Review over Classroom

Habiba Basir

21h (edited) • PSAT Prep 📝

Clocked in: 6:39 AM

OBJECTIVE:

[LATE] Technique 3 - System of Equations

[LATE] And Step 3 - Command of Evidence

[YESTERDAY] Step 5: Verb Tense

[YESTERDAY] Technique 4 - Ineq., Intercepts, and Vertices

[YESTERDAY] Step 4 - Fiction, Stories, and Poems

Step 6: Modifiers

Technique 4 - Ineq., Intercepts, and Vertices

Step 4 - Fiction, Stories, and Poems

New day, fresh start, hopefully this review will be accurate before I continue on with anything else.

Question 1

Determine if the following is an Independent Clause or a Dependent Clause:

"How she managed to organize the entire event in two days."

B) Dependent Clause✔️

Question 2

Choose the correct punctuation for the blank:

The international conference hosted delegates from Tokyo, Japan ____ Paris, France ____ and Toronto, Canada.

B) Japan; / France;✔️

Question 3

Choose the correct punctuation for the blank:

The community center offered free tutoring programs after school ____ nevertheless, attendance remained surprisingly low throughout the fall semester.

B) school;✔️

Question 4

Choose the correct punctuation for the blank:

His accomplishments are not confined to literature, however ____ he also has a huge social media presence and runs multiple successful businesses.

B) however;✔️

Question 5

Choose the correct punctuation for the blank:

Every person has three basic goals in life ____ eating, sleeping, and breathing.

B) life:✔️

Question 6

Which choice correctly completes the sentence without unnecessary punctuation?

The dog ____ has ruined all of our lives.

B) I bought at the pet store✔️

Question 7

Which choice handles the punctuation around the proper noun correctly?

The legendary Beatle ____ Paul McCartney was known for his beautiful love songs.

C) Beatle Paul McCartney✔️

Question 8

Choose the correct verb form for the blank:

The brand new gaming consoles in the shop window ____ a remarkable amount of attention from passing teenagers.

B) draw✔️

Question 9

Choose the correct verb form for the blank:

The collection of rare vintage comic books ____ in the back of the antique shop, hidden away from casual browsers.

B) sits✔️

Question 10

Choose the correct verb form for the blank:

Neither the head chef nor his sous chefs ____ ready for the surprise restaurant inspection that morning.

B) were✔️

📐 Desmos Math Shortcuts

Question 11

In Desmos, if you want to define a list named a containing the numbers 2, 5, 9, 12, and 17, which syntax should you type?

C) a = [2, 5, 9, 12, 17]✔️

(Completely uneccisry question btw🙄)

Question 12

Which command in Desmos finds the arithmetic average of a defined list a?

C) mean(a)✔️

Question 13

If you type median(a) - mean(a) in Desmos, what calculation is performed?

B) Subtracts the average from the middle value of list a✔️

Question 14

To solve the single-variable equation $x^2 - 7x + 12 = 0$ in Desmos using graphing, what should you enter on line 1?

A) y = x^2 - 7x + 12 (and look for the x-intercepts)✔️

Question 15

When solving an absolute value equation like $\vert{}2x - 7\vert{} = x - 1$ in Desmos by graphing two separate equations ($y = \vert{}2x - 7\vert{}$ and $y = x - 1$), what feature on the graph gives the solutions for $x$?

B) The x-coordinates of the intersection points of the two graphs✔️

Question 16

When solving a system of two linear equations with two variables ($x$ and $y$) in Desmos, how do you locate the exact $(x, y)$ solution pair?

B) Graph both equations and click on the intersection point of the two lines✔️

Question 17

What is the primary rule regarding external knowledge (like historical dates or scientific concepts you learned in class) when answering PSAT reading questions?

B) Ignore outside knowledge completely and rely strictly on what is stated in the passage text✔️

THATS ENNOUGH OF CIRCLEING THIS REVIEW QUESTION, IT WAS A ONE TIME MISTAKE. I"VE LEARNED MY LESSON THE MOMENT I GOT IT WRONG😡 IM NOT STUPID 😭

Question 18

When evaluating answer choices on a reading passage question asking for a main claim or specific detail, which type of answer choice should you eliminate immediately?

