PSAT 2011 Wednesday Answer Thread

<p>^That one had an answer. It should have been her and her husband, not she and her husband.</p>

<p>Its possible. Even if you don’t it just means study for your SAT and/or ACT a little harder. :)</p>

<p>Agreed, it is ‘her and her husband’.</p>

<p>@sunny.</p>

<p>Starting a sentence with “that” is fine. The answer was No error I believe.</p>

<p>The incorrect part in that sentence was “she”, because it is an object in the sentence, and thus should be “her”</p>

<p>Hopefully more of the list comes up. Using last year’s curve, I’m at 231 right now :D</p>

<p>For those who want a rough estimate of what your PSAT score will be/if you’re a NMSF, try using last year’s score table <a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/understanding-psat-nmsqt-scores.pdf[/url]”>http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/understanding-psat-nmsqt-scores.pdf&lt;/a&gt; (page 4) and then comparing it to the NMSF score. It’s not fool proof/exact, but it may give you a peace in mind (:</p>

<p>Thank you, flyinghigh.</p>

<p>Quick question, what if you missed only one problem in a section (just as an example? Wouldn’t that mean your score was top score - 1.25, would that round up or down to the nearest integer? Or would it not round?</p>

<p>Another CR vocab: I forgot the question, but the answers really came down to quixotic and pedestrian by poe. And the answer was pedestrian, I believe.</p>

<p>the error wasnt starting an error with “that” but the phrase, i think. it was like, “that who believe ___ is wrong, …” should have been “those who believe”</p>

<p>and the thieves/artwork one was wrong for D- had shrunken, not had the black market trend had shrunk.</p>

<p>If your raw score is .5 or higher, it rounds up.
so 32.5 or 32.75 goes to 33.
If it’s .25 or .0 then it rounds down
so 32.35 32.0 goes to 32.</p>

<p>I wish I knew that on the test. I would have guessed on my single blank writing question and on one of my two blank reading questions.</p>

<p>Statistically, I’d probably either get them right or it would round up.</p>

<p>@spkrap322 are you sure? i don’t think “the market had shrunken” is correct</p>

<p>Currently at a 225, according to last year’s curves. Let’s hope I didn’t make any stupid mistakes I’m forgetting :)</p>

<p>@Kamnn1 (sorry if I got your user wrong) My friends and I were arguing A LOT on that one during school today. It came down to “That”, “has shrunken”, and no error. I’m hoping for that question to be omitted, but the reasoning people had for choosing “has shrunken” as the error was that the tense didn’t match the other verb earlier in the sentence which was like “stolen” or something similar. I honestly don’t think that anyone can say 100% they’re absolutely positive about their choice and prove the others wrong.</p>

<p>why is the odd painting infrequent?</p>

<p>So far I’m thinking I got two wrong on math, one wrong on reading, one wrong on writing, two skipped on reading, one skipped on writing. That would be a 221. I’m not even sure if I did get a reading question wrong, but I’m holding some tiny room for error there.</p>

<p>Flyinghigh, what do you mean for the question to be omitted? I don’t know much at all about the PSAT scoring process.</p>

<p>I put eccentric for the “Odd” painting one… am i wrong?</p>

<p>I think I missed/skipped 3-4 math, 4 CR and 1 Writing. Is that good enough for a 215?
For some reason I had a difficult time with the 3 circles with multiple of 3 and 10-100 so I skipped but now I realize it is 28, need better time managment</p>

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<p>What? I don’t understand this one …</p>

<p>@Override
Omitting=skipping</p>

<p>@bart
Yeah. It was infrequent.</p>

<p>@Sarcasm
Missing and Skipping are two different things. How many did you miss and how many did you skip? You can use last year’s curves to generalize your score.</p>

<p>@Ice
The other answers didn’t make sense. They were refuted by information from the passage. At least, that’s what I thought.</p>