PSAT '09 Form S Official Thread

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The SAT people write questions that are not debatable; all of the correct answers have a specific place(s) in the passage you can point to for proof. The answer was “playful”, because both passages used humor in specific lines in the respective passages that indicated the tone; the same cannot be said for “defiance”, which, while possibly true, did not have specific evidence in the passage.
Learning to identify the answers to these kinds of questions comes with practice.</p>

<p>^O no:( I think I missed that:/</p>

<p>Thanks. So it was playful because the first passage’s “snoot” thing and the second passage’s overly exaggerated descriptions?</p>

<p>What were the no errors, again?
Navajo was one of them…I can’t remember the others</p>

<p>Does anyone remember the other possible answers for the “oracular” SC?</p>

<p>The no errors was E. It meant that there was no error in the sentence.</p>

<p>Also, I just realized that the S represented the Saturday PSAT haha</p>

<p>Was tenable one of the choices?
And I also thought the first CR was harder than the second.</p>

<p>I know, but which were the no errors. There was Navajo, biologists, …</p>

<p>^^I agree, the second one was more simplistic and less time consuming.</p>

<p>i had about 5 no errors i think.</p>

<p>Are u sure the answer is 171. I got 180.</p>

<p>It’s 171.</p>

<p>100 - 109 = 10
110 - 190 = 9</p>

<p>There’s nineteen numbers with a zero digit for every hundred.</p>

<p>19 * 9 = 171</p>

<p>The Question: How many integers with a 0 in them are between 100 and 999 inclusive?</p>

<p>okay… so you have your first slew of 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109…which are 10. then 110, 120, 130, 140, 150, 160, 170, 180, 190. which are 9. </p>

<p>10+9= 19, and 100-999, there are 9 sequences of those so, 9<em>19=171… don’t worry, I orignally put that, and stupidly changed it to 162… you must have been off by 1 in 9</em>19, and put 9*20 instead…</p>

<p>what is -6 CR, -1 M, -3 W as a score</p>

<p>in the critical reading section (1stt on with african conservation)
hold=apply
collapse = become meaningless
right??? the vocab in context questions</p>

<p>^^collapse was the other one i believe. i cant remember but i narrowed it down to two. dam idr which one. it was tough tho</p>

<p>Does anyone remember the Populism question in the writing?</p>

<p>@NerdAttack–I got both of what you said… it definitely was apply, and I am certain it was “become meaningless” because it had to do with the context of Africa, which had a different environmental doctrine than that of the United States.</p>

<p>Does anyone else think that the math question which asked which angle when added to a 45 degree angle would be closest to 180 degrees was an odd question? It just seemed like a strange question because it was visual. (I put D)</p>

<p>^ I was surprised too. Not what you (or I, at least) generally saw on practice tests. :confused: Oh well.</p>