B) An answer choice that introduces facts not mentioned in the text or uses extreme language✔️

The type of question was that??????? Ofcourse I know that. Such a waste of a question spot. Could've used a real question 🙄

Question 19

On a two-part "Command of Evidence" reading question, what must be true about the quote you select in Part 2?

B) It must directly and explicitly support the specific claim chosen in Part 1✔️

Question 20

When a reading question asks for the function or purpose of a specific sentence in a passage, what should you focus on?

B) Identifying the structural role the sentence plays (e.g., introducing a contrast, elaborating a point, counteracting a claim)✔️

very ironic how the previeous question told me not to pick the longest answer. Look how that turned out XD

20/20 100%

Review was so easy I could call it a warm up 😭✌️ Horrible, horrible question, way to stupidly easy and non-essential. I'll just move on.

Technique 3 - System of Equations

No video notes bc that might've been the easiest video of my life. I can retain all this in my head, nothing comptecated just yet.

Solve for x and y:

2x + y = 7

x – y = 1

(2.67,1.67)✔️ (now, I had to move around the 2nd equation. Later on question like these will have more steps to it, leading to me being unable to solve it. So I should learn another/faster way to solve this without having to resetup the equation.)

Solve for x and y:

y = x^2 – 4

y = 2x + 1

(-1.45, -1.9)✔️ & (3.4,7.9)✔️

Solve for x and y:

x^2 + y^2 = 25

y = x + 1

(-4, -3)✔️ & (3, 4)✔️

Solve for x and y:

y = 2^x

y = x + 4

(-3.9, 0.065)✔️ & (2.7, 6.7)✔️

Solve for x and y:

y = 2x + 1

y = 2x + 5

Same slope, no solutions. ✔️

5/5 100%

I learned this stuff in middle school. I'm sure we'll get to the harder ones later in the lessons.

Clocked out: 7:23 (I realized I'm doing this on a empty stomach ;-;)

Clocked back in: 9:32

Step 3 - Command of Evidence

Wow. at the start of the video he recomnded watching his paggage reading video before this. because Im a great student, I shall. Time to go on a side quest 🥲

Damn. I can't find that video with the enchanted book on it. oh all. Ill just continue watching step-3.

Never mind, I found it, it was just on his other chanel. 1 hour 😅 phew. Its okay, I'll go through every second.

how to solve any SAT passage question (full masterclass)

Great video. The begining was really repative beccause it was something I already knew. He uses the same explanitions alot. But atleast I have it in my head more. I struggled a bit in the peom section.

ok, now lets move onto Command of Evidence.

Clocked out: 10:56 (Dentist)

Clocked in: 1:40

I'll resuming watching the provided video under it.

wowie, we're switching to aniko now I see. I'll hop on it then :D

Question 1:

In a short story, Jonas is leading an effort to restore a ferry once operated by his grandmother. A literary critic claims that Jonas publicly presents the restoration as an economic venture but privately gives greater priority to preserving his family’s history.

Which quotation from the story would most effectively support the critic’s claim?

C) “Jonas’s grandmother had piloted the ferry for three decades, and her brass compass had remained carefully wrapped in a storage box since her retirement.” ✖️

ANSWER: A) “At the council meeting, Jonas projected ticket revenue for the restored ferry; later, instead of revising the budget as promised, he spent hours installing his grandmother’s brass compass in the cabin.”

-> I was gonna pick a but I second guessed myself :P

Question 2:

To investigate how sunlight affects plant growth, a horticulture student grew identical seedlings under different amounts of sunlight per day. After three weeks, the student recorded the average height (in centimeters) of the seedlings at each sunlight level. The graph shows the results.

Based on the graph, the student claims that increasing sunlight from 2 hours per day to 6 hours per day increased the average seedling height by about 5 centimeters.

