<p>@tylerfrenchfrye Second passage did support first, substantial was solid, merely was simply, impromptu, chronological narrative, had lain no error. </p>
<p>If anyone needs last years cutoff scores…</p>
<p><a href=“2014 National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Scores Released - Fairtest”>http://www.fairtest.org/NationalMeritQualifyingScores2014</a></p>
<p>Wait, what were the two questions for the inventions passage??</p>
<p>@tylerfrenchfrye so it is chronological narrative? Wait never mind!</p>
<p>That sucks :(</p>
<p>Also, what was the answer for the purpose of the computer skin passage?</p>
<p>@TheGreatCatsbyx I know one of them asked the relationship between the two, and the answer was passage 2 illustrates a concept in passage 1. The other one I believe the correct answer had something along the lines of inspired by the “same dynamic” or something. </p>
<p>Can someone jog my memory on the inventions passages? I can’t really remember which answer I put for the “illustrates” question, but I think I put “undermines”. Does anyone remember why that was so deceiving </p>
<p>@asutosh11, was the second one the question which people on CC were debating about? or was it the first one. Also, what did the second one specifically ask about? </p>
<p>The main question people had about that one was whether or not the second passage, the one with the lady in Africa making the grain mills, supported the first passage, which talked about desire vs. necessity. People were split between whether or not the two passages contrasted each other or if they supported each other. I asked college board this question, and they replied by saying that the test never asked whether or not 2nd passage supported/went against first. I’m not sure about the questions specifically, but the one I asked was about the relationship between the two. </p>
<p>@Asutosh11
I said the “had lain” question was no error, also. However, when there used to be a Google Doc, people said it had to do with lay vs lie, so “had lain” was incorrect. I’m not sure about this, but that question’s been bothering me these past several weeks.</p>
<p>I asked college board, and the answer key says it was E (no error) </p>
<p>@Newdle </p>
<p>It was no error. Some people wanted to say “had laid” would be correct since lain means recline, but something has to lay something else down for it to be laid.</p>
<p>For example</p>
<p>The man laid the brick down.</p>
<p>Go into Microsoft Word and type in</p>
<p>The book had lain untouched.</p>
<p>and</p>
<p>The book had laid untouched.</p>
<p>The laid will be underlined in green and the lain will not be. </p>
<p>OHHHHH YEAHHHHHHHHHH!@$!@#$!@#!@#!@ SEVERAL MONTHS PERTURBED BY A STUPID QUESTION… PEW PEW GONE.</p>
<p>^
Okay, I got a bit excited there. However, I don’t want to be a meanie and delete things I write, so… Yeah .___. I’m adding this post script to apologize–kinda. </p>
<p>Also, some people were talking about a prevented from vs prevented to… did that ever show up on the test? I only saw one idiom error, which was the women biker question (discouraged from vs discouraged of)</p>
<p>Anyone know when the scores come out for public schools in California?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Got my scores back… a measly 214 
(Will not qualify for NMSF in state)</p>
<p>@TheGreatCatsbyx Hi! Congrats on your score. In what state do you live, if you don’t mind me asking?</p>
<p>Massachusetts</p>
<p>@TheGreatCatsbyx Can you tell us the answers for some of these questions? Like whether the 2nd invention passage illustrated/undermined the first?</p>
<p>Keep in mind that the cutoff will likely be significantly lower than usual. Did you have to ask your teacher to give it to you or did they just hand it out?</p>