OFFICIAL saturday PSAT discussion

Test Preparation
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<p>i also got 122 for an answer.</p>

<p>some other ones i remember are:
-1.06 for a question about sales tax
-(a)(a+6)
-99 for some answer in the gridins
-.25 in the gridins
-108 in the gridins
-6x -3 = 9 for the question about monday, tuesday and wednesday.
-2r-10t=50</p>

<p>anyone else get these answers?</p>

<p>Also, what did people put for the question about albrecht durer in the writing section?..i was debating between A and B (A was as is, and B was something with the phrase "in his eyes"). I put A.</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>i got owned by the writing. holy crap that's gonna drag down my selection index soo much. does anyone known the answer for the one about grassroots movemnet and how every action needs a political declaration. i think it was the 3rd question the the last verybal section. also did everyone put caustic and vitriolic for #8 in the first verbal section?</p>

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<p>yea, i put down caustic and vitriolic as well. did anyone get the answer to the problem with the two overlapping triangles?</p>

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<p>i put manifesto for the grassroots one</p>

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<p>yes thats what i put. i think laconic meant slovenly though. its almost liek the opposite of one another. there was a question with 2 overlapping triangles?</p>

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<p>99 was the one where you had to add up all the integers (even/odd/etc) from 1-49, 2-50, 1-48...yeah. I remember all of them except .25, and 122. I believe I had durer as is.</p>

<p>Triangle one was rad3 over four. </p>

<p>Hey, did you like that one with the two equilateral triangles? Only one that took some extra thought...</p>

<p>Manifesto is right - that's EXACTLY what a manifesto is.</p>

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<p>triangle is split up into 2 equal triangles. The base of one triangle is .5, the hypotenuse is 1.</p>

<p>a^2 + b^2 = c^2
.5^2 + x^2 = 1^2
.25 + x^2 = 1
x^2 = .75
x = rad3</p>

<p>rad3 * the base of .5 is rad3/2</p>

<p>I put down manifesto for the grassroots one, but for the vitriolic / caustic one I put bitter/patronizing</p>

<p>I forget my answer for the Durer question</p>

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<p>btw in the second verabl section, the passage on the house and paint, what was the reason for the word interpretation? i said it was to critisixe the landlord but that seems a little to extreme on an PSAT question. also what did you guys put for the one with the spanish writer and why she was 'mapping a country'. i said ti was because she wasnted to show her own unique sensibility.</p>

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<p>i got .25 for the one with circles A and B and the radius/diameter PQ...i could be wrong though</p>

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<p>dwerbowy: Laconic means "terse," which was the answer (I got that wrong too).
The answer to the overlapping triangles question was 9 (one had sides of length 30 and the other 27, so 3(30)-3(27) = 9). I also put caustic and vitriolic.</p>

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<p>you are right luckyduckythesr. i also got .25 for the circle question</p>

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<p>i also put something about the authors unique sensibility. for the one about the word interpretation i said that it poked fun at Max's willingness to repaint the house.</p>

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<p>bah. these PSAT's rocked me. i hope i got lucky on writing...
but i put bitter/patrionizing as well
but then again, vitriolic does mean caustic...i dunno. i feel stupid.</p>

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<p>Gridins, in this order:
10, 108, 8, 650, 1.4 (or something close to that), 9, 12, 99, 1.06, 1/4</p>

<p>Also, #19: the answer's a(a+6)
and unluckycharms is right- (sqrt3)/4 is right for the triangle</p>

<p>dwerbowy- For the interpretation question, I put "to show how the father couldn't understand the terms of a simple agreement". But I agree with you on the unique sensibility question.</p>

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<p>"and unluckycharms is right- (sqrt3)/4 is right for the triangle"</p>

<p>I said it was (sqrt3)/2, lol.</p>

<p>I got all the gridins except for 1/4, which I stupidly put as 4 because I mixed them up.</p>

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<p>for the passage about the Dominican Republic, i got that the Dominican author was a "literary authority who critiqued the author". I was really confused on that question...anyone else?</p>

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<p>i wasn't that confused put the same answer as you authority critiques author...was the narration presented in a form of imagined retort to public something.</p>

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<p>yeah I said the same thing, she was a literary authority that critiqued the author. what was the first math gridin? i think i remember putting 9 and not 10.</p>

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<p>hey am000, i got a literary authority who critiqued the author too. That question kinda threw me off.</p>

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<p>What were the subjects of your critical reading passages ?</p>