PSAT '09 Form S Official Thread

<p>did we come to a consensus on the Workers on Strike question? how about the Chinese Garden?</p>

<p>i’m pretty sure it was “because” since the “because” one has “he” as the subject, which matches the main clause, while “due to” has “his failure” as the subject.</p>

<p>yeah i put because as well</p>

<p>so for the math question where you had thew to find the area of the triangle what did you guys get</p>

<p>Can someone please tell me what the “Squander” vocab question was? Thanks!</p>

<p>The area of the triangle was AB. The word SQUANDER was used in the vocab question in which the teacher tells her students to not ___________ (waste) words.</p>

<p>Okay, thank you so much! I was really scared I got that one wrong haha. :)</p>

<p>I have a different question. What did you guys put for that question where the questions asks what the function of “Should we have catering or make the food ourselves thing” in the passage with the man and the marriage in CR section 2. Was it (A) to specify the issue at hand or (E) to voice some apprehensions or cast doubts or something like that.</p>

<p>^I put “confess to ongoing confusion.”</p>

<p>i said specify the issue @ hand…</p>

<p>same I put to specify the issue at hand</p>

<p>^it was specify issue</p>

<p>for the because and due to question, wasn’t the due to clause really awkward? Like something along the lines of: due to the failure of the mayor blah blah blah??? It’s in passive tense, something CB doesn’t like, and it’s not as concise and straight forward as: Because he failed to fix the city’s fiscal crisis, blah blah blah.</p>

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Regarding the former…Still in disagreement with other posters. I put “have so angered the workers that they threatened…,” and others seemed to also put “have angered the workers to threaten…” It seems to me that the second one can’t work because it really isn’t grammatically proper to just stick an infinitive; the infinitive doesn’t seem to go with any particular subject, and it’s just plain poor structure. The first one, admittedly, might cause some ambiguity with the “they,” but given its construction as a result clause, the usage of “they” would most likely be proper. Just my thought; this was overall a very tricky question.</p>

<p>In response to several of the writing questions that have popped up, for the Greek one, it was “in explaining” and for because or due to, I think if that was a question regarding choosing the error, the answer would 100% be due to. I learned that almost 99% of the time, the error is due to so if you see it you should immediately circle it and move on.</p>

<p>what’s the concensus on the one like “having learned from experience, to plant something in the shadiest parts was a bad idea” or something like that?? I think I put to plant “planting” in stead of “to plant” would sound better but I’m not so sure</p>

<p>Due to is incorrect at the beginning of a sentence.</p>

<p>Why was it specify the issue at hand? The issue was already specified in the previous sentences. The sentence served to confess ongoing confusion.</p>

<p>Have we come to a concensus on
Experience [A]Having[A] told the homeowners association that ** to plant** seeds in the shadier areas of the garden is a waste of time.</p>

<p>I put A; from the post I saw it seemed like there was confusion between A and B</p>

<p>Any consensus on the Chinese Garden question?</p>

<p>What is -2 in CR on a harsh curve, and an average curve? From my experience i would think 76-78- is that true?</p>