The Glorious PSATThe Glorious PSATWhat you can expect when you are What you can expect when you are

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The SectionsThe Sections

Critical ReadingCritical Reading– Vocabulary (words, words, words)Vocabulary (words, words, words)– Meaning from Context (Figure it Meaning from Context (Figure it

Out)Out)– Punctuation (Comma Coma)Punctuation (Comma Coma)– Transitive Words (Moving On)Transitive Words (Moving On)

– ReadingReading

2 Types of Questions2 Types of Questions

Sentence CompletionSentence Completion– 13 questions13 questions– Fill in the two _____ words to get this Fill in the two _____ words to get this

____.____. Passage-based QuestionsPassage-based Questions

– 35 questions35 questions– Don’t we do this everyday? We will be Don’t we do this everyday? We will be

amazing at this!amazing at this!

Hints Hints

The questions are in order by difficulty – 1The questions are in order by difficulty – 1stst = easy 35= easy 35thth = hard = hard

All answers in the passage-based All answers in the passage-based questions are in the passage (duh)questions are in the passage (duh)– Remember FCOURT? Prove you are right!Remember FCOURT? Prove you are right!

The answer to the fill in question has to The answer to the fill in question has to match both blanks equallymatch both blanks equally– Pick the “best” answer possiblePick the “best” answer possible

Ask Your Math TeacherAsk Your Math Teacher

Algebraic functionsAlgebraic functions Geometry and MeasurementGeometry and Measurement Number and OperationsNumber and Operations Data Analysis, Statistics, and Data Analysis, Statistics, and

ProbabilityProbability

PracticePractice

Sentence CompletionSentence Completion

Before Karen Chin’s research, scientists assumed Before Karen Chin’s research, scientists assumed that the value of evidence preserved in the that the value of evidence preserved in the fossils called coprolites was too ___ to warrant fossils called coprolites was too ___ to warrant the effort of ___.the effort of ___.

A)A) unpredictable . . . transformationunpredictable . . . transformationB)B) superlative . . . examination superlative . . . examination C)C) conventional . . .eradicationconventional . . .eradicationD)D) relevant . . . synthesisrelevant . . . synthesisE)E) dubious . . .analysisdubious . . .analysis

Dubious – doubtfulDubious – doubtfulso it wouldn’t be worth the effort of so it wouldn’t be worth the effort of

picking it apart (analysis)picking it apart (analysis) BACK

SorrySorrysuperlative – higher quality, so it superlative – higher quality, so it

WOULD warrant examinationWOULD warrant examination

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SorrySorry

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

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Relevant fossils would be worth the Relevant fossils would be worth the effort of synthesis? Synthesis effort of synthesis? Synthesis

means to generate or to make – so means to generate or to make – so no, it wouldn’tno, it wouldn’t

BACK

SorrySorryeradication – complete elimination eradication – complete elimination of evidence and the evidence isn’t of evidence and the evidence isn’t

“too conventional”“too conventional”BACK