28 January Critical Reading

Test Preparation
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<p>dexter, this is assuming the probability that you get all 3 wrong. chances are once you've fairly narrowed down the answers and you guess 3 times, you'll guess at least one right, thus youd only lose 2.5 which would round up AND you'd gain one raw. </p>

<p>Also, I took the June SAT and definitely didn't see either of those passage but it might have been one of the different tests. Maybe the topics were similar, the extraterrestial one was a two passage one debating the existence of extraterrestial, and there was no girl's narration.</p>

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<p>You probably took a different version of the June test.Thanks for your recalling.</p>

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<p>Guessing, from a completely statistical and scientific perspective does not, I repeat, does not hurt your score as compared with leaving a question blank. If you are superstitious or anything, well that's another story. Let's look at it as simple as possible.</p>

<ol>
<li>My bedroom curtains are ------- which allows the streetlight to illuminate my room at night.</li>
</ol>

<p>A. copious ... . ...............wrong answer -.25
B. diaphanous . ................right answer +1.00
C. pugnacious .................wrong answer -.25
D. shrouded ....................wrong answer -.25
E. torpid .. ....................wrong answer -.25</p>

<p>Since they add up to zero, there is no gain or loss to guessing.
Simply eliminating one answer puts you ahead.</p>

<p>Think of it this way, if you guessed five times, statistically you should get one right and the other four wrong. 1+ 4(-.25)= 0 The same result if you had left the questions blank!</p>

<p>Now, if you eliminated just one answer choice. If you guess on four questions with one wrong answer eliminated you should get one right and three wrong 1+ 3(-.25)=.25 better than leaving them blank!!!</p>

<p>Remember, collegeboard takes off points not to punish wrong answers, but instead to prevent rewarding pure guesswork.</p>

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<p>What do you think the curve on this test will be?</p>

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<p>Hopefully** 800 800 800 790 770 750 730 720 700...</p>

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<p>This was significantly easier than the CR on the October test. I missed like 8 on that and got a 730. I bet I only missed 2-3 on this test. Hopefully, that'll be an 800.</p>

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<p>I hope it will be like:</p>

<p>800
800
800
790
780
760
750
740
730
720
700</p>

<p>That means 8 wrong would be a 700.</p>

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<p>dark, there's no way that's happening lol.</p>

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<p>It typically doesn't go like that. 8 wrong would be a 700, but the numbers in between don't gradually move like that, they have larger jumps. Example:</p>

<p>800
800
790
790
750
730</p>

<p>That sort of thing. At some point there is a considerable drop in points.</p>

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<p>Yeah, i know, but it would be nice.</p>

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<p>I'm pretty sure it doesn't drop 40 points. According to the SAT Preparation Booklet, it's 800 800 800 790 770 750 740 720 710 700</p>

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<p>The scale is not always the same, gxing. Once I got 4 wrong (thus lost 5 raw) and got a 740, which doesn't work on your scale.</p>

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<p>Maybe your SAT C.R. was easier than average?</p>

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<p>Oh god, hardly. Easily the hardest CR I had ever taken. Nonetheless difficulty is subjective, the point being that the scale is never a constant thing between tests.</p>

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<p>The curve varies, but nowhere have I seen a 40 drop.</p>

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<p>Was this C.R. harder or easier than usual? Or average?</p>

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<p>About average, maybe a little on the easy side.</p>

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<p>
[quote]

Oh god, hardly. Easily the hardest CR I had ever taken. Nonetheless difficulty is subjective, the point being that the scale is never a constant thing between tests.

[/quote]

it helps to make every test equal
If your test is really difficult, maybe you just need to have 20 marks to get 500.
But if your test is really easy, maybe you need to get 48 marks to get 500.</p>

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<p>I just want at least 700. It's gonna be close.</p>