Science Savvy
The date of the last solar eclipse.
What is April 8, 2024?
You should use this same instrument every time you practice and while taking the SAT. It's most commonly from Texas.
What is a scientific calculator or calculator?
You don't want this type of person to be your friend.
What is sociopath?
This word describes something that is not pulled apart easily.
What is tenacious?
Not a side, or a salad, or even a candy, but this is used to show number patterns that are the same over and over in long division.
What is a repeat bar?
The type of eclipse can last for several hours and can be seen for several hours and can be seen over much of the planet.
What is a lunar eclipse?
In this new format of the PSAT, you may want to use the PITA method to find solutions. Name the new format and the acronym for PITA.
What is digital and Plug In The Answer?
This word means to give life and energy to something.
What is invigorate?
Only mothers pass this type of DNA to their children.
What is mitochondrial DNA?
To the nearest ones, tens, or hundreds is something that this concept performs. Usually used to estimate monetary amounts.
What is rounding?
The type of specialized language that scientists often use when communicating with each other.
What is jargon?
The number of questions on the PSAT.
What are 98 questions?
The CEO, who created a fake charity to steal money from his company, engaged in this act.
What is subterfuge?
This word means weak, ineffective, worthless, and irresponsible.
What is feckless?
3 different symbols that can be used to show multiplication. Draw these on your board.
What are (), * , x, or a number and variable next to each other (i.e. 3h). Or a dot. Or the word "of" in a word problem.
The names of the moon's shadows that are cast during an eclipse.
What are penumbral and umbral?
The hard rule about cell phones at the PSAT testing site.
What is "no cell phone usage allowed"? or What is "do not bring your cell phone into the testing center"?
In algebra, the process of spreading something out evenly, such as a number or variable, by multiplying each term within parentheses by another term outside the parentheses.
What is distribution?
If I was being fancy, I could say, Let's "meet at an appointed time" and do long division using this acronym. Name the word that means to meet at an appointed time, and the Acronym used for long division.
What is rendezvous? and What is HMS bring down?
A squared plus b squared equals c squared is called this and is used to solve problems with right triangle.
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
The first strategy to use when approaching science passages on the PSAT.
What is "Locate the central idea in the first paragraph."?
The three types of reading comprehension passages discussed in class.
What are US/World Literature, Science, and History/Social Studies?
The acronym K.I.S.S. (Keep IT Simple Soldiers) is an easy way to explain this theory.
What is Occam's razor?
Instead of saying something or someone is irritable and difficult to deal with, you can use this word instead.
What is ornery?
Write the fraction 3/4 as a decimal and a percent.
Write 33.3% as a decimal.
Show your work on your board and explain.
What is .75 and 75%?
What is .333