Wednesday 2012 PSAT General Discussion

<p>@heps1996: I think the books question was the one that was like “10% of students in some school did not read a single book, if there were x # of students, how many read at least one book”.</p>

<p>I think I picked an answer choice with the word “plebeian” in it :/</p>

<p>I don’t remember picking plebeian for any question. Can you describe what the sentence was? ^</p>

<p>I was responding in reference to
“In the authoritarian regime… opposition… engage in political activity” if that helps</p>

<p>Or actually, now that I think about it, maybe plebeian was actually a word in the sentence? I wish I remembered these questions better.</p>

<p>^ The answer to that one was “elite…latitude,” if that helps.</p>

<p>Here’s a compilation of what we have so far. I added some stuff, correct me if I am wrong on any of these! </p>

<p>Sentence Completions:
elite…latitude
prescient
uncorroborated…ephemeral
healing
resurgence…periphery
healing
altruism
legislator
imitate… an original
diffidence… aloof
trivialized… exasperated </p>

<p>Words Passage:

  • ancient vocabulary perpetuated in everyday speech
  • liked church words because of sensory appeal
  • abandoned childish speech
  • relief after making her inventory </p>

<p>Machu Piccu:

  • (<em>probably</em>) moistened
  • patches means plots
  • different zones of vegetation
  • wrote the passage to give a personal theory
  • showing the reason why Machu Piccu was an important place (the special architecture) </p>

<p>Monkey/Tiger Paired Passages:

  • rattling of the chain
  • new years resolutions can’t change character
  • passage 2 speaks of people who don’t believe in the theory of passage 1 (something along those lines)
  • they are deluding themselves </p>

<p>Energy Independence Paired Passages:

  • threatening (the first paragraph described a threatening situation)
  • I’m not totally sure what the correct answer actually was, but I believe there was a question about how focused the people were about the space race, and the answer was something along the lines of “very focused” or something. Someone chip in if you remember the question/answer.
  • energy independence is necessary even if it is not good for the environment
  • unequivocal (I think that was in these passages)
  • produce<br>
  • 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>Math:

  • 1.5<p<1.67
  • water level: 5/6
  • dog through doors: 12
  • Median/mode/91 numbers question: 22
  • point on parabola: (1,3)
  • roman numeral question: II and III
  • product of x and y: .75
  • 4 socks
  • people who read books: 1080
  • 54th term divided by 52nd term: 36
  • perimeter of the square: 8
  • 4pi
  • 130 degrees (I’m not sure about this but I think this was the answer to a geometry question)
  • 70 degrees (same as above.)
  • 3x-2 for the number line question
  • Six (bar chart question) </p>

<p>Writing:

  • “respectively” was incorrect
  • “viewing it” was incorrect
  • “in contrast”
  • terra cotta was no error</p>

<p>Those are all correct as far as I know</p>

<p>Here are a few more writing:</p>

<p>4 kids, 2 OF WHOM
The last one was an illogical comparison- Violin
human activities such as ( something about destruction of habitat, etc)</p>

<p>For *- 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) * I believe the word was doubtful</p>

<p>And now i’m kicking myself because I bubbled in all those answers for the monkey/tiger pair but i thought 2 of those answers were wrong, so i erased it at the last minute. UGH! I HATE THAT!</p>

<p>The answer to one of the geometry problems was 100 degrees.</p>

<p>What were the angular problems again? Also, I am pretty sure in the writing it was “over the continued federal support” (aka the less wordy one).</p>

<p>jjaty: what do you mean “4 kids, 2 OF WHOM”?</p>

<p>What to you guys predict the scoring curve to be. My predictions:
0 -1 -3 -4 -5 -6 -7 -8 -9
CR 80,80,78,76,74,72,70,68,66
M 80,77,75,72,69,67,65,63,60
W 80,77,75,72,70,68,66,63,60</p>

<p>The perimeter of the square was 8 - was that a MC or grid in?</p>

<p>Grid in ^ 10char</p>

<p>It was a grid in.</p>

<p>which question was the “p” one???</p>

<p>For the dog question… Can you explain to me how you got that? Because I used the arithmetic sequence & got 10. I used n!/(n-r)! r!</p>

<p>(5)!/(5-2)! 2! = 10. How is it 12?</p>

<p>& I don’t understand how the sock question is 4? Can someone explain to me this? I seem to not understand sequences. Pleas e</p>

<p>K constant, I put 600? Anybody? </p>

<p>& the 8 was M/c. When it asks, about the cube how the surface area is 48… The answer was 8 for one side of the square. Pretty sure that was not grid in.</p>

<p>For the new year resolution, I put something with improvement in it?can someone tell me if I’m right? Because I don’t understand what choice you guys put down above ^^^</p>

<p>I got 600 for K as well. So there were two questions with the answer 8 (the perimeter of the square AND the SA of the cube)?</p>