys would have had it, but trust me, it was EVIL.</p>

<p>the tests vary littlle, I think</p>

<p>in the sat subforum we were discussing the quadrilateral--some think 3, 3.5, 4, or 4.5</p>

<p>I did a drawing and would love to get anyone else's answers</p>

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<p>Bluemountaineer, the answer was 3.5.</p>

<p>did you guys have form W(If you did, was your answer for the last student response math question 7.5)?</p>

<p>yep, I had W and got 7.5. I think the problem was a wheel makes 3000 revolutions while traveling a distance of 45000pi inches. what's the radius of the wheel?</p>

<p>I got 3.5 for the quadrilateral one.. I made a rectangle and subtracted the areas of all the triangles which weren't part of the quad. </p>

<p>My answers for the grid ins were:
2.5
6007
9
120
18
3 (coulda been between like 2.73 and 3.45 i think)
280
125
7.5</p>

<p>I think I got mostly the same answers, eliz53</p>

<p>but what about the one that was ka^n=a^(n+1) ?</p>

<p>I believe that was it...anyways, I got 0 for that one and I'm 99% sure it's right because I plugged in five different numbers and got the same answer</p>

<p>Oh yeah.. I forgot to put i got 0 on that one as well :)</p>

<p>Yeah, 0 was the answer.</p>

<p>for the grid-in question that was (x-2.74?)(x-3.45), did it have to be a whole number, 3? i put 3.44. and people said it asked for integer, so i don't know. :(</p>

<p>also, there was a writing section question that was like (something of the sort)
The service that has increased in cost is _________ (some underlined thing that was definitely wrong).
wasn't it just
health care?</p>

<p>Does anyone know when we can find out our scores?</p>

<p>Edit-- I put health care. Idk if it was right.</p>

<p>I'm pretty sure you could have put any number that satisfied the answer range. Scores in early December.</p>

<p>jadore, you could have put any number :) </p>

<p>I also put "hospital care" cause all the other answers repeated what had been said</p>

<p>What about the one in the improving paragraphs? It had the word sidestepping. I combined the sentences into one.</p>

<p>3.44 should be fine, as far as I can remember they didn't say anything about whether it had to be a whole number or not</p>

<p>for the sidestep one i put A, which like (something like this i forget lol)</p>

<p>make her own business, to sidestep and create her own environment.</p>

<p>i was choosing between that and another that started a new setence with "Their"</p>

<p>On the sidestep one I choose the one that started a new sentence with "Their".</p>

<p>for the first grid in, i put 2.50 instead of 2.5. do you think they will regard this as a wrong answer?</p>

<p>Ya the grid ins were pretty easy.... some of the quad. questions were pretty tufffff</p>

<p>anyways.. there was a big discussion arguement over the train problem at my school</p>

<p>I insisted that it was 1200 meters because you have to subtract the length of the train...does anyone remember that question</p>