<p>Was the 2nd to last grid-in choice B? I know it’s 1/5, but i’m wondering if 1/5 was choice B or not. Because I randomly guessed at the last second, and don’t remember what I picked ;)</p>
<p>^^^It was 13/6.</p>
<p>…no, i mean the one with the ysqrt=5x or whatever it was. Was it B?</p>
<p>^for that one, I’m not sure what B was, but I got 1/5</p>
<p>hey for one of the sentence completions, did we all agree on apocryphal as the answer?
& does anyone know what letter that was? haha</p>
<p>^Apocryphal was right, and was choice E.</p>
<p>was 5/7 choice D?</p>
<p>I missed the super easy 2nd to last grid in about the combination. I didn’t read it carefully enough and thought you could only use letters once, so I did 26x25x10 instead of 26x26x10</p>
<p>Ughhhh. </p>
<p>Also, I thought the writing section was super hard? I took the practice last night and finished way before 30 minutes, and got 1 wrong, and today… I rushed my last 10 answers and also guessed on a lot… life sucks. hhaha</p>
<p>Hey, what did people get for the one about renting games from two stores?
For one, there was an annual membership fee of $30 and then an additional $3 for each game?
and then for the other store, each game was …$something?
Ring a bell, anyone? </p>
<p>I remember plugging in 11, and I think it worked – hoping that I didn’t make a silly error.
So i put 10 < n < 20
or something.
I think other choices were:
n = 20
n > 20
n < 10
…</p>
<p>EDIT: nevermind. although i meant to plug in 11, i plugged in 1 by accident. ■■■.
i was doing fine on practice tests… D<</p>
<p>classicgirll:
I got n>20</p>
<p>I actually still have the equations, y=6x and y=3x + 60 I think.
I hopefully got the right answer, unless I read it wrong</p>
<p>Alright, so it seems the majority of these questions came from the 2007 November SAT. Answers from that thread with the irrelevent answers removed (<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/413078-nov-3-sat-version-1-nature-brain-hexagon-28.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/413078-nov-3-sat-version-1-nature-brain-hexagon-28.html</a>)</p>
<p>Critical Reading
- Mexican Girl Marta who asked for her father’s permission to go to HS…
. Resignation when he talked with the fisherman
. Father is sociable-reserved
. Final sentence makes story significant by showing Marta fulfilled her promise
. Earnest when asking father initially to go to school
. Urgency = fear that she lost attention of her father</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Mini-Pair on advertising on the internet versus advertising on TV
. Passage 1’s quote is to bring up a relevant research finding
. Both passages deal with the strategic placement of ads
. Second passage shows people avoiding ads
. Passage 1 would learn from passage 2 by not placing internet ads on unpopular websites</p></li>
<li><p>One Paragraph about the writing of Chesnutt
. The quotations (he was “fresh” and “vivid”) are typical reactions of Chesnutt’s contemporaries
. The figurative language (ie like an wit like an ax) was forceful and penetrating</p></li>
<li><p>Passage about the adversarial nature of US justice system
. European courts = prevent manipulation of facts
. Critic said that people would lose confidence in societal institutions
. Claim = assertion
. Author feels that American courts = problematic practice
. Passage is best described as a criticism against the American legal system
. New York District of Appeals and DC = attempted to reduce the severity of the problem
. Ideal court system would uncover the truth and not focus on winning lawsuits</p></li>
<li><p>Paired Passage about the nature of the human brain
. Take = outlook (a modern outlook)
. Two authors both felt dualism was “appealing but inaccurate”
. Ending sentences = cautionary v. stirring
. Copernicus = humans’ place in the universe
. Growing up = realization based on scientific findings
. Something about humans thinking that their brain = overemphasize their distinctiveness in the universe
. Special = exceptional
. Genome free of bodies = dualism of mind/body
. First author was sympathetic to Descartes (he was very human)
. The awe and wonder about the mind is not dependent on Descartes’ view of dualism — last sentence</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Sentence Completions - Complete!
