PSAT 2011 Wednesday General Discussion

<p>yeah i messed up the answer is 28 not 27</p>

<p>Crap. Also did the math on the car one incorrectly.</p>

<p>Would like more clarification on: what could be added to the second paragraph, extraterrestrial tone question, the question about the thieves (I think the sentence was something like “That the group of thieves could not sell all of their stolen artwork indicated that the black market was declining.” I thought the error was in “was declining”, not “that” - shouldn’t it be “had declined”?), and the cylinder one.</p>

<p>Cylinder:
the question said that the SA of the side of the cylinder is 2pirh=70pi
simplify you get r<em>h=35, h=35/r
volume is pi</em>r^2<em>h in terms of r would be
pi r^2</em>35/r
the r’s and r^2 cancel
and you get
35pi
r
at least that’s what i got</p>

<p>Did any of you have trouble finishing any of the sections on time?</p>

<p>for the permafrost question where it was like, albeit permafrost, did you guys put receding?</p>

<p>^^That’s what I did for the cylinder question.</p>

<p>Permafrost was concession.</p>

<p>I finished all the sections on time and had time to check over my work.</p>

<p>I put receeding, but I’m not sure… also got 65 for a+c…</p>

<p>Was that the last answer choice? for the problem with the venn diagrams</p>

<p>some guy in my room finished +10 min early for every section and left the room after every section…
i put concession too none of the other choices made sense</p>

<p>how many no errors did you get?
The consensus in my school is 3, but I got 2.</p>

<p>Permafrost- concession
Car - 7.2 minutes
Venn - 28 (E)</p>

<p>what was the answer for the ‘tea party’ question? ‘for they who…’</p>

<p>i had 3 no error</p>

<p>Tea party error was “For they who”, it should have been “For those who”.</p>

<p>What was your third - yoyo maker, thieves, and what?</p>

<p>can someone explain permafrost – concession?</p>

<p>Think I did the Venn Diagram one wrong - I put 27 because I subtracted 9 (perfect square) as well… damn. I might have done the cylinder one wrong too; forgot to divide by 2? Well, this is bad now.</p>

<p>^ The sentence said something like (paraphrased) “They found evidence of water, albeit only permafrost, but it may signify extraterrestrial life.” The author says that water has been found, but CONCEDES that it is only a little.</p>

<p>Do you guys remember any of the sentence completions?</p>

<p>yoyo was no error, thieves was no error, and i can’t remember my third…may have been tea party</p>

<p>@adrey:
the scientists have found signs of water, ALBEIT in permafrost, so there might be life blalhahalha</p>

<p>To concede something is to admit its truth, usually after you have originally denied it or refused to admit that it may be true. An adverbial or adverbial clause of concession is one that says in effect, “Yes, even though A was true, B happened.”</p>

<p>albeit is the clue here</p>

<p>for the venn diagrams:
10-100, multiples of 3, not a square</p>

<p>12->99
99-12 = 87
87/3=29
29 + 1 = 30
30 - 2 = 28</p>

<p>minus 2 because 36 and 81 are squares</p>

<p>OH gotcha thanks jungah</p>

<p>“Finding water on mars, albeit in a permafrost state, raised hopes that there was life on mars.” The only two reasonable answer choices were concession and retraction. Retraction is completely voiding what you previously said (something that would never happen on an ETS test) and concession is saying basically “Yes, even though A is true, B happened.” In this case, it’s “We found water an, even though it was in a permafrost state, we still think there could be life on Mars.”</p>

<p>Lol, everyone googled the same website.</p>

<p>Would like more clarification on: what could be added to the second paragraph, extraterrestrial tone question, and the question about the thieves (I think the sentence was something like “That the group of thieves could not sell all of their stolen artwork indicated that the black market was declining.” I thought the error was in “was declining”, not “that” - shouldn’t it be “had declined”?). Was thieves no error?</p>