<p>The lunch bag question could be solved like this: there are three people, A, B and C, and the following configurations</p>
<h2>ABC</h2>
<p>ABC
ACB
BAC
BCA
CAB
CBA</p>
<p>Go through each column in every word and check if it matches the letter in the column at the top "ABC." If it does, cross it out. After you finish this process, you are left with 2.</p>
<p>What about that problem with the three parallel lines and the sum of the angles x and y? I put 90--is that right? I don't know basic geometry :P</p>
<p>orangecoat- it said the towns were separated by a straight line, but it never mentioned a right angle.</p>
<p>You're right. That Carbonville coincidence is weird though (or they planned it so that the people who got it wrong would see that, but it seems really unlikely)</p>
<p>90 is right for the transversal question--two 45's added together</p>
<p>yea, i failed critical reading, horribly</p>
<p>how can i CANCEL MY SCORES?</p>
<p>I think you had to mention it to your teacher right after the test was finished if you wanted to cancel your scores...I don't see why you would want to, though. It doesn't count for anything!</p>
<p>i added the two distances for the towns together, yea i kno, i'm really stupid</p>
<p>straight line would be the shortest distance, therefore, they must have all been on the same "line"</p>
<p>I think, unlike the curve of the easier practise bulletin PSAT, this curve shall be more generous, like maybe 80 80 78 77 75 73 71 70 68 67 67 or something....:) I wish!</p>
<p>wait...what curve?</p>
<p>i'm not going to get commended, i probably didnt even pass the 200 mark, damn mistakes</p>
<p>scarred for life..</p>
<p>Wow, altf4 take it easy, life isn't over. Just wait until December, like myself. I am uneasy, because I already have a plethora wrong, like 4-5 in math and around 10 in verbal, but life is not over, and I am faithful to get 200+ commended!</p>
<p>around 10+ in verbal, one-two omits
3+ wrong math, 2 were gridins
not sure about writing, but it was probably better than the critical reading sections</p>
<p>I LOST...</p>
<p>i didnt' kno my reading comprehension skills were so bad...</p>
<p>oh yea, groovy, there's a curve on this pSAT by a national scale, so ur final score is equated in comparison to everyone else's</p>
<p>In terms of the 80, 78, etc.? Or just the percentiles compared to everyone else?</p>
<p>Depends on how people do; it's descriptive statistics, they want to retain the normal bell curve. If it is scewed to the left then they will try to up the curve (i.e. 80 80 78 not 80 76 74). That's my theory...they want people to get 500s!!</p>
<p>okay, still kind of confused...but yeahhhhh</p>
<p>So it the consensus that the Carbonville question was 4.6. That is what I put but I was not sure if I missed something stating that the town was not on the same line. </p>
<p>I also thought that the angle question where 135 was given was 90 degrees. </p>
<p>Did anyone get 987 for the made up symbol question where it was X^Y - (x+Y). </p>
<p>And did anybody get 120 for one of the answers.r</p>
<p>Yeah I got 987 for the made up symbol question. I think I got 120 for the 3rd? math question with the fill in the box answer. I also think I got 2 answers of 20 for 2 of the fill in the box questions...</p>
<p>I got 3 for the green marble question (entire first row was one color, entire first column was red, hence the entire first row had to be red as well, then there had to be 6 or 8 blue because it had to shield the green from the red AND be even, so that leaves 3 or 2 green...did I miss something? probably so). I'm pretty sure I missed all the "hard" math questions because I just couldn't think (we took our tests in the cafeteria, and the lunch ladies kept cackling in the back and the bell kept ringing...oh well, I should've been better prepared). The grid-ins, I thought, were ALL pretty simple, though...watch, I bet I missed them all >:-|. Does anyone remember getting "cool indifference" for one of the verbal questions? That one seemed more opinion-based to me... UGH I have the ACT next Saturday, and I'll probably get my scores for that before my PSAT scores. I can't wait to see how (badly) I did!!</p>
<p>I got 987 and I think I wrote 120 for one question.</p>
<p>What about that set question, with the property a^2+a? That was {-1, 0} right? Looking at it now I'm not sure if each element is supposed to have that property, and 0 wouldn't ((-1)^2 + -1=0 but 0^2+0!=-1)</p>
<p>yea i got 120, 4.6, 987, 17 for da grid in stuff. hey guys, wut did u put for the question about the primary purpose of the historian essay? was it to defend a way of scholarship or sumtin?</p>