Which choice most effectively uses data from the graph to justify the underlined claim?

A) The average height was about 7 cm at 2 hours and about 12 cm at 6 hours, an increase of about 5 cm. ✔️

Question 3:

A café chain tested whether a redesigned menu board would change what customers order. For four weeks, the café used its standard menu board; then it installed a new design that placed pastries at the top and used larger photos.

The café tracked the percentage of orders that included a pastry and the percentage of orders that included coffee each week for eight weeks total.

Managers concluded that introducing the redesigned menu board increased pastry ordering but did not meaningfully change coffee ordering.

Which choice best describes data in the graph that support the managers’ conclusion?

A) From weeks 1–4 to weeks 5–8, the percentage of orders with a pastry increases from about 18–20% to about 34–37%, while the percentage of orders with coffee stays about 62–64% in both periods. ✔️

Question 4:

Using stable isotope analysis of preserved barley grains from Archaic-period settlements along the lower Indus River, archaeobotanist Leena Patel and colleagues found unexpectedly low 13C/12C ratios—values that typically indicate crops experienced little water stress. Because paleoclimate data show limited rainfall in the region around 4000 BCE, Patel’s team argues that local farmers must have practiced organized flood irrigation centuries earlier than previously documented.

Which finding, if true, would most directly support Patel’s conclusion?

D) A complex network of earthen canals dating to about 4000 BCE is discovered adjacent to the settlements where the barley grains were collected. ✔️

Question 5:

Birdsong “dialects”—local variations in a species’ song—are sometimes explained as the product of genetic differences between populations. Biologists Nira Okoye and Marcus Feldman tested that idea in a study of a songbird living in two adjacent river valleys separated by a low ridgeline. The valleys’ vegetation and ambient noise were similar, and genetic sampling indicated frequent interbreeding across the ridgeline. Yet the researchers found a sharp boundary between two distinct song dialects: males recorded on one side almost never sang the other side’s dialect. Okoye and Feldman did not conclude that biology plays no role in song production, but they argued that in this case the persistence of the boundary was best explained by young birds learning songs locally and then conforming to the dialect most common where they settle.

Which finding, if true, would most directly support Okoye and Feldman’s argument?

D) Juvenile males captured in one valley and moved to the other before they began practicing songs later sang the moved-to valley’s dialect, not the dialect typical of their valley of birth. ✔️

4/5 80%

That's okay. Time to move onto the next one.

Step 5: Verb Tense

Oh shoot, I already watched the video. Let me check if I did the questions too. Nope I didn't Let's do them then.

1. The election ____ next week. All of my friends cannot wait to vote in it.

B) occurs ✖️ (I accidently saw the answer)

2. I ____ my girlfriend at the airport an hour ago. An hour before that, she had sent me a text message confirming my plane had arrived safely.

C) met✔️

3. The legendary professor Fernando van Heisenberg III ____ over fifteen billion books before his untimely death in 1942.

A) wrote ✔️

4. Every now and then, I ____ at the clock to see how many hours I have left of this miserable psychology class.

A) check ✔️

5. It has been over 67 years since the first TikTok Rizz Party ____. I am now an old and crusty, dusty man, but at the party I was young and spry.

D) happened ✔️

4/5 80%

I'll redeem myself:

The new community garden ____ next spring, and many local residents have already signed up to volunteer.

B) opens ✅

NEXXXTTTTT

Technique 4 - Ineq., Intercepts, and Vertices

yay only 4 minutes.

