Wednesday 2012 PSAT General Discussion

<p>@emeraldevi</p>

<p>I remember deciding on the “creative philosophy” answer. I was fairly confident about it at the time.</p>

<p>@ARDink
If I remember correctly, the answer to the median/mode question was C. Which was 22.</p>

<p>I too chose “creative philosophy”, and 22 f</p>

<p>I too chose “creative philosophy”, and 22 for the mode question.
Out of the whole test, I personally feel I did the worst on the fuel questions in CR.</p>

<p>Any chance at all that the writing curve this year could go 80, 80? Or just anything less harsh than 80, 77?</p>

<p>@Alexandrina</p>

<p>Ok good. 22 is what I put as well. :)</p>

<p>@jjatty: Awesome find! That should put any current arguments to rest.</p>

<p>Two things:

  1. Was the elite/latitude question in section one?</p>

<p>2) Does anyone remember the Winston Churchill question. Whoever does would literally be my hero. </p>

<p>I also put moistened…</p>

<p>I also remembered another question from the language passage. It was asking what the phrase “grains of sand on the shore” meant or something…I put infinite.</p>

<p>Any chance -4 (3 wrong, -1 guessing penalty) will be a 74??</p>

<p>“showing the reason why Machu Piccu was an important place (the special architecture)”</p>

<p>" passage 2 speaks of people who don’t believe in the theory of passage 1 (something along those lines)"</p>

<p>“useless (I don’t remember if that was the exact answer, but it was asking about how the second passage’s author felt about that process that might negate environmental benefits, I think another answer choice was Harmful, which I guess could also be a possible answer)”</p>

<p>What were the questions for these ones?</p>

<p>I asked this earlier, but no on answered… :(</p>

<p>what’s a guessing penalty?</p>

<p>^essentially a guessing penalty is a 1/4 deduction if you got a problem wrong. So when your test is scored, besides the # correct being lowered, an additional 1/4 point is taken off.</p>

<p>Okay he wrote: "-4 (3 wrong, -1 guessing penalty) "</p>

<p>So wouldn’t wrong answers also be considered guessing penalty?</p>

<p>WHAT? I’M SO CONFUSED. SORRY GUYS</p>

<p>“showing the reason why Machu Piccu was an important place (the special architecture)”</p>

<p>" passage 2 speaks of people who don’t believe in the theory of passage 1 (something along those lines)"</p>

<p>“useless (I don’t remember if that was the exact answer, but it was asking about how the second passage’s author felt about that process that might negate environmental benefits, I think another answer choice was Harmful, which I guess could also be a possible answer)”</p>

<p>What were the questions for these ones?</p>

<p>I’m posting this one more time. PLEASE SOMEONE ANSWER ME!</p>

<p>@Leicester

  1. Yes, it was in section 1.
  2. I would also like to see a discussion of the Winston Churchill question. I put no error for that one.</p>

<p>@biovball
I remember that one too, and “infinite” is correct for that one.</p>

<p>@kimmylouie I think he means he got 3 wrong which would take away 3 points. Then minus .75 for the penalty which would round to 1 and take away an additional point.</p>

<p>@my88keys

  1. The question was asking why the author included descriptions about the great architecture at Macchu Picchu.
  2. This was from the two passages about free will.
  3. If hydrogen did not have environmental benefits, what would the other author say in response?</p>

<p>@kimmylouie
Yeah, you get points off for answering the question wrong.</p>

<p>Wait… what was the Winston Churchill question. Writing???</p>

<p>Also what is “creative philosophy” question again??</p>

<p>@charterusefox, do you know what other answer options were for 1 and 3? Thank you!</p>

<p>@rainatennis
I don’t remember a Churchill question. The philosophy question was when they asked why the author of a passage made a comparison to a bluegrass musician, and the answer was to show his artistic philosophy, or something like that.*</p>

<p>@my88keys
I don’t remember the other choices, but I am 100% sure that the answer for number 1 was to show the specialness of Machu Picchu.
I think the answer to number 2 was that the independence of American energy was important regardless of whether it helps the environment.*</p>