PSAT 2011 Wednesday General Discussion

<p>If it’s 12:58 pm in the Eastern Time Zone, then it is only 6:58 am in Hawaii. They have not begun their tests. [Time</a> Zone](<a href=“404 - File Not Found”>Time Zone)</p>

<p>For the last “No error” part of the writing section, I said it was A, “that”, but now think the answer was no error, even if it was the last question and last questions tend not to be no error.</p>

<p>For math, how did you guys find the area of the parallelogram? I ran out of time and filled in 2490 or whatever the product of the two sides was since it was grid-in.</p>

<p>For the one about the scientists screwing up, on the vocab part of the second CR, what did you guys put? I said it was deplorable but am unsure if it’s right.</p>

<p>Hoping for a 221, know I skipped three and missed two or three at least.</p>

<p>parallelogram answer I filled in 1360 (20*68)
I got deplorable</p>

<p>Is “for they who” grammatically correct? (We typically hear “for those”.)<br>
I wasn’t sure, but since I only had 2 e’s that section, I chose “No error” for “for they who etc.”</p>

<p>Writing one - 2nd to last one on sentence errors I think. It was something like “When the governments do something, something else, somthing else, it violates some law or something.” I put no error. Anyone else?</p>

<p>“When the GOVERNMENTS (plural subject),…, IT [singular] ← isn’t that the error?”
I also put “for those who”.</p>

<p>But it’s the act that violates the law, so even though it is better to say “they violate” I believe “It violates” also works</p>

<p>for they who is wrong - should be for those who</p>

<p>@noble6 - I put error for “it violates” because it referred to “governments” subject-verb agreement</p>

<p>“When governments censor press releases, they violate individual freedom.” <- This obviously wasn’t the question, but it’s about the same. When -plural subject-, act, -plural pronoun they-." Right?</p>

<p>Can we get more feedback on these two questions:</p>

<p>what was the tone of Passage 2 (Extraterrestrial Passage) compared to the first?</p>

<p>for the writing one at the end that was “What could be added to improve paragraph 2?”,</p>

<p>Also, for the one with the Mr. Mo an Duncan or w/e, does Mr. Mo’s way of talking after the whole discussion indicate that he is mocking Duncan’s courtesy?</p>

<p>tone: passionate
what could be added: what kinds of appeal… (E i think)</p>

<p>it was an explanation of how a readymade could be appealing</p>

<p>also, does anyone remember the question that had “retraction” and “concession” as options? I put concessions</p>

<p>I believe he was mocking Duncan, though it was hard to tell</p>

<p>I thought that because passage two was imploring people to do something and had some rhetorical questions or something to that effect, passage two was more passionate than the first. </p>

<p>I also thought the summary about critics fit in well about the middle of the second paragraph, or at least better than anything else did. The paragraph was about his readymade theory, the flaw he found in his theory, and the ending sentence was something about how in the end objects chosen because they are unappealing may end up appealing to people anyway. </p>

<p>Concessions.</p>

<p>But the first passage in the extraterrestrial section was quite passionate.</p>

<p>Also, I put E. How Readymades appeal as well, I don’t think a summary of the critics feelings was really necessary considering the critics feelings had been mentioned a lot throughout the passage.</p>

<p>I really hope the writing curve isn’t as bad as the one on the practice test…i mean honestly, miss 2 and get 73, that’s freakin crazy!</p>

<p>Does anybody else remember answering something with impudence in it?</p>

<p>It was “imprudent”, and yes, I put that also.</p>

<p>But how is it readymades can become appealing? I thought it would go something like this: “Readymade theory, how paintings are all readymade, critics response to theory, Duncans flaw in his reasoning.”</p>

<p>Oh! Short passage about urban sprawl: how passage 2 felt about passage 1 - elitist and shortsighted or arrogant and vindictive?</p>

<p>I think because the last sentence of the “readymade” essay was really abrupt, we chose “how a readymade may seem appealing”.
Elitist and shortsighted (“highbrow critics” criticized the sprawls in passage 2)</p>

<p>Also, did anyone else put concessions? (I was stuck between that and “hypothetical musing”. The author wasn’t exactly “conceding” to anything or acknowledging anything as true. But I wasn’t sure about hypothetical musing either)</p>

<p>I don’t really like either answer for that one about urban sprawls</p>