PSAT 2010 Wednesday General Discussion

<p>There is no consensus, yet. People are trying to choose between impair/minimize and aggravate/buttress.</p>

<p>@sandwichgirl aw darn i put 50 because I thought it didn’t have to be an integer. Oh well hopefull 1 wrong on math will be a 77+</p>

<p>It was either aggravate/buttress or impair/minimize.
I think it was probably impair/minimize, but others have said aggravate/buttress.</p>

<p>^^There really was no consensus, but the two that are being debated are aggravated/butresses and impaired/minimizes</p>

<p>Although I forgot the first word that pairs with quantifies/quantify, has it been generally agreed upon that it is now down to impair/minimize and aggravate/buttress?</p>

<p>BTW: impair/minimize is definitely the answer if that’s true.</p>

<p>^ Ugh. I didn’t even get either of those answers, I put increase/diminish which is probably wrong. </p>

<p>Dammmmnit the PSAT was easy but I forgot to time myself and I ended up leaving like 2 blank for the CR and one for the math… Overall, I think I pulled off around the mid-60’s in all three sections which totally sucks. </p>

<p>Did you guys get 9.1 for the one about the averages of list A and list B?
I think that’s what I put after adding the total of each list and dividing it by 30.
And what did you guys put for the one about the fishermen, where the Spanish guy, Tomas or something, looked down to his feet and said, If you want it? I put undermine the seriousness of the situation but I think that’s wrong… </p>

<p>And were apocryphal, affront, commendable and exemplary, and indigenuous some of the right answers? </p>

<p>Crap, I put eradicate for one of them but the correct answer is curtail, right?</p>

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Actually, I believe you’re right, sorry. Using ratios, the side length would be 4 times that of the other side length, the surface area would be 16 times that of the other face and the volume would be 64 times that of the other cube. 10X64= 640.</p>

<p>^^^Definitely agree with you on that one</p>

<p>I put aggravate/buttress just based off the fact that aggravate sounded better than impair in the first fill in the bank. And also I wasn’t certain as to what buttress meant but minimize just didn’t make sense to me in the context it was in.</p>

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<p>Yes the answer was 9.1. I am 100% positive about that one.</p>

<p>You most probably got the fishermen one wrong. Well at least to the best of my memory, I remember that I answered that question in a second (perhaps I read too fast and misread some details), and I got something about corroborating the previous statement… I don’t know…</p>

<p>And I believe you are right about the vocabulary.</p>

<p>And yes, from what I have gathered so far, curtail is indeed the right answer.</p>

<p>How does “aggravate the blood pressure REGULATION” make sense? If it were just blood pressure, it would make sense, but the regulation part changes it.</p>

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Impair was certainly better than aggravate in the first blank. >_>

It was “he qualified his previous statement”.</p>

<p>Does anyone remember the “-------, quantify/quantified” option on that science question?</p>

<p>That seemed more likely than the buttressed option. How could inconclusive evidence buttress something?</p>

<p>If anyone remembers the whole sentence, too, that would help.</p>

<p>Yup, i got 9.1 for the math one.</p>

<p>Also confirming 9.1 on the ‘average of 2 sets’ math question.</p>

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<p>That’s exactly what I’ve been trying to ask.</p>

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Oh yeah…I guess so…
I don’t want to think about this test anymore. I’ll find out in January -_-</p>

<p>Then again, how can something inconclusive ‘quantify’ the correlation? It needs to be shown to be lessened, because it contrasts the first half.</p>

<p>I continue to stand by impair/minimize.</p>

<p>On, I believe, the last CR passage (about the justice system), how did you all answer the question about the lawyers’ tone/reaction to her friends’ comments?</p>

<p>I initially put affronted and later changed to vindictive, and now I feel stupid. :frowning: -1 CR, I think.</p>

<p>Additionally, on the sentence completion question with canonical/apocryphal as optional answers… Was apocryphal correct?</p>

<p>Those are the only two I remember that bothered me.</p>

<p>Some scientists believed that continued exposure to music ____ blood pressure regulation, but other scientists were unable to prove it, suggesting that there was no evidence that ____ that correlation.</p>