<p>I thought writing was kinda hard compared to the practice test. Maybe its just because I’m obsessing over the two or three I probably got wrong :-/</p>
<p>I don’t really know how I did on the writing section since so little questions are recorded and since it all feels a little bit ambiguous.</p>
<p>does anyone remember which ones were the no errors? The consensus seems to be that there were 2 no errors but anyone here recollect the sentences?</p>
<p>i give up… i most likely did not make it so w.e.</p>
<p>Sigh, I missed at least 5 on critical reading, probably (hopefully) 0 on math, and 1 to 2 on writing. That would mean I’d get ~220. If I missed one question in math, or more questions than I think I missed on CR/writing, then I won’t qualify National Merit :(</p>
<p>Sigh, some of those CR reading questions were tricky. The vocab was pretty difficult. And the Socrates passage… I can’t believe the answer is conciliatory. I put pretentious and even crossed out conciliatory in my test booklet. Man, I thought for sure the answer was pretentious. 
I hope there’s a generous curve on the CR reading section as some of those questions were especially difficult. The questions in the practice booklet were a ‘lot’ easier and very straight-forward (I only missed 3 and all 3 that I missed were due to my carelessness).</p>
<p>yeah i put munificent/rancor for the critic question
i think that would be right</p>
<p>also what did you guys get for the question asking about what is ironic or something?
was it the students/anti-social habits choice?</p>
<p>@GMABCD: What was the the critic question again? Was that the one with the word carping? I put “disparaging/charitable”.</p>
<p>Yeah it was the student one.</p>
<p>For the WR section, was one of them a comma splice? The one with “Blah blah blah women who won nobel prize blah blah, her invention proved useful for weaving blah blah.”? I selected “her” because I thought they wanted us to recognize the need for some sort of conjunction…</p>
<p>I believe “her” is correct. Without a conjunction at that spot there would be a run on sentence.</p>
<p>what was the answer to the writing question about like someone being impressed so another person did something?</p>
<p>I put something like “impressive enough to ___”
but people are saying “so impressed” ? idk</p>
<p>what would this be?
-6 CR (4 wrong 1 omit)
-0 M
-1 W</p>
<p>I’m hoping that I only got that much CR wrong but I feel like I got more wrong T-T
& hopefully I made no stupid mistakes in Math and Writing. ugh.
I need 220+ cause I live in california ):</p>
<p>What was the answer to the one about the founding fathers?</p>
<p>They “had hoped” that the new nation “could be”______ or “could have been ________”</p>
<p>@frootxloops, that would be around a 68 [CR] + 80 [M] + 75 [W] = 223
Of course, that’s in the worst case. Your score will probably be higher, considering that the critical reading and writing sections were a bit trickier this year therefore there probably will be a more generous curve for those sections. My predicted scores are similar to yours; I live in California too. I hope I make the cutoff! (which, more than likely, won’t be higher than 218).</p>
<p>The founding fathers question was “could be.”</p>
<p>^I concur.</p>
<p>Math, answers to the grid in:
7 (pizza)
12 (xy=24, x-y=12, x and y both pos. integers)
14 (2 right angles overlap, overall angle is 166 degrees, what is the overlap angle)
4500 (books on sale)
1/3 (area of triangle w/ base 1 and height 2/3)
2 (z=45x-60y, what is the smallest value x can be if z and y are both pos. integers)
3/7 (6n women and 8n men, probability of woman)
63 (y2 direct variation with (x+81), y2=k(x+81), y=5 and x=19 so k=.25, when y=6, x=63, k is constant)
5.5 (any decimal between 5 and 6, not inclusive. decimal/10 has to be between .5 and .6, not inclusive)
720 (photos)</p>
<p>Math multiple choice:
only equilateral triangle would be similar in all cases
intersection TWO times
30 for the circle chart (three circles overlapping each other like venn diagram, which students didn’t apply to college z)
2n+3 (was that an question)
9 (.30609, (3/10^1)+(6/10^3)+(9/10^5). 1+3+5 is 9)
12 for perimeter of triangle in circle (it was equilateral with sides=4)
V1 < V3 < v2 (volume of cylinders)
y=4 ((6,4) was the point, was a graph-coordinate question)
