PSAT's

[Hellfighter 17]

Only when they have the same base, and 2 and 5 are different.

[Minoshia]

you're right. dirty bitch. O_O

[Hellfighter 17]

Originally posted by Minoshia
you're right. dirty bitch. O_O

=D

[Ruhiel]

He got me too, Minoshia.

Alright. I'm prepared and confident. Just did a practice math section of it, and only missed got 3 out of 25 wrong, two being grid-ins, so that's a raw score of... 22.75, aka 23.

Now as long as all this new stuff crammed into my head doesn't erase my good verbal and writing skills, I think I might get into the NM range!

[Hellfighter 17]

Show me this two being grid-in. O_O

[Ruhiel]

One of them was just a stupid mistake. As usual.

Here it is:

At a certain company, the number of production employees was increased from 300 to 390. The number of clerical employees was increased by twice the percent increase of the production employees. If the final number of clerical employees was 192, what was the original number of clerical employees.

It should have been 120, because 192/1.6 = 120
However, I somehow got 115? I don't even remember how I did it.

The other one was actually another stupid mistake now that I think about it. I won't bore you. I just spilled stupid juice all over that problem.

However, the multiple choice one I missed was yet again another exponential expression:

The initial number of elements in a certain set is p, where p>0. If the number of elements in the set doubles every hour, which of the following represents the total number of elements in the set after exactly 48 hours?

a. 24p
b. 48p
c. 2p^24
d. (2^48)p
e. (2p)^48

I said E. It was D.
EDIT: Ugh, the 8) was an 8 and a )

[Hellfighter 17]

I asked to see the two being grid-in 'cause I have never heard of it before. @_@ SHOW ME!! =P

I'm assuming you know where you went wrong on the elements question. =/

[Raz]

Originally posted by Bojack
^ means and in Geometry. \/ means or. ;-)

OMG YES! That's what I said before. =(

[Old Dave]

*laughs at you all* I got a 1500 on the old SAT when I was a senior, did not study, could have taken it again and got a 1600, but I'm a lazy bastard so

[Ruhiel]

Er, HF, do you mean what IS a grid-in?

[Burter]

I went in to this high school as a volunteer to supervise the PSAT's today. Looked like easy stuff to me.

[Ruhiel]

Most of it was. Except near the end of the math section, they threw in a question involving secant lines of circles and their arcs, and I was like "WTF?"

[Sammah]

I think I got like, an 1100 or something without studyin, and i never retook it. lol

[Burter]

Originally posted by Android 20
Most of it was. Except near the end of the math section, they threw in a question involving secant lines of circles and their arcs, and I was like "WTF?"

If it was me, I wouldn't have done the math questions where you have to fill in the boxes and shit. As long as you fill in the bubbles, you can't get those wrong.

[Hellfighter 17]

Originally posted by Android 20
Er, HF, do you mean what IS a grid-in?

Yes. I know what a grid is, bt not this. . ."grid-in." >.>

[Ruhiel]

It's a question where you have no multiple choice answers to look at. They give you a box where you write in your numbered answer, and then bubble in the indiviudual numbers below, including decimal points and division signs for fractions.

They're a real bitch, mainly because you have no way of knowing if your answer could even be possibly right.

[Hellfighter 17]

Oh. So, it's like a question you would do in class? I've never taken the PSATs, but the cloest ting we have to that, the CAT (some number after it), but they are all multiple choice.

[Ruhiel]

Yep. Pretty much. The only advantage you have is you can't have a negative answer, because they don't give you a negative symbol. Still hate 'em though.

[Krillin]

At least you don't get points deducted for getting a Grid-In wrong.

I personally loved the Quantitative Comparison questions, but those got deleted from the SAT before I took it for my official college run. There were plenty of them back when I took it in seventh and ninth grade.

[Ruhiel]

Quantitative Comparisons? Man, are those like analogies, except in math?

And where did the analogy questions in the verbal section go? I was damn good at those.

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