Today's PSAT? Lets discuss it?

[eadweald71]

I think I scored around a 180. Answers were:

Critical Reading:
Sentence Completions:
1) Scientists failing: deplorable
2) Library fostered “unfettered” thought
3) Misanthropic
4) Ruses/gambit
5) artifice
6)Flamboyant, not elephantine
7) Pedestrian

Mo and Duncan Passage
-Tape recorder signified difference in Mo’s and Duncan’s students
-Mo’s teaching style was pompous
-Mo was mocking Duncan
-Mo was trying to limit Duncan’s ability as a teacher
-The buff class leader was embarrassed because he was asking the class’s request
-Broach: Bring up

Extraterrestrial passages:
-Tone: Passionate
-Retraction vs. Concession: Concession

Bronte:
-Simile and Personification, not Understatement
-Slippery: Unreliable
-Odd meant infrequent (odd painting)
-Paragraph 6 expanded on a comparison in paragraph 5
-“Between”: Emphasize a different meaning to a previously used word
-Sister’s actions were unfortunate by understandable
-Serious meant considerable (had some serious literary sleuthing to do)

Urban Sprawl passages:
-Elitist and shortsighted vs. arrogant and vindictive: elitist and shortsighted
-2 short passages described urban sprawl as “homogeneous”

Math:
-Parallelogram: 20*68 (1360)
-Arithmetic mean with a<b<c, b = 20, answer should have been 35.
-Distance between the two points: .9
-Car at 50 mph: 7.2 minutes
-Venn diagram (10-100, inclusive, multiples of three, not perfect squares): 28
-The question about k: k/2k-n
-Isosceles triangle max length: 11
- -1<x<0 – lowest value is 1/(x^3)
-Intersection of two linear equations, y=5.5
-Golf tournament: 30
-CDs to make the other job pay more: 134
Students in 1994: 220


Writing:
Sentence Errors:
-Governments/violate question: error in “it violates”, should be “they violate”
-Caesar salad question: “But”
-Prohibit “from”
-Parliament question: should have been “For those who”
-Security company question about choosing a password should have been “you should not”
-Eels have organs in their tail which (enables) <- error, should be enable


Artist (readymade) passage:
-What could be added to the 2nd paragraph: How a readymade could become appealing

[burdett]

Why do you not think you did well? Also, how the heck did you remember all those? And thirdly, some people haven't taken this test yet, so it might be in your favour to delete the question. There are ways for people to find out who you are, and notify your school (I mean if Yahoo Answes chose to) because the puclication of the test before test dates are passed is illegal.
Anyways, good luck.

[lifton]

how do you remember all this?! o_O