Official Wednesday PSAT Discussion

Test Preparation
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<p>Drbond:
yo guys, can anyone tell me wut score i would get if i get say 2 wrong math, 4 wrong writing, and 4 wrong english?? thanks a million</p>

<p>Assuming you didn't omit anything, you'd get a 77 in math, a 75 in writing and English, with a combined score of 227.</p>

<p>Argh... I know my score is miles away from 227. I wish it was that!</p>

<p>I completely missed that x<y (xy^3...) question... I put x<z. It made sense to me during the test!</p>

<p>So obvious, how could I miss it?</p>

<p>Oh, that Adams kids (something about lunches?) question boggled me. I put 2, anyone else? I changed it from 6. </p>

<p>The triangle (4x), I got 3. I didn't guess.</p>

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<p>I just realized my mistake on the circles one....what was the Question for the 4x one?</p>

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<p>yea, i want to know that too</p>

<p>can you cancel psat scores?</p>

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<p>I got 2 for the lunch of adam's kids thing, too!</p>

<p>Could you please elaborate on the 4x triangle question? I have no idea what the question is.</p>

<p>I got transformative for the japanese who got relocated to chicago.</p>

<p>17 circles (the left-over 2 makes another circle, so 16.333 --> 17)</p>

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<p>I got 2 as well for the lunch problem. I have tried to work it out since and I can't seem to find any other combinations.</p>

<p>For the triangle problem, it's probably easiest to just find the area of the rectangle in terms of x, and subtract 1 from it to get the area of the unshaded region. Solve for x using one of the triangles, and then plug that into your first equation to get the answer.</p>

<p>I put that the Polish knight problem was no error, although C looked very appealing at the time (C was "there," and I wasn't sure if that was ambiguous or not).</p>

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<p>Since the figure was drawn to scale, I just guessed 2. It was the only one that looked like it could work :)</p>

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<p>how do we cancel psats, is the process similar to cancelling SAT's?
i dont want to see my score, i kno its low</p>

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<p>For the 4x question, it was this rectangle that was 3x by 4x= 12x area. I did the .5base*height thing to find the area of the shaded region in terms of x, and solved it by using a proportion.</p>

<p>I think I forgot to subtract the shaded area in terms of x from the total in terms of x, so I might've missed that one too...</p>

<p>That's two questions down the hole. The highest I can hope for now is a 77!</p>

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<p>the unshaded area answer was 2, right?</p>

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<p>I think all I missed was a grid-in on math, omitted 4 and missed around 3 on verbal, and maybe missed 4 on the writing section. What do you guys think my score is?</p>

<p>"the unshaded area answer was 2, right?"</p>

<p>Pretty sure, yes</p>

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<p>I don't think i missed any on writing, but i have already counted three that i missed in math, and that number will probably grow a bit. CR should be ~70.</p>

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<p>Let's discuss more questions and answers!!!</p>

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<p>How did you do the last math one? What was the question? IAll I remember is getting 1/15 or something as the answer.</p>

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<p>I got two for the unshaded region. The shaded region = 1 and in terms of x, was 4X^2. The total area of the rectange was 12X^2. Thus, the total area was three times 4X^2 or 3 times 1 = 3. Then by subtracting 1, for the area of the shaded region, one could find the answer to be 2. </p>

<p>I got two for the green marble question. </p>

<p>I got 64 for (a-8)(b+8) = 0 since one had to be 8 while the other could be any other value. By making a=8 and b= 0, the answer becomes 64+0=0. I think this is correct. </p>

<p>I also got 17 for the circles. </p>

<p>For the shortest distance , my answer was 18-13.4 or 4.6.</p>

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<p>can someone share more about the "short story" answers on the writing section; i think my last three asnwers were E, D, B. please confirm.</p>

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<p>Did anyone else get C for a LOT of the answers on the Writing part?</p>

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<p>I ended up with MANY Cs. Cs were mostly verbs.</p>

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<p>i think i'll get like a 60 combined for this thing, i think i failed every section</p>

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<p>For the shortest distance , my answer was 18-13.4 or 4.6. ??? i did the pythagoream thm.....
how did u get 2 for the marble one?</p>

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<p>I also forgot to subtract the area of the shaded area. Was the Carbonville-Nearburg question really that simple? Man, I can't think during those things. I set up a right triangle and solved for the missing side and got 12.01. I assumed this was correct because of the unusual town name of Carbonville and the answer, 12.01, which corresponds to the molar mass of Carbon.</p>