The Glorious PSAT What you can expect when you are testing.

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The Glorious PSAT What you can expect when you are testing

The Sections  Critical Reading –Vocabulary (words, words, words) –Meaning from Context (Figure it Out) –Punctuation (Comma Coma) –Transitive Words (Moving On) –Reading

2 Types of Questions  Sentence Completion –13 questions –Fill in the two _____ words to get this ____.  Passage-based Questions –35 questions –Don’t we do this everyday? We will be amazing at this!

Hints  The questions are in order by difficulty – 1 st = easy 35 th = hard  All answers in the passage-based questions are in the passage (duh) –Remember FCOURT? Prove you are right!  The answer to the fill in question has to match both blanks equally –Pick the “best” answer possible

Ask Your Math Teacher  Algebraic functions  Geometry and Measurement  Number and Operations  Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability

Practice Sentence Completion Before Karen Chin’s research, scientists assumed that the value of evidence preserved in the fossils called coprolites was too ___ to warrant the effort of ___. A) unpredictable... transformation unpredictable. transformation unpredictable. transformation B) superlative... examination superlative. examination superlative. examination C) conventional...eradication conventional..eradication conventional..eradication D) relevant... synthesis relevant. synthesis relevant. synthesis E) dubious...analysis dubious..analysis dubious..analysis

Dubious – doubtful so it wouldn’t be worth the effort of picking it apart (analysis) BACK

Sorry superlative – higher quality, so it WOULD warrant examination BACK

Sorry unpredictable may make sense, but transformation (to change) doesn’t BACK

Relevant fossils would be worth the effort of synthesis? Synthesis means to generate or to make – so no, it wouldn’t BACK

Sorry eradication – complete elimination of evidence and the evidence isn’t “too conventional” BACK