tomkim

for cali kids - whats the cutoff score for us? things arent looking good for me. -3 (2 grid-ins in math), -1 in critical reading, 0 in writing so far, but prolly a few more mistakes maybe.....the cutoff score was 220 last year D:

MutaRiSC

I picked a different one for the snowflake one...

Edit: This is in response to Iceberg's post. Somehow its before his.

Iceberg123

The snowflake one was definitely uncorroborative...ephemeral, meaning they couldn't reach an agreement because the snowflakes were short-lived.

I put in contrast for the facial expression one, but I could see either being correct. I think that question was more subjective.

Same with the one about why he liked the words. My friend thinks it's religious, but I think it's because she liked the sound of the words.

Niceboat

The tabernacle question was really hard. I won't even bother saying what I put because it was purely a guess

For one of the SC I also chose elite/latitude. This was definitely the hardest SC for me as well.
Snowflakes was definitely the ephemeral option one.


The question about the motger's reaction to her daughter question I put the one about childish words are useless or something like that

For the question about how would the author of passage 1 respond to the artists mentioned in passage 2 I put he would say they're deluding themselves

Same set of questions. Deck of cards= rattling of the chain?

rainatennis

Anyone remember getting a lot of E's on the Improving Sentences. Identifying SE was actually pretty darn easy... Got in contrast for the last question btw. Hopefully got a 220.
Hope Idaho cutoff score not too high.

Whatdoyouthink

I got 5 e's for se... 3 in last 5(i didn't put e for terra cotta I put a because I thought it was "a tome... have been A"). For CR passage 2 was appealing to those undermined by passage 1. (can't remember exactly every part of the answer I put for comparison of two passages) Anyone else get that? Damn, I panicked because I had 8 questions left for writing with 4 minutes left. Luckily I got them all done (last 5 so much easier than expected), but I'm pretty sure I got the terra cotta wrong. I put she likes the sound of the words because... the passage implies that.(so happy that baby finds out words can taste good) Hopefully: 68 CR 80 Math 72 W (my prediction)

thedeev

was the last identifying error question A because it was supposed to be although instead of though?

thedeev

and in the Machu Picchu passage was the answer for the fog moistened or consumed...the river?

rainatennis

Last IE I got B (respectively). Sounded extremely misplaced. And the machu picchu i got consumed... not sure but i myself was between these two. Moistened sounded weird.

I got 3 E's in a row in improving sentences (#6,7,8 I think)... one probably wrong?

OACLJV

I got rich history, but I think sensory whatever was the correct answer to the tabernacle one. I had sensory and then changed it . The reason I changed it was because it was saying to find the answer in the context of the entire passage, which spoke about how words had come from different languages and such. Since those words were biblical, they would have likely passed through different languages into English. However, the marbles thing was a dead giveaway for sensory, so I should have stuck to my first instinct...

I put moistened for the machu piccu one - consumed makes as much sense as moistened does, but I never would have thought that consumed was a synonym for watered... This seems like a 50/50 split between people. I'm really hoping the CR curve is a bit easier because of this question.. Has College Board ever pulled a trick like that before where 2 answers could make perfect sense but only 1 was a true synonym of the original..?

Did you guys get 130 degrees and 70 degrees as the answers to the geometry questions on the test?

thedeev

@OACLJV what were the questions?

OACLJV

I honestly don't remember, they were just questions along the lines of "what is the angle value of x". I think there were two "find the angle" questions with the answer 130 to one and 70 to the other, but perhaps I'm confusing a practice test with the real test.

Redeemed05

The PSAT didn't seem too hard for me, either, especially in comparison with the practice tests. It makes me wonder, though, if everyone's scores will be higher this year. If they are, then the cutoff will be raised.

heps1996

I thought a lot of the grammar questions were fairly obvious if you used a practice book to review the tricky stuff... dangling modifiers, incorrect usage of "they", etc.

I couldn't figure out the question about the woman's daughter learning to talk so I just took a guess out of two of the choices... I can't remember which one though haha

Tabernacle question I was pretty confident in answering "sensory" because of the marbles thing.

For the macchu picchu one I answered "moistened."

Did anyone get 8 for one of the grid-in questions? I can't remember what the question was but I remember just bubbling in "8"

For prime numbers I got 108 (97+11)

Sock question I got 4

Another one of the grid ins I got a number that was like 6080 or 6076 or something... but again, can't remember what the question was

Nicknicholas

Heps-
prime numbers was right
socks was right
I got 8 for one of the grid-ins aswell and I also cannot remember.
I also put moistened because I believe the context referred to how the fog was able to help the plants grow.