<p>Can someone refresh me with the product of X & Y… It’s been to long since Wednesday lol.</p>
<p>Please?</p>
<p>Um math (even if you are lucky) is never 72. It’s always like 68 or something</p>
<p>actually last year, i missed 3 math questions, one was a grid in, and got a 72</p>
<p>Are you guys discussing about math section only?! Or may ask you guys to grade my essay?</p>
<p>Someone please refresh me with the X & Y product</p>
<p>Smarty, the math question was that the average of X and Y was 1, and the difference of X and Y was 1. The two numbers were 3/2 and 1/2, and so their product was 3/4.</p>
<p>x and y are 1 apart. The average of x and y is 1. What is the product of x and y? If the average of x and y is 1, and they are 1 apart, they have to be 1.5 and .5, of which the product is .75.</p>
<p>Why don’t they make nmsf, a national standard, because it’s unfair to people who live in very hard states?</p>
<p>Because states with higher cutoffs most likely have better education. Someone with a 223 in Massachusetts would get a 205 in Arkansas.</p>
<p>Can somebody predict my score:</p>
<p>CR-(1-3 wrong) (moistened/consumed question)
Math (1 wrong, grid)
Writing (3-4 wrong) </p>
<p>The cutoff in my state was 213 last year.</p>
<p>Well, I can tell you that the education here in Texas is some of the lowest in the nation except for a few regions. However, because of those couple of regions and private schools, Texas has a pretty decently high cutoff.</p>
<p>It’s always going to be unfair to somebody, honestly. If a national standard for NM was used, then students in the lower cutoff states would complain about unreasonable standards.</p>
<p>I feel bad for those that don’t get a good education in a hard state. Like my native California which has the worst public school system in the country, yet has a cutoff of ~220 which is one of the highest in the nation.</p>
<p>I do have to agree with you on that. I am fortunate to go to one of the better school districts in Texas, but I do believe that lots of more rural areas do get the short end of the stick… Having a national standard isn’t necessarily going to fix that, though. Perhaps there should be a score cutoff based on wealth of school districts?</p>
<p>True, but colleges are trying to take the best kids nationally, not by state. Oh well, I really can’t complain, Texas’s score is at least way lower than some North East states.</p>
<p>@814560 you are definitely good if that’s what you missed. Im guessing low 70’s for CR, 75 for Math, and 66 or 68 for writing. Those are conservatively low estimates also.</p>
<p>I think Texas and California are probably 2 of the worst states for National Merit. I’m pretty sure at least half of Texas/California public schools are complete crap, but there are a few districts that pump out 100’s of scholars each year. And those less wealthy districts don’t encourage their students to take the PSAT to account for the poorer areas of the state.</p>
<p>Was the X & Y grid in or m/c? Because I don’t not recall X & Y at all…</p>
<p>Although the authoritarian regime afforded significant rights to the ____ of the opposition, their rank-and-file members still had little ____ to engage in political activity." </p>
<p>The correct answer is “elite…latitude”</p>
<p>I cannot remember what I put, and missing this would bring my raw score down from -2 to -4 (I don’t omit). Was “plebeian” an answer for either of the blanks? Elite…latitude seems like something I would put, but the word plebeian keeps sticking in my head as the answer I put. Am I just imaging things or did I pick the wrong choice?</p>
<p>Cuz if that was true 99% would belong to NY, MA, NJ, and CA</p>
<p>I think plebeian was in one of the answer choices, but I’m not really sure. I spent lots of time deciding between elite/latitude and commoners/opportunity and didn’t think much about the other options.</p>