Basic Questions
Critical Reading
Math
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100
What do you need to bring if you're taking the PSAT test tomorrow in Room 223: two No. 2 pencils, photo ID and ______________.
What is an approved calculator.
100
The critical reading section of the PSAT contains two types of questions: Sentence Completion and ______.
What is Passage-Based Reading.
100
The Mathematics Section covers the following areas: Numbers and Operations, Algebra and Functions, Geometry and Measurement and ___________.
What is Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability (10-15%).
100
What kind of writing skills questions are on the PSAT: Improving Sentences (20 questions), Identifying Sentence Errors (14 questions) and _____ (5 questions).
What is Improving Paragraphs (5 questions).
100
The PSAT has five sections. You will have ___ minutes each for Sections 1-4 and ___ minutes for Section 5.
What is 30 minutes for Section 5.
200
The PSAT serves as the qualifying exam for the ____________ program and can provide students with guidance about their strengths and weaknesses in preparation for the SAT.
What is National Merit Scholarship.
200
Jill Ker Conway's autobiography explores the ---- of childhood, the unexpected changes that occur in a young life. (A) vicissitudes (B) veneers (C) evanescence (D) vulnerabilities (E) attachments
What is (A) vicissitudes.
200
A box contains a red marble, a green marble, a yellow marble, a blue marble, and no other marbles. Two marbles are to be chosen at random from the box without replacement. If the first marble chosen is green, what is the probability that the second marble chosen is green, what is the probability that the second marble chosen will be blue? (A) 1/4, (B) 1/3, (C) 1/2, (D) 2/3, (E) 1
What is (B) 1/3.
200
The graduation speaker advised the students _to devote yourself_ to a few passions and to seek excellence in those specific areas. (A) to devote yourself, (B) to devote themselves, (C) to all devote oneself, (D) that each devote yourself, (E) for them to devote themselves
What is (B) to devote themselves.
200
In the xy-coordinate system above, which of the following points lies on the line that passes through points 0 and A? (A) 0,1 (B) (1,3) (C) (2, 1), (D) (2,4), (E) (4,2)
What is (D) (2, 4).
300
These are the following reasons to take the PSAT: Get feedback about critical academic skills, _________, start getting ready for college, enter scholarship competitions, see which AP courses your might be ready for. What is missing?
What is prepare for the SAT / ACT.
300
Rather than accepting the theory unquestioningly, Deborah regarded it with----. (A) mirth (B) sadness (C) responsibility (D) ignorance (E) skepticism
What is (E) skepticism.
300
If 4x -2 = 14, what is the value of 2x -1? (A) 8 (B) 7 (C) 6 (D) 5 (E) 4
What is (B) 7.
300
Laura Ingalls Wilder published her first book __and she was sixty-five years old then. How do you improve this sentence? (A) and she was sixty-five years old then (B) when she was sixty-five (C) at age sixty-five years old (D) upon the reaching of sixty-five years (E) at the time when she was sixty-five
What is (B) when she was sixty-five.
300
Jules Verne's 1897 novel An Antarctic Mystery was____: it foresaw the disastrous long-term consequences of the massive hunting of whales. (A) spurious (B) vitriolic (C) reminiscent (D) prescient (E) presumptuous
What is (D) prescient
400
When scoring the PSAT you get one point for each multiple-choice questions you get correct and 1/4 point deducted for each incorrect. For math grid-ins you get 1 point for each correct and ____ for each incorrect.
What is zero.
400
Although the authoritarian regime accorded significant rights to the --- of the opposition parties, their rank-and-file members still had only minimal----to engage in political activity. (A) commoners..opportunity (B) dissidents..cause (C) adversaries..inclination (D) elites..latitude (E) stalwarts..compensation
What is (D) elites..latitude.
400
On the number line on the board, the tick marks are equal spaced. Which of the following expressed y in terms of x? (A) x+2, (B) 2x+1, (C) 2x+2, (D) 3x -2, (E) 3x
What is (D) 3x -2.
400
George started saving money when he was six years old, __so by the time of his becoming_ a teenager he has enough to pay for a trip to Japan to visit his grandparents. (A) so by the time of his becoming (B) so that by the time when he became (C) so by the time he became (D) and by the time he would become (E) and by the time when he had become
What is (C) so by the time he became.
400
The president of the publishing company said that he firm sold more electronic books in the first four months of 2008 _as they sold_ in all of 2007. (A) as they sold (B) as it did (C) than was sold (D) than they have (E) than it did
What is (E) than it did.
500
When you sit down to take the test: read all the directions, read all of each question's answer choices, do scratch work in the test book and work at a ____ pace.
What is steady pace.
500
Hoping to ---- the dispute, negotiators proposed a compromise that they felt would be---- to both labor and management. (A) enforce..useful (B) and..divisive (C) overcome..unattractive (D) extend..satisfactory (E) resolve..acceptable
What is (E) resolve..acceptable.
500
Which of the following must be true for all values of x? (look on board)
What is (D) II and III only.
500
Senator Garcia has four _children, two whom have_ decided to follow their father into public service. (A) children, two of whom have (B) children, and two of whom have (C) children, whereas two of them have (D) children; of them, two having (E) children; however, two having
What is (A) children, two of whom have.
500
In the xy-plane above, points O, A, and B are the three vertices of a triangle. The coordinates of A and B are (6, p) and (6, -p), respectively, where p is a positive number. If the area of ____ is greater than 9 but less than 10, what is one possible value of p?
What is 3/2
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