PSAT 2011 Wednesday Answer Thread

<p>@000ooo000ooo - Mo’s teaching was pompous. The passage mentions him pontificating, the definition of which is to “express one’s opinions in a way considered annoyingly pompous and dogmatic”</p>

<p>I MADE THE DUMBEST MISTAKE ON THE CYLINDER ONE OMG U GOTTA BE KIDDING ME. and just to make me feel better, the answer to one of the x<y<0 was 1 2 and 3 i believe</p>

<p>@000</p>

<p>I put “pompous”, too, I don’t think arrogant was even an answer choice. Most CCers are saying they put pompous.</p>

<p>i thought it was equivocal instead of deplorable. and for the class leader one i thought it was because he did not belong there (working for construction or something?)</p>

<p>I II and III wasn’t even a choice for me…</p>

<p>and are sure it was 28 for the triangle question? I put 27</p>

<p>@KaChow </p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

<p>@Aj39vn23cf2</p>

<p>No problem; just wanted to confirm.</p>

<p>i may not be talking about the right one, but i am positive one of the answers for a math question was 1 2 and 3</p>

<p>I thought it was showed</p>

<p>@omary, it was definitely deplorable and embarrassed because it was the class’s request</p>

<p>I think I’m going to stop worrying about it.</p>

<p>I can’t even really change anything at this point.</p>

<p>I might as well study for my SAT subject tests, the SAT, and my AP exams.</p>

<p>alright but why not equivocal?</p>

<p>Also, one of the questions not aforementioned (likely because it was easy I hope I don’t jinx myself lol) is the one with China and India. It had a graphic and was about internet or something…maybe someone will remember the numbers.</p>

<p>That’s impossible. The sum of any two sides of a triangle has to be greater than the third side. 1+1 =2, which is not greater than 22. The correct answer is 11.</p>

<p>Critical Reading:
Sentence Completions:
-Scientists failing: deplorable
-Library fostered “unfettered” thought
-Misanthropic<br>
-Ruses/artifice
-Flamboyant, not elephantine.
-Pedestrian
Mo and Duncan Passage
-Tape recorder signified difference in Mo’s and Duncan’s students
-Mo’s teaching style was pompous
-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
-Broach: Bring up</p>

<p>Extraterrestrial passages:
-Tone: Passionate
-Retraction vs. Concession: Concession</p>

<p>Bronte:
-Simile and Personification, not Understatement
-Slippery: Unreliable
-Odd meant infrequent (odd painting)
-Paragraph 6 expanded on a comparison in paragraph 5
-“Between”: Emphasize a different meaning to a previously used word
-Sister’s actions were unfortunate by understandable
-Serious meant considerable (had some serious literary sleuthing to do)
-Good look into personal life: private diary letters</p>

<p>Urban Sprawl passages:
-Elitist and shortsighted vs. arrogant and vindictive: elitist and shortsighted
-2 short passages described urban sprawl as “homogeneous”
-Quotation marks distanced the author from the aforementioned critics</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

  • -1<x<0 – lowest value is 1/(x^3)
    -Intersection of two linear equations, y=5.5
    -Golf tournament: 30
    -CDs to make the other job pay more: 134
    Students in 1994: 220
    x<y<0: I and III
    Isosceles triangle+square: 12x</p>

<p>Writing:
Sentence Errors:
-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 not choose”
-Eels have organs in their tail which (enables) <- error, should be enable
Should have been “her and her husband”, not “she and her husband”
-Two no errors: Thieves, yoyo maker.</p>

<p>Artist (readymade) passage:
-What could be added to the 2nd paragraph: How a readymade could become appealing</p>

<p>Was 10 one of the answer choices for the triangle one? just trying to refresh my memory</p>

<p>That the thieves failed to sell all of the stolen artwork they had smuggled out of Sicily shows that the market for stolen antiquities has shrunk.
This one has no error.</p>

<p>That the thieves failed to sell all of the stolen artwork they had smuggled out of Sicily showed that the market for stolen antiquities has shrunk.
This one should be had shrunk.</p>

<p>Which one was it?</p>

<p>@000ooo000ooo I think it was like 37 million? There was another math question who’s answer was 260000.</p>

<p>Someone please answer me!!!</p>

<p>Why wasn’t the student in the Mo/Duncan passage embarrassed because he was a bad student? It specifically said he wasn’t exactly the best.</p>

<p>it can’t be Mo trying to limit Duncan’s teaching ability, as that seems to be an assumption</p>