<p>Good luck, guys!</p>
<p>tommesiter, what was your projected SAT score?</p>
<p>HAHAHAHAHA!! I am so screwed! :D</p>
<p>How'd it go for you guys?</p>
<p>lol I'm guessing it didn't go very well...??</p>
<p>What happened?</p>
<p>What happened? I'll tell you on the 29th. :p</p>
<p>It went almost exactly as I thought it would. The mathematics was easy, the reading was almost all easy, with one or two hard questions, and the verbal was harder; the synomyns were harder than the analogies. Sometimes, you just don't know the words, and there isn't a bloody thing you can do about it. It's a "idiosyncasy" (or something of that sort) of the SSAT. Idiosyncasy is a hard word, and you can't memorize the definition in advance. Mostly the test was just long and nerve-racking.
ChaosTheory, is the 29th when we review our scores? I hope it's sooner, though it probably isn't.</p>
<p>Isn't it idiosyncrasy? Like.. a habit?</p>
<p>I believe it means behavioral attribute, or the general behavior of. Too bad I didn't remember this during the test. </p>
<p>Actually, I've had the flu for the past 4 days, my birthday included. I woke up this morning with an massive headache and a 102+ fever. I could barely walk to the test center. I took it anyway; otherwise there would be problems.</p>
<p>I don't know how I did. I'm fairly sure I did well in reading. Mathematics just couldn't get through my mind; I may have slipped a few mistakes here and there. I left about three blank on the vocabulary section. Vocabulary is the main section that I'm worried about. It's going to haunt me for the next few days. At least I have the satisfaction of writing a good essay. Ah, well. We shall see.</p>
<p>Yes, I believe it is the 29th. Eighteen days of pain. :p</p>
<p>I've had the flu, too. I stayed home from school yesterday. I probably vomited 10 times. I would sleep for thirty minutes, wake up, vomit, and do it all over again for the whole day. Like clockwork, really. My temperature was 101.4, but I'm feeling better today.</p>
<p>Gosh, ChaosTheory, you shamed me out of feeling sorry for myself. I had was all angry that my entire life could possibly be determined by what I did in a thirty minute period (the verbal section) at the age of thirteen. Then I realized that I was lucky, because I took it feeling perfectly fine (excepting nerves). Sorry you had to test in misery. Not fair. Well, if it's any consolation, you can realize if your scores are lower than you think they should be, you know that it was because you were very ill. Nineteen more days . . . they're torturing us on purpose, aren't they? You'll probably still do great; then I can feel sorry for myself again, when I score worse than you, even feeling fine.
Afternote:
What were other people's essay questions? Mine was "Changing is the most difficult thing for people to do" (agree or disagree). I agreed.</p>
<p>Mine was "It is more important to know what you cannot do than what you can."</p>
<p>I agreed. It was pretty good; very poetic. :) But I bombed the actual test. XD</p>
<p>My essay topic on the SSAT (yesterday) was "You must expect things of yourself before you can do them."</p>
<p>Not sure of the exact wording but my daughter's topic was something about how encouragement can be more productive than criticism in some circumstances.</p>
<p>Interesting note from her was that she had a math question that she thinks was written wrong. Didn't think it was solvable as written. Thought she knew what they had intended to write given the answer choices. She left it blank though.</p>
<p>Interesting. I didn't find any mathematics problems that were unanswerable. Perhaps she had a different version or something of that sort. I did find one where the answer was (E), Impossible to Determine from Given Information. If your daughter has any more details, please let me know.</p>
<p>I had one "Impossible to Determine from Given Information" as well. :)</p>
<p>I knew of one boy who had taken the SAT and actually found a problem that had two answers. He must have been really smart or really bored (in finding out that two answers worked). In any case, he submitted the problem to The College Board and each person who took the same test automatically received 10 points (amount a question is worth).</p>
<p>I will ask her about "Impossible to Determine from Given Information" as a choice. I would like to think she would have picked that up as the answer if it was one of the choices. Don't know what the exact wording of the problem was but it was something like a cartload of X apples costs $6, how much does 12 apples cost? It is possible she just spaced out. I am pretty comfortable she did fine on the math regardless of whether she missed that one or not. It is her verbal score that I think is a lot more up in the air.</p>
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<p>Nah, I've seen people get in with all sorts verbal scores.... (70+ is fine)
What really matters is your overall score.
Can't you get 99% on math and reading, and 70% in vocab and still score 94%+?</p>
<p>I believe I had that question. It wasn't the one I had with the answer not there. Perhaps I got it wrong, but I believe at least my test version had the correct answer.</p>
<p>I had that apples problem too!! But I did find the answer. I think it was 72 divided by something.</p>
<p>Last year I got 99 on Verbal, 99 on Reading, and 85 on Math, and I got an 98 percentile.</p>