<p>@someguy See that’s what I thought. All of you who got it right, don’t need to worry about a “harsher” curve. We are trying to get it nullified to be fair. The curve was already determined before hand any way, so us doing better would have NO effect on others.</p>
<p>@grojos @nihility The curve is DEFINITELY set ahead of time. If a problem is nullified it becomes a point for everyone, but it would still be out of same number. Your score wouldn’t decrease if it is nullified.</p>
<p>@miceman suppose the curve is set, Nihilty’s argument still stands: the better others do, the less valuable my score. It’s “selfish” but I dont care. “selfish” has a very negative undertone to it, I’m just looking out for my own interests</p>
<p>LOL The worse we do makes you guy look better? Don’t you think that is such a miniscule and irrelevant idea? I am pretty sure we all agree that some SATs are harder than others, thus some people may get better scores than people who are more qualified but took a harder test, yet it obviously doesn’t have thay large of an impact otherwise people would have complained and Collegeboard would have done something.</p>
<p>Thank you for saying that grojos. So what I understood is that you are not truly considering the validity of our argument. Instead, you are just worrying about us outperforming you. Interesting.</p>
<p>@jkim said pretty much exactly what the problem is. The main point of the SAT is to test your aptitude in the three subject areas. There should be no outside factors. Like the question about the population of New York and what percentage was Asian. You didn’t need any outside info to solve that one. For the calorie one it is ambiguous. I like many others genuinely thought they were separate categories. I thought just calories might refer to say carbohydrate calories, while calories from fat referred to fat. Even though this may be common knowledge for some, it shouldn’t require it. I remember grojos mentioning the simple examples to counter us. If those were the questions, it would have been fair. However, it was ambiguous for many people. Many of my friends also made the same mistake because they did not know the difference. We are not asking the Collegeboard to nullify it because we hate those of you that got it right. We are not trying to cost you all points. Numerous people including myself has pointed out that it doesn’t affect the curve. We want to try to get the points back for what we feel is an unfair question. Even if we don’t get the points back maybe the Collegeboard will not put a similar question on in the future. The only effects can be positive.</p>
<p>@grojos @nihility Are you really worried about how the scores of others on ONE SAT could affect your chance of getting into college? It would literally have no affect on you.</p>
<p>We finished discussing the validity of your argument, we are now discussing our motivations. If i had no motivation to question your argument, I wouldn’t. I was explaining my point of view.</p>
<p>For others out there that aren’t “selfish” and don’t think that this minuscule score increase will impede your chances of college (again, it really doesn’t) please email <a href="mailto:satquestion@info.collegeboard.org">satquestion@info.collegeboard.org</a> to say that it was unfair. It will not negatively affect your score.</p>
<p>If “calories” meant “carbohydrate calories” it would’ve specified that. You make asumptions for EVERY math problem, why didn’t you assume that if they didn’t say carbohydrate calories they didn’t mean carbohydrate calories?</p>
<p>Not concerned about “chances” I just want a score that I’m satisfied with and won’t have to take the test again</p>
<p>@HS class 2013,</p>
<p>If this question is out the total score is still out of the 54 raw points, but everyone gets 1 free point. This is set up so that the curve does not change. Before I proceed to contact the collegeboard about this question, I do want to warn you. This SAT test will be looked unfavorably upon by college admin and adcoms since scores will be different. The discrepancy will be noted on the score report. Are you sure about this, do you want me to continue?</p>
<p>Everyday knowledge is in fact required for many math problems. Granted, this problems may have required “less common” outside information than most, it is not some new occurrence to have outside info involved. </p>
<p>Why would anybody not affected by this waste their time emailing for you…
Go waste your afternoon and make 20 separate email accounts and send multiple messages to CB. The result will be no different.</p>
<p>@china- Are you saying that they won’t go back and look at who got the individual question wrong, but will just add a raw point to EVERYBODY’s score? So if I missed nothing I would have more raw points than the actual test was out of?</p>
<p>^this.</p>
<p>I’ll email them if I get an extra raw point even though I got it right. You guys have a valid argument and the question was bad, I just don’t really care either way. And I’m definitely not going to email them asking NOT to drop it, like someone suggested before, that’s just being a dick.</p>
<p>That question was one of the easiest questions on the test and if you missed it due to your own stupidity that is your fault. It was a nutrition label. Nutrition labels are designed so that even the least educated americans can understand them.
It said: calories and then below: calories from fat. What exactly was unclear? What if the question was about cars in a parking lot and the question said: Cars - 45 and below: Cars from Germany - 12 would you add them together to get the total number of cars before dividing them?</p>
<p>guys thats what the data posted by someguy earlier was about</p>
<p>the curve is already preset, so thats not gonna change. Its just that the question will be nullified by giving an additional point to the raw score. </p>
<p>For the people who already got it right, they wont be affected one bit because they already have the raw point from getting the question right.</p>
<p>Its a win win situation for both sides…</p>
<p>Emailing and asking not to drop the question is a good idea. I didn’t read that yet. Where should I contact them at?</p>
<p>Please do not use profanity on threads.
@Nihility
You will not get an extra raw point if you got the question right. It is as if this question never existed and everyone started off at one point. I have emailed them and spoke to one of their officers. They will “look into it” and I will get an answer tomorrow. I am puzzled if you missed the question and you are an American, but sorry if you are an International from Israel.</p>
<p>exactly! .</p>