PSAT 2011 Wednesday Answer Thread

<p>So far, here's what CC has:</p>

<p>Critical Reading:
Scientists failing: deplorable
Extraterrestrial tone question: Passionate
What could be added to the 2nd paragraph (readymade):
Retraction vs. Concession: Concession
Elitist and shortsighted vs. arrogant and vindictive: elitist and shortsighted
Library fostered “unfettered” thought
Slippery: Unreliable
Broach: Bring up
“Between”: Emphasize a different meaning to a previously used word
Simile and Personification, no Understatement
Odd meant infrequent (odd painting)
Serious meant considerable (had some serious literary sleuthing to do)
Sister’s actions were unfortunate by understandable
Tape recorder signified difference in Mo’s and Duncan’s students
Mo’s teaching style was arrogant
Mo was mocking Duncan
Mo was trying to limit Duncan’s ability as a teacher
The buff class leader was embarrassed because he was asking the class’s request
Paragraph 6 expanded on a comparison in paragraph 5 (wuthering heights passage)
2 short passages described urban sprawl as “homogeneous”
Vocab question: Flamboyant, not elephantine </p>

<p>Math:
Parallelogram: 20*68 (1360)
Arithmetic mean with a<b<c, b = 20, answer should have been 35.
Distance between the two points: .9
Car at 50 mph: 7.2 minutes
Venn diagram (10-100, inclusive, multiples of three, not perfect squares): 28
The question about k: k/2k-n
Isosceles triangle max length: 11
Equilateral and Isosceles triangle: x=15</p>

<p>Writing:
Governments/violate question: error in “it violates”, should be “they violate”
Caesar salad question: “But”
Prohibit “from”
Parliament question: should have been “For those who”
Security company question about choosing a password should have been “you should not”
Thieves artwork one: No error
Two no errors: Thieves, yoyo maker.</p>

<p>Thoughts?</p>

<p>Value of x was 15 degrees, when x was the angle between the equilateral triangle and the right-isosceles triangle’s legs. This is because the equilateral was 60 degrees and the isosceles was 90 degrees. Difference is 30 degrees, there were two spots though so answer is 30/2.</p>

<p>Unrelated: If I got three wrong and left three blank, is it still possible to get 212+?
PM me please.</p>

<p>I thought it was flamboyant, not elephantine? I could be wrong</p>

<p>My thoughts were the same as msteiny, I believed it to be flamboyant.</p>

<p>^Fixed 10char</p>

<p>I thought mo was pompous not arrogant.</p>

<p>Was pompous an answer choice?</p>

<p>wasn’t Moe’s teaching style pompous, or was the there no pompous answer choice and instead there was only arrogant??</p>

<p>Pompous was a choice, and that’s what I put.</p>

<p>There was definitely a ‘pompous’ answer choice for form W. Not sure if PSAT has different forms for the normal test, this is my first time taking it and I didn’t know much about it. Its the reason why I signed up on here actually.</p>

<p>Also I think the thieves stealing artwork and the black market ‘had shrunk’ was supposed to be ‘had shrunken’, thus the answer was D not E. Anyone confirm?</p>

<p>^Consensus so far was that the thieves one was a “No Error”.</p>

<p>If there was pompous, the answer was pompous. I put either pompous or arrogant, and if pompous was an answer choice, I put pompous.</p>

<p>someone please explain to me the “mocking” (Mo) and infrequent (odd painting)</p>

<p>Isosceles is definitely 22. 1+1+22=24.
Odd also meant dissimilar in this case.</p>

<p>which section do you guys think is going to have the biggest curve?</p>

<p>The Mo one is definitely pompous.</p>

<p>Thanks Aj39vn23cf2, this is great.</p>

<p>It was mocking because when Duncan suggested that Mo sing, he said something about it being a kind suggestion, and Mo was mocking him by making sure to work kind into every statement. I don’t think that explains it too well, but does to some degree.</p>

<p>Try drawing an isosceles triangle with a side of 22 and two sides of 1. It’s impossible. The answer is 11, I believe. </p>

<p>And “odd” meant infrequent I believe. “The odd drawing.” I don’t believe she made one eccentric drawing. I think the author was referring to a drawing that would be discovered one and a while (infrequently)</p>

<p>Did anyone get the first grid in? The one with the two equations and you had to find z? I put 6, but someone said that was wrong?</p>

<p>^No. Three-side rule, or whatever it’s called. Any two sides must add up to be greater than the third. Therefore, all isosceles triangles must have two equal sides that are larger than the third side.</p>

<p>Odd meant infrequent because it was in a list of things (“Four diary papers, some letters, the odd painting”) which made it mean ‘infrequent’. </p>

<p>Mo was mocking him at the end when he said “kindly” all the time. He was mocking him by being excessively polite.</p>