Clocked out: 2:19

Clocked in: 4:03

Is (2,5) in the solution set for the inequalities below?

y ≤ 2x + 3

y > -x + 1

yes✔️

Find the x-intercepts of:

y = x^2 – 5x + 6

(2,0)✔️ & (3,0)✔️

Find the y-intercepts of:

y = -3x + 7

its 7, You can find it in thee equation. ✔️

Find the vertex of:

y = (x – 4)^2 – 9

(4,-9)✔️

Is (2, 5) in the solution set for the inequalities below?

y ≥ x^2 – 4

y ≤ 2x + 6

yes✔️

5/5 100%

NEXTT

Step 4 - Fiction, Stories, and Poems

clocked out: 4:09

Clocked in: 5:58

Wait, Im gonna stop myself here. Is reviewing over the classroom even worth it?? My Sat is on the 26th. 26-15=11 days left. out of the 11 days, 5 of them I have no school. so that's like guaranteed 4 hours to myself to study. For school days, maybe 2 hours for that. 5*4= 20. 6*2=12. 20+12=34 hours. (If I'm not able to find time after school, I'll just have my guaranteed 20 hours.)

John videos (that I have left to cover):

9:33

8:48

8:34

2:46

17:48

16:47

13:25

13:10

5:07

55:48=

151:46 -> 2h,31m,46s of just pure yapping.

Clocked out 6:22

Clocked in: 6:44

Ok nevermind, I think I have time to watch his videos. After rethinking, they're very useful. Idk why I doubted that. Anyways, I'll continue with the poems.

The Reading Passage Course Day 5.

1. Beatrice arranged the manuscript pages on the kitchen table for the seventh time that morning, aligning their edges with the deliberate precision of someone who knew the work was finished but could not yet bear to call it so. Her sister would arrive at noon. The pages would stay on the table or be tucked back into the drawer beneath the window — Beatrice had not yet decided which.

Which choice best describes Beatrice's state of mind?

C) She believes the manuscript is complete but feels reluctant to commit to sharing it. ✔️

2. The following is an original poem, "The Gardener at Eighty."

I planted these in nineteen sixty-three —

The maple by the gate, the pear, the plum —

Believing then that I would live to see

Each tree mature, and watch their seasons come.

The maple towers now; the pear has died;

The plum is gnarled but blooms with stubborn flame.

What I had thought was patience was, beside

The trees' slow work, impatience all the same.

Which choice best states the main theme of the poem?

B) The speaker has come to see his earlier sense of patience as inadequate compared to the trees' slow growth. ✔️

3. Henrik had been the village blacksmith for thirty-one years, and in that time he had developed a reputation for refusing work he considered beneath him. He would not shoe horses for travelers passing through. He would not mend cookware. When the mayor's nephew came to him with a broken belt buckle, Henrik examined it for a long moment, then set it on the counter and went back to his forge without a word. Yet for the children of the village, he would forge whatever scrap of nonsense they imagined — tin swords, hinged dragons, miniature crowns — and accept no payment beyond their laughter.

What is the function of the final sentence in the text as a whole?

B) It complicates the portrait of Henrik established earlier in the text. ✔️

4. The following text is adapted from an 1898 short story by Eleanor Faye Mortimer.

Cousin Albert had come for dinner again, and again he had brought his theories. Tonight it was the question of whether civilization had improved the moral character of mankind; last week it had been the migratory patterns of certain river fish. Marguerite poured the soup and made the appropriate sounds at the appropriate intervals. She had long since learned that Albert required no audience — only the appearance of one — and that her own thoughts, if she kept them quiet enough, could be conducted entirely in parallel with his speech, like a second river running beside the first.

Which choice best describes Marguerite's attitude toward Albert?

A) She admires the breadth of his intellectual interests and looks forward to his visits. ✖️

ANSWER: C) She has accommodated his behavior in a way that requires little real engagement from her.

Prediction: "Appropriate sounds at the appropriate intervals," "Albert required no audience — only the appearance of one," and the parallel-river image all point to the same thing: she's developed a method for being present without participating. Not admiration, not offense — accommodation.

5. The following is an original poem, "After the Concert."

The applause has thinned. The hall is half-emptied,

The cellist gathering her music with the slow

Particular care of someone who has nothing

She is hurrying toward. I watch her go,

Her case slung crosswise, footsteps unhurried,

Past the conductor making his small jokes,

Past the program seller, past the heavy doors —

And realize, only then, that I had stayed

Not for the music, which had ended an hour past,

But to see what the musician did when no one

Was supposed to be watching anymore.