<p>Hey guys, could you help me answer a question? I don’t know why it’s wrong.</p>
<p>“Its growing population and cultural DIVERSITY MAKES istanbul one of the most dynamic cities in the world”</p>
<p>Why would the correct answer be “diversity make” instead of “diversity makes”</p>
<p>Population and cultural diversity are two things, so “makes” should be “make.”
If X=population and Y=cultural diversity, then the sentence would be:</p>
<p>Its X and Y make Istanbul one of the most dynamic cities in the world.</p>
<p>It is “make” because the noun in plural-“growing population AND cultural diversity”</p>
<p>I still haven’t gotten mine! I got an email from CollegeBoard and ran to the mailbox… disappointed.</p>
<p>so… cutoff predictions? up or down from last year ? :P</p>
<p>ahh… I see. since there’s two things. darn, that one was tricky. oh well. I think the curve for writing this year was a bit harsh, so I’m guessing cutoffs will be a bit lower.</p>
<p>For those of you concerned about Commended Scholars:
It’s a national cutoff score, determined by your total score’s percentile (from my understanding, at least; I could be totally wrong about this whole thing, but this is what my ‘studies’ have lead me to believe). Usually, it’s been that all scores 96th percentile and up and have been Commended, which usually comes out to about a score of 201. </p>
<p>The asterik thing is non-sense in my opinion; I saw a friend of mine who also didn’t have an asterik despite her score being around a 168. But yeah, bottom line: if your score is 96th percentile and above a 201, you have a great shot at Commended status (unless we randomly as a whole destroyed all previous years and entirely skew the usually consistent data).</p>
<p>I feel like the cutoff will be harsher this year than last year…</p>
<p>why? 10char</p>
<p>Wow, it makes me so annoyed seeing how many people got their scores back! At my school, we don’t get them back until Jan. 27 (everyone else at schools near me are getting them back this week!) I went to my school’s counselor’s office to see if they would give me the online code. Apparently, they won’t because they want to “explain how to interpret your scores.” Um, I’m pretty sure they’re not hard to figure out…it’s infuriating!</p>
<p>Meanwhile, all my friends from out of my district got their scores, and surprise! All in the 230s. Dang…I’m so scared now!</p>
<p>@lilyy96
scores are available online without the access code on jan 15 
better than waiting until jan 27 yeah?</p>
<p>I’m fine with my score, but a little disappointed because I seemed to do better on the practice tests…sigh</p>
<p>Reading- 74 (missed 3 and i accidentally SKIPPED the last question, ARGHHHHHH)
Math- 80 (missed none)
Writing- 70 (missed 2, wow curve was really harsh :<)</p>
<p>Total of 224</p>
<p>Pretty sure I made NMSF i think</p>
<p>G’luck to people still getting scores! :D</p>
<p>yeah you definitely did</p>
<p>CR -0 80
M -2, -1 o 72
W -2 70</p>
<p>^The writing had such a hard curve and the math was tricky! Its a shame that my PSAT score is so much lower than my sat score!</p>
<p>222 D: will I make it for Cali?</p>
<p>kchang - yea, youll prob make it</p>