PSAT 2011 Saturday General Discussion

<p>I didn’t take it last year, so i don’t know how hard they are in comparison. OH YEAH are there any of you that are completing high school in 3 years, because I had not idea what to list as my grade!</p>

<p>oh and could someone please explain OP=5?!</p>

<p>what was the question?</p>

<p>wasnt OP just a radius?</p>

<p>@onetreehill ab was a diameter of the circle O and was length 10. OP was a radius of the circle, and therefore of length 5</p>

<p>i put nostalgia, because (even though u only had to look at those lines), the rest of the essay shows a kind of sadness/disappointment from moving away from the literature about garden. btw-that flipping question (weird sentence) reminded me of the scarlet letter so much</p>

<p>@fallpsat, IMO it can’t be nostalgia because there was never any garden literature. I don’t think they ever suggested that they were moving away from it if there never was any.</p>

<p>It’s 49 adults out of the room, not 50. it would be 50 adults left that would make 2%, you take out 50 adults you have 49. 1/49 is like 2.1%, 1/50 is 2.0%. No way it’s 50. 50 would be the answer if it was how many adults were left, but the question asked how many adults you had to take out.</p>

<p>yes they talked about how Thoreau had written on his garden once (something about growing beans or something) and then stopped and then he suggested that old writers would write books about gardening</p>

<p>and was it still a radius even though it was a slanted line? cuz i used a proportion to solve it (180/10)= (45/x) and i got 2.5 which was a choice…i feel like it cant be slanted ahhaa</p>

<p>@AKShockwave, it’s 50 out because that leaves 49 adults, and 1 child, making a total of 50 people, one child in fifty people is 2%, otherwise it would be 1 child in 51 people making some decimal answer. Collegeboard was trying to be tricky…</p>

<p>Redo:</p>

<p>Sorry, I think I got 3 wrong on math (1 omit). 6 wrong in reading, and 8 wrong in writing?</p>

<p>Also, can someone post the conversion charts so no one haav to constantly ask to predict the score? (:</p>

<p>thanks!</p>

<p>Oh, shoot, well I guess I’m not sure then, we need to come to a consensus on:
nostalgia vs wry disapproval and also “flipping a switch”.</p>

<p>@Dorkyelmo, on page 33.</p>

<p>Dang you’re right, and I originally had 50. Then I changed it because I got confused. That question was screwed up.</p>

<p>premed: I picked wry disapproval. Because he’s like “this is a bad idea” = DISAPPROVAL</p>

<p>I definitely agree on wry disapproval and “flipping” being incorrect.</p>

<p>Same here, I also picked the the flipping a switch was an error, the problem is that I’m a math guy, so I definitely shouldn’t be giving definitive answers. I’m think I’m right though because earlier in the day there was a consensus on both, and usually CC people know what they’re talking about, also I think it’s possible that since it’s been so long since the test we probably aren’t remembering everything right atm.</p>

<p>In addition wry disapproval means an expression of disgust, annoyance, or disappointment. This exactly characterizes the authors attitude…reading the answer choices when u reach bitter resentment u have to sense that this has some validity to it because he is definitely unhappy about what Thoreau said about gardens. But is he bitter and resentful? No.that’s too strong of a tone choice</p>

<p>Wistful nostalgia would suggest some sort of depression. Wistful means depressed sad melancholy. Does he ever have a tone of depression? No we can eliminate this answer</p>

<p>Could someone try to predict my score? Thanks.</p>

<p>CR- Missed 4 No omits.
Math- Missed 1 on the grid in.
Writing-Missed 5 No omits.</p>

<p>ok i get disapproval (more of a math person myself)</p>

<p>what about flipping and soulless (i put the longer “shoppers” one, E)?</p>

<p>also: any curve predictions for CR/W?</p>