Psat Official Thread

<p>Math:</p>

<p>Area of quadrilateral (almost-a-triangle thingy in the grid) – 3.5</p>

<p>Train in the tunnel – 1200</p>

<p>Rst rectangle box– square root</p>

<p>Which one could be a triangle – 7,8,9</p>

<p>How many odd numbers – 125</p>

<p>How many students – 18</p>

<p>Ratio of the wheel- 7.5</p>

<p>What cant have a remainder of 5 – 5</p>

<p>Ecdf - e>d>c>f</p>

<p>Cost to mail the package – 2.5</p>

<p>F(K) G(K) – 0</p>

<p>Answer to a grid in – 6007</p>

<p>X-K – 0</p>

<p>Average - 280</p>

<p>T in terms of A - -14a</p>

<p>square root of x - 3 = 8 - 120</p>

<p>how many months had more than the previous month graph - 3</p>

<p>possible value of x that would make (x-2.73)(x-3.45) negative - 3, could be others</p>

<p>grid in - 9</p>

<p>what was the 620th digit in the sequence - 9</p>

<p>Critical Reading:</p>

<p>Sentence Completion:
Applause- tacit</p>

<p>Something about corporate people and profit – vaunted</p>

<p>Modern critic – its looking like most people think its incontrovertible/trouble </p>

<p>resilient</p>

<p>conspiratorial/innocuous?</p>

<p>Beach Short Passage:
Youthful adventurousness</p>

<p>Around the world Short Passage:
Authors attitude toward man - Indifferent/critical (so far it is split about 50/50)</p>

<p>Smooth - suave</p>

<p>Spanish Long Passage:
“hum” – constant presence</p>

<p>“expand” – spread</p>

<p>why was the author unfair to Spanish – one historical process to its spread</p>

<p>Robot Long Passage:
“mindchildren”- they were offspring and will surpass</p>

<p>Danish African Long Passage:
“raise” be put up for consideration</p>

<p>“exercise” use</p>

<p>pain in art with the quote from someone who knew her - transmuting the pain into art</p>

<p>which of the following best expresses the claim that Dinesen was a "great mythmaker”- Dinesen constructed a public identity as carefully as she constructed her stories</p>

<p>The parenthetical phrase - emphasize that Dinesen's life is not easily distinguished from the myth</p>

<p>phoenix – she was regenerated after a disappointment and became a successful artist</p>

<p>Fourth paragraph is unique because - is critical of Dinesen's character</p>

<p>The comment implies that - Dinesen's behavior cannot be evaluated in absolute moral terms</p>

<p>which best contrasts Dineson in Kenya and in Denmark - An awe-inspiring figure versus a contradictory individual</p>

<p>Genetically Modified Food Passages:
What would passage 2 say about the risks – acceptable or slight....this one is also split.....its looking like acceptable</p>

<p>Writing:</p>

<p>“John and I” – wrong, should be john and me.</p>

<p>“Indonesia jewels” – wrong, suspending should be suspended</p>

<p>“inspire” – wrong, should be “inspired by”, not “inspired from"</p>

<p>"visual to" - this one was about climbing a mountain and being able to see the city, but it was wrong because it said "visual to" instead of "visible"</p>

<p>
[quote]
visual=visible?</p>

<p>2nd to last identifying error

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<p>Yeah, I put that too. It's strange how everyone on this postis evading that question.</p>

<p>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</p>

<p>update.</p>

<p>does anyone remember any other writing questions?</p>

<p>WHAT DO people think the curve will be?
0,1,2,3,4, off on each section
My guess is
MATH - 80,77,73,71,69
CR - 80,80,79,77,75,73 (prob harsher thourhg)
Writing - 80,80,79,77,75</p>

<p>that looks reasonable mathwiz.</p>

<p>CR was pretty hard this year......writing might be a little harsher though....its hard to say</p>

<p>but will 1 wrong on writing be 800</p>

<p>What grid in was the answer 9 for?</p>

<p>i am not sure sorry.....someone posted that they had 9 for a grid in answer and i think i also had 9 so i put it up there....hopefully more people will remember more answers</p>

<p>HOW MANY E'S IN WRITING!~
and does any21 know the abcdef order of crit reading 1st sentence completion sec</p>

<p>“hum” – constant presence<--- darn i had that</p>

<p>its looking like 7 wrong for me in reading. :(</p>

<p>how many months had more than the previous month graph - 3... what was that question about??</p>

<p>it was for the question about </p>

<p>0<a<b<6<c<d</p>

<p>and you had to find the least value for d + a, i think</p>

<p>0<1<2<6<7<8</p>

<p>8+1=9</p>

<p>yeah, CR was pretty hard this time.</p>

<p>on the practice PSAT in the student packet thing i got 2 wrong in CR, and i missed only about 4 last year... so i was feeling pretty good.....but i think i got at least 6ish wrong this year.....</p>

<p>does anyone remember any more questions about artificial intelligence?</p>

<p>what does that hav 2 do w/ months tho</p>

<p>wbapwo, i kind of remember that one.</p>

<p>it was an easy question, it was maybe 5-10 questions in....</p>

<p>i think the girl was selling real estate and she sold houses in april, may, june, july, august, and september or something like that.</p>

<p>and the question was in how many months did she sell more houses than she did in the previous month or something like that.....and you just had to look at the graph and see where it increased and there were 3 months where it increased from the previous month</p>

<p>wbapwo, there was a question about how many months had an increase from the previous month (a graph was shown)...the answer to that was 3</p>

<p>There was on CR question about what the two passages over artificial intelligence thought of the word "poetry" that gave me a hard time ... but I don't remember the answers >.< Anyone remember?</p>

<p>@mathwiz: On the error correction part, I'm pretty sure I got 2 E's</p>

<p>it was their.
it referred to the peoples' faces.
their appearances changed as a result of changing masks...pretty sensible.</p>

<p>lucidity--</p>

<p>for that one i said that poetry was "superfluous"</p>