Wednesday 2012 PSAT General Discussion

<p>I agree with KindofSortof, cuz that was what I thought. But many CC have debated for moistened. So time will tell :)</p>

<p>@kindofsortof, that’s what I was thinking during the test & likes consumed. Because how can dry whatever be moist?</p>

<p>& can someone refresh me withy the 10% student reads how many do not read math question? Please?</p>

<p>Wasn’t the Roman Numeral Question the one about what must be true about x in some cases. I put ll and lll. </p>

<p>Anyone remembers getting A lot of E’s in Improving Sentences (#6,7,8)…Forgot Question totally. For the Identifying Sentence Errors film question I put E. Not sure why anything would be wrong.</p>

<p>Also, does anyone remember what the first long passage in section 3 was about…not the Machu Pichu passage.</p>

<p>I’m almost certain it was moistened. Sometimes, you can’t just plug in the answer choice and see if it vaguely makes sense. You have to actually look at the word you’re replacing. How could “watered” mean “consumed”? </p>

<p>Moistened made more sense in the context, anyway. There was a contrast between a dry and lifeless valley and a ____ and lively valley. Wet fits, so moistened makes more sense. Sure, fog can shroud or “consume” a valley, but that’s irrelevant to the point of the paragraph.</p>

<p>The problem w/ the 10% was:
X students
so you do X x .1 = .1X
X- .1X = 1080</p>

<p>And what page does the moistened vs consumed question start on??? idk what i put fr that question</p>

<p>@studiousmaxi…</p>

<p>I’m pretty sure that wasnt the exact sentence for the moisten/consumed question. Because then I wouldn’t hve put that…</p>

<p>I chose moistened because the passage discusses the distinction between the dry land and the place that lush because it has water-- it is moist. Also, wasn’t the original word “watered”? So “moistened” makes sense here.</p>

<p>The roman numeral question gave you three mathematical statements that you had to say were true or false.</p>

<p>@ eddygotmilk, 1080 sounds familiar. But what was the EXACT question/problem? PLEASEEE I need to know that one math question lol</p>

<p>@heps1996, I know that for the Roman numeral question but what was the ACTUALLY question & equation for each numeral???</p>

<p>Guys… we should move on the moistened/consumed question because both sides seem pretty unequivocal (see what I did there :wink: ) about their answers</p>

<p>What were the e no errors? I put viola/violin e but I heard it was an illogical comparison. (damn I wish I didn’t get rushed). I feel stupid about terra cotta. I wasn’t even close. I put e for humans/films. What were the other e’s? I remember I had 2 more (1 in the start of identifying errors and 1 in the middle… maybe 1 in more in the end, can’t remember). I think we need some more answers for CR because I barely remember the psat. I only remember after I see the question or answer.</p>

<p>@whatdoyouthink, I only had like 2 No errors… Sooo idk why you have so many e’s</p>

<p>I had 3.</p>

<p>10char</p>

<p>You guys, I didn’t read the entire thread, but some of you mentioned you put I and II on the roman numeral question…</p>

<p>It wasn’t I and II. It was just II.</p>

<p>Because (x-1)squared is not always greater than or equal to xsquared if x was 1.</p>

<p>Hope this makes sense. I spent like 5 minutes on that question.</p>

<p>Does anyone remember the exact phrasing of the dictatorship question? I think it might have been “Although the dictatorship afforded significant rights to the ____ of political parties, the rank-and-file had little ____ to vote.”</p>

<p>I had two or three no errors. </p>

<p>And yes, Whatdoyouthink, the violin/viola one was incorrect. It was comparing the violin’s tune to the viola itself, not the tune of the viola.</p>

<p>It’s actually II AND III ^^^</p>

<p>Can someone PLEASE tell me the equation for each Roman numeral!?!?!</p>

<p>I had two no errors in a row… Anybody???</p>

<p>Yes, I remember marking two no errors in a row.</p>