PSATs

andreaaaaaa
Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:10:23 +0000

Math:

Area of quadrilateral (almost-a-triangle thingy in the grid) – 3.5

Train in the tunnel – 1200

Rst rectangle box– square root

Which one could be a triangle – 7,8,9

How many odd numbers – 125

How many students – 18

Ratio of the wheel- 7.5

What cant have a remainder of 5 – 5

Ecdf - e>d>c>f

Cost to mail the package – 2.5

F(K) G(K) – 0

Answer to a grid in – 6007

X-K – 0

Average - 280

T in terms of A - -14a

square root of x - 3 = 8 - 120

how many months had more than the previous month graph - 3

possible value of x that would make (x-2.73)(x-3.45) negative - 3, could be others

0<a<b<6<c<d (grid in) - 9

what was the 620th digit in the sequence - 9

calendar with july and august - saturday

perpendicular line to y=mx+b - -1/2…can anyone else confirm this?

Critical Reading:

Sentence Completion:
Applause- tacit

Something about corporate people and profit – vaunted

Modern critic – its looking like most people think its incontrovertible/trouble

resilient

conspiratorial/innocuous?

Beach Short Passage:
Youthful adventurousness

Around the world Short Passage:
Authors attitude toward man - Indifferent/critical (so far it is split about 50/50)

Smooth - suave

Spanish Long Passage:
“hum” – constant presence

“expand” – spread

why was the author unfair to Spanish – one historical process to its spread

Robot Long Passage:
“mindchildren”- they were offspring and will surpass

Danish African Long Passage:
“raise” be put up for consideration

“exercise” use

pain in art with the quote from someone who knew her - transmuting the pain into art

which of the following best expresses the claim that Dinesen was a "great mythmaker”- Dinesen constructed a public identity as carefully as she constructed her stories

The parenthetical phrase - emphasize that Dinesen’s life is not easily distinguished from the myth

phoenix – she was regenerated after a disappointment and became a successful artist

Fourth paragraph is unique because - is critical of Dinesen’s character

The comment implies that - Dinesen’s behavior cannot be evaluated in absolute moral terms

which best contrasts Dineson in Kenya and in Denmark - An awe-inspiring figure versus a contradictory individual

Genetically Modified Food Passages:
What would passage 2 say about the risks – acceptable or slight…this one is also split…its looking like acceptable

Writing:

“John and I” – wrong, should be john and me.

“Indonesia jewels” – wrong, suspending should be suspended

“inspire” – wrong, should be “inspired by”, not “inspired from"

“visual to” - this one was about climbing a mountain and being able to see the city, but it was wrong because it said “visual to” instead of “visible”

“the service that has increased in cost is” - hospital care

“little advances have been made toward civil rights” - no error

also, at the end of the critical reading section, there were 3 Ds and then 3 Cs