8:5 perimeter ratio (sides of pentagon and octagon are same, ratio of octagonentagon)
only two of the three choices of the parallel streets were correct
medical care (increases most in percentage)
3 rates are over constant rate (graph shows different slope segments and then a line of best fit or whatever, which slope segments are above the line shown)
(x+z)/y
$4000 min monthly income (annual income has to be 2.5 times less than 120000)
2k (first question on one of the math sections)
5/8 is btw ½ and ¾
at most 20 even integers in the set of 30 (18 multiples of 5, 10 of those are odd)
k=3 (a, 15, b, 135, each term equals previous term multiplied by k)
4 (y coordinate that appeared most frequently)
x=8 (x^2-y^2=15, x and y are both integers)</p>
<p>CR:
SC:
punctilious,
sanguine…improve (one about optimistic prediction for ailing economy),
cerebral/visceral,
disparaging/charitable
accelerating
verify…accuracy
reveal… understatement
support…cautionary (scientist who supported nuclear power)
severity (of the harsh winter/migration questions)
therapeutic
foreshadow ( about the female scientist who foreshadowed later scientists) </p>
<p>Indian parents:
feeling to fact,
impressive status (parents looming)
verbal representation of children’s perceptions, (MamaPapa)
indivisible entity (mama and papa)
slip=pass (slip them treats on the sly)
last paragraph elaborates on a point made earlier on (was that a question)</p>
<p>City passage
dramatic voice
homo urbanus=coined term for recent trend</p>
<p>TV passage
reality television has good qualities despite perceived flaws
reality television recognizes individuality instead of emphasizing individual failures
Passage one is talking about reality TV in the present times while passage two is talking about TV in the future.</p>
<p>Science/pseudoscience
science has had an unpredicted effect on laypersons
education in good manners result in antisocial kids</p>
<p>GM plants:
both authors would agree that activism has had an impact on the debate over GM plants
destroying credibility (woman uprooting plants)
courses through=runs through
passage one in the first paragraph is introducing the views and actions of an individual
passage two is criticizing the tactics on one group while passage one is elaborating on the actions and beliefs of an individual from that group
passage two views the actions of the anti-GM plants activists: disapproving
the quote at the end of passage one (free of contamination one) was to INCITE a response
first paragraph of the second passage was to show the context of the current state of affairs
first passage, unlike passage two, uses excessive quotation</p>
<p>Socrates:
surrounded by sympathizers,
last paragraph: how author will proceed
respecting tone
author was conciliatory
Socrates was steadfast to his beliefs
unexpected encounter
ludicrous</p>
<p>Writing:
D) continue (it is imperative that the gov’t…continue to support artists)
were she to be offered a job in atlanta, (she would have to rent out her apartment in chicago)
helped turn
could be (founding fathers)
had flew (is wrong; should be had FLOWN)
suggests otherwise
whatever the intention of the union organizers was, violence soon broke out
when she heard that….Hua Mulan
not on…but rather on (but on is wrong)
A for the one about Greeks ultimately abandoning island (The Greeks founded Britain but, realizing that it something or other, eventually abandoned it)
Whateverhisface so impressed Thom Yorke that he invited them on tour with him.</p>
<p>I think one of the no errors was about seltzer?</p>
<p>“not on…but rather on (but on is wrong)”</p>
<p>I don’t think the “rather” was necessary in the way that it was used. Wasn’t there a different error in this sentence?</p>
<p>“3 rates are over constant rate (graph shows different slope segments and then a line of best fit or whatever, which slope segments are above the line shown)”</p>
<p>Was it asking for how many points were above the line of best fit or how many segments???</p>
<p>exactly, i have to agree, does anyone remember the full sentence??? Adding “rather” to the sentence makes no sense…</p>
<p>“the quote at the end of passage one (free of contamination one) was to INCITE a response”</p>
<p>does anyone remember how the quote went and what the other choices were?</p>
<p>I really don’t think the “rather” is necessary…</p>