Wednesday 2012 PSAT General Discussion

<p>Ohhhh Yeaaah!!!</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>^my best guess. I got pretty stuck but can’t remember when I ultimately answered. I think the consensus is elite…latitude.</p>

<p>I also had two no errors in a row :)</p>

<p>Does anybody remember the exact question for the violin sentence?</p>

<p>For the whole “watered” debate:</p>

<p>It is definitely moistened. Just look up the definition of water. It can never mean “consume.” The only options that were actual definitions of watered were “diluted” and “moistened.” Diluted didn’t make sense because he described the valley as being clear.</p>

<p>Was Secreted another option for the consumed/mositened q?</p>

<p>Smarty1201- I don’t think anyone can remember the equations for the roman numeral question, but I think most people agree that the answer was II and III. </p>

<p>As for the violin/viola question, I think it was along the lines of…
Although a violin looks very similar in viola, the tone of a viola is deeper than a violin. </p>

<p>“than that of a violin.” should be the phrase.</p>

<p>Which ones were underlined? Because FOR SURE violin is wrong because it compares tone of the violin not the violin</p>

<p>For, the one with moistened or consumed. Can you tell me which letter was which, because I just know which letter I choose? Im pretty sure it was between C and E.</p>

<p>Consumed was in the middle so C.</p>

<p>I don’t know what was underlined other than violin… that would have been choice D.</p>

<p>heps: that sounds right. Even though the consensus is elites… latitude, I think the answer was the one that started with commoners. I believe the second word was a synonym for freedom, which seems to make the most sense.</p>

<p>Thanks, I guess I switched it right at the timer to moistened, so that better be right.</p>

<p>@Smarty: I realize that that’s not the exact wording; I was simplifying the comparison to make it easier to see my logic. I seriously haven’t read a good argument for “consumed.” The answer was “moistened.”</p>

<p>@catch: As kimmie said, the answer was II and III. We agree with you that choice I was incorrect.</p>

<p>Here is an update on the list from the second page, just in case you wanted it or if there are newcomers who don’t want to read through 9 pages. I probably wont update it again because it takes up a lot of space, and I doubt we are going to be able to think of much more since we have had 4 days to forget all of the questions and answers… </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)
  • determined (how people were after Kennedy’s speech)
  • energy independence is necessary even if it is not good for the environment
  • unequivocal (I think that was in these passages)
  • produce
  • 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 to an angular question
  • probably 100 degrees for the other anglar question, but possibly 70. we haven’t reached a consensus.<br>
  • 3x-2 for the number line question
  • Six (bar chart question)
  • grid in perimeter question: 8
  • fitness club “k constant” grid in : 600
  • who doesn’t have certain energy company : 3,000,000</p>

<p>Writing:

  • “respectively” was incorrect
  • “viewing it” was incorrect
  • “in contrast”
  • terra cotta was no error
  • film was no error
  • 4 kids, 2 of whom
  • violin question had illogical comparison, d was incorrect
  • least wordy answer on the federal support question (“continued federal support of art”)</p>

<p>The problem is that rank and file basically means “commoners” which doesn’t make sense “Although the authoritarian regime afforded significant rights to the commoners of the opposition, their rank-and-file (ie commoner) members still had little opportunity to engage in political activity.”</p>

<p>I don’t see the problem. I read it as saying that they did have significant rights, but still had little opportunity to engage in political activity or voting.</p>

<p>One of the questions on the energy passage was asking something about the effect of JFK’s speech and how the response was considered to be. I think one of the answers included “determined.”</p>

<p>The blank should be an antonym of commoner. Therefore, elite is correct.</p>

<p>I wish I remembered the exact phrasing. Oh well, CR is the section I’m least worried about.</p>

<p>Hey what do u guys think the general trend in states will be from last year: up or down in scores?</p>