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<p>Ok..Just took the PSAT...Nah..it wasn't so hard...just the reading I think I screwed up pretty well..screwed up as in missed between 5-10 questions (ill update it when we get our scores back)....think I got 80 in math....dunno about writing..possibly -1 or -2...Guys..can someone pinpoint me to a great book that has a great approach to the critical reading? I always feel like I'm assuming answers based on the paragraph....then i get the test back and i reread the passage i feel really really dumb...I just need a really good approach..the approach from testmasters is terrible..they're like...don't skim the passage..go straight the questions and go to the lines mentioned in the question and read about 5 lines up and 5 lines down..and I'm thinking.. whaa??? how're u gonna understand that little part if you don't even know what the whole passage is about? so if any of u guys can give me a really good approach (plz link me to a thread on collegeboard if u thinki it's really good)..or even a book..or BOTH!! that'll be great..Vocabs...I got that DOWN!!! </p>

<p>Summary:guesses these are
PSAT math=80
PSAT writing-80
PSAT reading= uber fail.
Total= somewhere between 210-250</p>

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<p>oh yeah…and also…How long’s the embargo? i got tons of beans (questions and answers) to spill over the PSAT test. October 13th one. Form W.</p>

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<p>Is it particularly hard or no?</p>

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<p>Don’t think you got 250 ;)</p>

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<p>wasn’t sure about some of the CR questions, i left two CR questions blank and that’s it :confused: math wasn’t too hard, but when can we start discussing the questions?</p>

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<p>I bet a friend I got 240. One or two of the CR questions were tough and I guarantee that they tripped up a lot of the average people. Besides that, easiest thing I’ve ever done.</p>

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<p>when can we discuss specific questions? i had like 3 writing questions that i wasn’t sure of. And I bombed CR, most likely.</p>

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<p>elgecko, if you bet someone you will get a 240 on the PSAT it is a good indicator that you won’t. I’m not even kidding.
Howwever, NM is likely unless you were just being a ******.</p>

<p>As for the OP… how should you approach CR? Well, the first thing to do is to start reading. Best practice ever. Make it a point to go to the library at least once a month and check out at least three books: a non-fiction book, a book from the reading-list/classics section, and a book of your choice. Vary the difficulties and topics so you familiarize yourself. Also, try your hand at reading the newspaper.</p>

<p>Once you’ve done that, the best approach to take is POE. First elimination on CR questions comes from eliminating “extreme” answers. This will help you a lot. For example, answers with “never” are 90% of the time wrong (however, don’t be a drone that follows this rule to the letter - use your “critical” thinking). Then use POE to elimate the answers that the passage rules out. Finally, you will probably only have one answer, and at most two: pick the answer that the whole passage (if it is a general idea question) or the specific part (for those questions) supports. As for vocab, use POE by eliminating words that you know don’t work. Then use roots/simmiliar words to guess at the answer :).</p>

<p>Hope that helps,
National Merit Semifinalist</p>

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<p>THANKS!</p>

<p>and on the roots thing…i think it’s completely useless…why use that when I have Direct Hits AWESOME vocab lists? Pwnage!</p>

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<p>Trust me kiddo, know your roots. :)</p>

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<p>There was a question on the writing. I selected the very first option. It was asking something about spiders.</p>

<p>the question: deadliest among all the spiders in N Amer. is the black widow… rattlesnake…</p>

<p>I said that ‘deadliest among’ was wrong because I was thinking of the superlative form of deadly. What did you guys say?</p>

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<p>I put the rattlesnakes. Their venom isn’t deadlier than snakes; it’s deadlier than THE VENOM of the snakes.</p>

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<p>I’m 99% sure about that one. </p>

<p>It’s not the first one. It was D. It said “the venom is more poisonous than the rattlesnake.” (something like that). It should’ve been more poisonous than the venom of the rattle snake. It was supposed to be referring to the venom, but the sentence made it seem like it was comparing the venom of one snake to the actual snake.</p>

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<p>Maxilius1 is right. My brother just texted me and said that Direct Hits was amazing on today’s PSAT.</p>

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<p>That one was “rattlesnake” because it was comparing the snake’s venom to rattlesnakes, not rattlesnakes’ venom.</p>

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IMO DH wasn’t totally amazing today, but of course it helped me with some of the SC’s. I can remember the word APOCRYPHAL on top of my head.</p>

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<p>Math…
Remember the AA2 one?
How do you figure it out? I did 26X26X10
But I know it’s wrong, because it counts some things twice, right?
Otherwise I think I got most of them right. I also got the cube one wrong. with 3rd root of 10 X 3rd root of 10 X 3rd root of 10.
I only quadrupled 1 side instead of all 3…idiot.</p>

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<p>^ actually, 26<em>26</em>10 is correct, since you could repeat the letters.</p>

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<p>I know I got 2 or 3 grid-in math wrong and a few CR so far, but my W looks deadly good.</p>

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<p>Nice, Krazy! So I only got 1 wrong on the math, I think!</p>