<p>Godot and tokenadult, </p>
<p>You are tutors and token adults, respectively. I am an SAT-taking student. I got 1520 the first time and 1580 the second time. I got 1580 because I missed exactly two problems. I missed both because I omitted a prime when listing them during the test. </p>
<p>Godot, we didn't say we were "outwitting the test". Not even close. But I'm sure you "as an SAT tutor" know full well that time on the SAT is as important as time in an athletic race: every second, and fraction of a second, really does count. Furthermore, you as a sensible adult (presumably) no doubt know that it takes about one minute to list a handful of primes in one's TI. It also takes about one minute to post on CC. So you'd say that by spending these three or four minutes programming and typing, we are losing fifty points? Fifty? You sure? Not twenty, thirty, but a full fifty? Gotcha. (Do keep in mind that most people consider CC'ing a component of their leisure time, not their studying time.) Oh, and you <i> as an SAT tutor </i> surely were kidding when you said "one (if there is one) prime number question". I don't suppose you've opened Ten Real recently? I don't suppose you were there at the most recent SAT, when there were at least five questions on primes? Furthermore, you say, "You will miss the question not because you don't know the prime numbers, but because you miss the logic of the question." Well, I am living proof that you're wrong, as are several of my friends, who made the same mistake. By the way, by your logic, you, too, should be doing something more productive than posting on a college message board for high schoolers. But I suppose it's all a matter of priorities ;) </p>
<p>Token adult--if you consider time during the SAT a small potatoes worry, I don't know what in college admissions you consider a big potatoes worry. I repeat, writing a rudimentary program for TI (oh wait, I just meant entering it, seeing as there is only one line of code which has been written for you) takes about one minute--probably one-fifth as long as it took you to write your post (and with those five minutes God knows you should have been reading!)</p>
<p>Sincerely,
claret quilty</p>
<p>First score: 800V 720M
Second score: 800V 780M
Further: 800 Math IIC, 800 Writing</p>