PSAT 2011 Wednesday Answer Thread

<p>Biboy: i agree with you on the thieves one. Has shrunk is grammatically wrong, it would have to be “had shrunk” or shrank or something.</p>

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<p>If you got those 11 CR questions incorrect, then you are looking at a 80, 80, and ~60. That’s ~220, which is high enough for most states. A 220 straddles the fence for NY though. </p>

<p>On the other hand, if you left all 11 blank, then your CR score would be somewhat better - a few points better.</p>

<p>Opaline, I think it was “showed”, not “shows”…</p>

<p>@Bio
Charles County. You?
You might be from another school, but I doubt that you’ll be from mine. I know every high achiever in my school and I’m pretty sure I’m the only one on CC.</p>

<p>I remember it being “shows” but, of course, I can’t guarantee that. ;)</p>

<p>Does anyone know what -2M -1R -3CR is?</p>

<p>Baltimore County here. sucks to be in the state with the highest cutoff right? GAHH :/</p>

<p>Oh, two other Marylanders!</p>

<p>Tell me about it. My goal is 225 and I’m stressing out right now. There are too many overachievers in MD…</p>

<p>I think it was option I, II, and III</p>

<p>x<y<0</p>

<p>so x and y are both negative, and a negative over negative is greater than zero.</p>

<p>You could think of that as a good thing perhaps. You were educated in a generally more intelligent state, at least according to the PSAT cutoff :p</p>

<p>Especially when you have borderline scores, haha.
Not my school. My school’s average AP score is 1.8…</p>

<p>YAY FOR MD. Not really… :P</p>

<p>Yeah I took the 2006 PSAT yesterday and got a 218. I got only one question wrong on math, which would have bumped my math score from a 76 to an 80. Thats 218 to 222, which would have made me a semi-finalist.</p>

<p>So scared now that 1 question could have made the difference… :o</p>

<p>I know what you mean. I got two questions wrong due to carelessness. If those two problems end up costing me the scholarship…</p>

<p>My 2010 PSAT score was 212, without prep. But math was my worst score range out of the three (at 64, compared to 73 R and 75 CR) and I’m terrified that I missed one or two questions and consequently dropped my score 8 points. X.X</p>

<p>does anyone know the cutoff line for PA?
or where to find it?</p>

<p>Overide same here bro. I got the Isosceles one wrong (IM SO DUMB) and the parallelogram one wrong…I had like a brain fart or something. I just couldn’t think on that one. If I lose $2000 and NMSF status because of that, I’m going to be so depressed… :(</p>

<p>its like 210</p>

<p>does anyone know if all the psat tests are the same? so will these questions appear on the PSAT on saturday?</p>

<p>@phoenix101 [National</a> Merit Scholarships](<a href=“http://www.collegeplanningsimplified.com/NationalMerit.html]National”>http://www.collegeplanningsimplified.com/NationalMerit.html) That has the cutoff for every state for the past like 4 or 5 years.</p>

<p>@houstonr Haha that will never happen. They may have similar content, but never the same questions. Too easy to cheat x)</p>

<p>You won’t really know the cutoff till the scores are computed and curve determined, historically it’s in the 210-219 range, closer to 212-15.</p>

<p>The cutoffs for this year are determined later, but last year’s cutoffs can be found here:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/national-merit-scholarships/1199607-national-merit-semifinalist-qualify-scores-class-2012-a-56.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/national-merit-scholarships/1199607-national-merit-semifinalist-qualify-scores-class-2012-a-56.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Generally, the MOST the cutoffs will move year by year is 3 points, either up or down.</p>