<p>Holy crap. That CR just blew me straight out of the water… Assuming everyone here is absolutely correct, I’ve already missed 4… Fail.</p>
<p>Btw, I did get passionate.</p>
<p>And @Harvard I put passionate because I didn’t know wth pretentious meant.</p>
<p>I put passionate because the second speaker was writing with much more verve. The thing about aliens coming to control us is in no way pretentious, as the second passage doesn’t even mention that the only life on Mars is bacteria. The author of the second passage simply made a logical progression of ideas.</p>
<p>I wish I remembered more of my answers ): I thought this years PSAT was harder than last years.</p>
<p>I believe it was passionate and does anyone know the question for the answer k/2k-n. I do not recall my answer and I believe looking at the question will help my memory</p>
<p>I know how you feel bro. I had it between shape and bring up. Looked up the definition and turns out that it means to bring up (subject). Luckily I put bring up but who knows what it meant in context of the passage.</p>
<p>Man I’m so mad about the isoc. triangle one…i put 1+1+24 or whatever the answer was…and as I put that answer down I was saying, “Oh no the two sides have to be greater than the one…” but I was in a super hurry so I rushed. </p>
<p>Also, the Mo and Duncan passage was possibly the hardest passage evar. Can’t really offer any advice there because I’m pretty skeptical of some of my answers.</p>
<p>I was fine on all the writing until I got to the Duchamp art passage. That one threw me off.</p>
<p>And I think I was at or near perfect for the Vocab/completion, but I certainly missed the gambit/bellicosity one, which I put g/b for. The correct one would be ruse/artifice, I did not recognize artifice as “trick”. Ruse/artifice would have been correct.</p>
<p>Oh and for the library thought one it was unfettered right? I specifically remember questioning that one but once again I didn’t have time. </p>
<p>sooo…</p>
<p>CR: ~46/48, no blanks
M: ~34/38, several blanks…this may kill me if there isn’t a nice curve
W: 38, maybe 39/39. There were a few sentences that I was iffy on and the final paragraph correction was a little odd.</p>
<p>Luckily I’m a sophomore…plenty of time to work on my math/vocab before next year. </p>
<p>Unrelated question but is there anyone here who took the actual SAT their sophomore year? If so do you recommend it or do you recommend taking it junior year instead? Thanks all.</p>
<p>DUDE. I put shape on the broach one… As in he was “shaping” the new teaching relationship between him and Mo.</p>
<p>Passionate v. Pretentious
Both authors were equally “passionate” about what they were talking about.
Pretentious means pompous-like/trying to appear more important. (i thought it was pretentious because the 2nd author seemed more outspoken than more politely spoken 1st author)</p>
<p>pretentious isn’t even a tone, so it doesn’t make sense as the answer…even if it was a tone, passionate was the much better answer.</p>
<p>chighgate-</p>
<p>I will second your opinion on pretentious. I also took that to mean a little “lofty” sounding if you get my meaning and I think passage 2 definitely fit that. He was cracking jokes and everything, snide comments, etc.</p>
<p>I’ll be happy if I made a 190, but I probably made even less than that.</p>
<p>Does anyone remember the answer to the very last Math question (the one that was like, a, a, b, c, c). I misread and thought it was only a, a, b, c.</p>
<p>It was 35 i think</p>
<p>It was 35.</p>
<p>And i still don’t think the answer to that passage was pretentious… Passionate made for a much more fitting answer.</p>
<p>Account- </p>
<p>I hardcore failed and put 70…I should have put 35 because it would be half of the 70 that a+a+c+c consists of. So I believe it was 35.</p>
<p>Can someone clarify the isocleles triangle one?
I thought that the sides had to be integers?</p>
<p>It was passionate because the author asked alot of questions and he seemed frustrated overall. The author was saying WHY in big capital letters. He wasnt acting pretentious about anything. He was mad at scientists who are wasting valuable money.</p>
<p>@mini1kim
perimeter = 24
isosceles triangle has 2 equal sides
11 * 2 = 22 The last side would have to be 2</p>
<p>Yeah I did that too 
I usually get 1~2 wrong but i got 4 this time… -__-</p>
<p>I know this is a silly question- but first one for the second reading section- was the answer channel?</p>