- Guy on the cover of Time Magazine was RECOGNIZED for his GROUNDBREAKING work.
- Indefatigable = SLEEP
- Nothing affects her = PLACID
- Teachers/students = COMMENDABLE/EXEMPLARY i think those were the choices
- Blood pressure = IMPAIR/MINIMIZE
- APOCRYPHAL because the writing was of dubious authenticity
- CURTAIL - I believe because of a lack of funds
- INDIGENOUS
- ADVOCATES…CRITICS
- FOREBODING … ELATION (answer called for a pair of antonyms. SC had to do with a person who moved from one place to another)
- George Eliot did a PROFOUND analysis
- COMPARATIVE … ABSOLUTE (had to do with the concept of best seller)</p>
<p>Writing
. Were we to change = correct — currently under debate
. Diction error = insure — assure</p>
<p>Math
. 50th day after sunday = Monday lolololoollo
. Sum of x + y +z = 13/6 of x
. Average of the 30 numbers = 9.1
. Antifreeze = 40% graph interp lol
. ABCD with rectangle and two congruent triangles = area of 25
. Length of rectangle with length 3x and width x in yards = 315
. Most common price = $4.50
. 2 points where abs (g(x)) > f(x)
. 0.N and 0.M5 — sum = 7
. 5 integers sum to 100, smallest = 10, largest = 54
. Adding square and triangle gives area of 21
. 2 hours distance = 4a + 8
. Number between .3 and .4 = .35
. x < root (x^2+1) < root x + 1</p>
<p>For the question in the CR section with the dual passages on brain dualism with the answer of humans’ place in the universe, was it one of the latter choices, like D or E?</p>
<p>Was that answer A??
^
the question about the y = xsqrt(5)…</p>
<p>Going back to the “best” versus “better” discussion on the Japanese anime sentence correction question and the fact that no consensus has emerged here, I would urge all interested parties to send an email to ETS to complain about the ambiguity of this question. It is amazing that a question that ambiguous could make it on to the PSAT. We are allowed to challenge the ambiguity of this question and page 6 of the Official Student Guide to PSAT says that one may write to:</p>
<p>Assessment Development, P.O. Box 6656, Princeton, NJ 08541-6656 or send an email to <a href="mailto:cbcanding@ets.org">cbcanding@ets.org</a></p>
<p>I strongly believe the question should either be tossed or more than one answer be credited as correct.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Correct email address to write to ETS about question ambiguity is <a href="mailto:cbcandinq@ets.org">cbcandinq@ets.org</a></p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Will emailing them help our scores? :D</p>
<p>Can we tell them about the impair/minimize one too?</p>
<p>Also, I’d be wary to mention anything about discussing with other people and not reaching a consensus. :)</p>
<p>This is not 100% dispositive, but question # 18 on page 776 of The Official SAT Study Guide (2nd Edition) reads “Though best known as a jazz vocalist, he also enjoyed gospel music, whereby he told his manager that he wanted to make a recording of his favorite gospel songs.” Answer choices for the errors were: a) best known; b) also enjoyed; c) whereby; d) recording of; e) No error. The correct answer is given as c; in this question, “best known” was obviously not viewed as incorrect by College Board/ETS in this comparative context (jazz vs. gospel) or there would have been two errors in the question. Gives support to those who chose “No error” on the question on the PSAT involving Kyoko Kishida.</p>
<p>"While Ms. Kishida appeared in other films, including Mr. Teshigaharas Rikyu, she was best known in Japan for her voice-over work in animated films and television cartoons, including the long-running series Moomin.</p>
<p>Looks like “best known” will be viewed as correct usage by ETS, with “no error” the correct answer.</p>
<p>
There was no way this question was ambiguous. Impair/minimize was by far the best answer.</p>
<p>Wait? what? the questions for this psat came from another SAT test? couldn’t people have done that as a practice? do they do that every year?</p>