<p>^Taking difficult into consideration just means that since it was hard for you, it was probably hard for everybody; therefore, the average reading score will be less than usual. So basically, you can miss a lot more than usual and still get a decent score.</p>
<p>I had the same analogy question, but it was flip-flopped. The question was train is to track as…I chose canoe is to river. I agree with all on the “long mile” question and the reading comprehension.</p>
<p>@ markalex:
oh, but … isn’t it taken from within the last 3 years (the scores)? so if there’s just one difficult test / month, it wouldn’t make that much of a difference, right?
or is it just scored every month rather than like, yearly, the way i thought it was …?</p>
<p>@teddy100: You can actually get one wrong on Reading and still get a 99th percentile score…you just won’t get an 800.</p>
<p>@ DiveAlive</p>
<p>Could you be a little more specific. My memory is a bit faulty. What scientists question?</p>
<p>And I chose essay for what would this passage be from. :D</p>
<p>For everyone, what was your essay topic? Mine was, “A funny joke always has a hidden truth value.” I was like =.=". What??? I ended up putting two examples from Catch-22, and a one sentence conclusion. >.></p>
<p>If we’re talking about the guests at parties question as a trick question, I put the answer as 200. Any thoughts?</p>
<p>hmm i dont reallly remember the guests at the party question… i remember the number 350 coming up somewhere…</p>
<p>you basically had to add up the number of all the people taking guests, all the guests, then subtract that from the total number of people who went, right?? something like that…</p>
<p>yeah, that’s what i did, and i got 200. let’s see if anybody else has any feedback.</p>
<p>Any thoughts on the other questions from reading that I mentioned?</p>
<p>@DiveAlive, yes, you are right. Although score are taken from the past three years of applicants, I still think it makes somewhat of a difference if you got a difficult test.</p>
<p>Like I said before, if LOTS more people do bad on the SSAT than usual, it’ll be possible to miss less and still get a high score. Like say for reading, everyone here so far has said that reading was really difficult, therefore, the average percentile will be a lower score, therefore, the 99th% percentile will also be a lower score than usual.</p>
<p>Anyone else have thoughts as to how it all works?</p>
<p>OH MY GOD! @ DiveAlive</p>
<p>I WAS WITH ANOTHER GIRL WEARING UGGS AND ANOTHER BOY!!!</p>
<p>I guess you saw me! But I didn’t see you :(</p>
<p>The exam was at St.George’s School right? :)</p>
<p>@ jerry: hahaha i’d be careful to give the location away 
… well i’ll never know for sure since there were 2 boys there aha, you could be either one 
i was wearing a bright pink cardigan </p>
<p>@ lostinthemusic: yep, i got 200 for party question, i’m pretty sure about that one
uhm, the scientists one was in the article [reading comp] where it was talking about scientists’s majors and how some majors were too focused/pointless/waste of money in this economy, etc. and it was like, where do you think this segment was taken from? magazine editorial, newspaper article, scientists journal, essay … i totally blanked out on most of reading comp
my essay topic was ‘changing is the most difficult thing for a person to do’. that was a great essay topic, i had a lot to write i’m glad i didn’t get an ultra ambiguous essay prompt!</p>
<p>I got “it is easier to get into trouble than it is to get out of it”. I was pretty relieved. I wrote up some stuff about how people hold grudges and destroyed cities won’t rebuild themselves, and added that I “got into trouble with this essay because I thought of a good point 2 minutes for the time ran out”.</p>
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<p>Haha same… I don’t remember what I picked for guests and parties, but I think it was 250. I had this sneaking feeling it was wrong. I basically added up all the people taking guests and subtracted. I probably misread something in the question, I always do that.</p>
<p>And what about that one with the oval? And you had to find KM or something? I picked 20, but since it was an oval and ovals are tricky, I think I might have missed it. The one math question I know with certainty that I got correct was the one about distance from the tree or school or whatever. The answer is that there isn’t enough info-- no computation required.</p>
<p>About the hack and dauber question, I omitted that too because I had NO idea what either word meant. Sucks because it probably would’ve been an easy point if I just knew the words.</p>
<p>oh my essay was super easy: “nothing of value is made without effort”. Piece of cake. I just used some historical examples. Princeton Review’s practice tests gave me way more room than the actual test, but I was okay.</p>
<p>Freaking out about the math…I swear I think I got the tree one wrong. And the oval one too. And the guests one - did it ask for only guests? or total number? I probably read it wrong. Ahhhhhhhhh</p>
<p>As for verbal - what hack and dauber question? That pretty much sums up my experience.</p>
<p>I think I nailed the reading one with the poems though. If you read the questions they gave you, you can kind of figure out what that guy is saying. Basically, he’s saying that a poem is a poem is a poem. It doesn’t matter if it’s Macbeth or the simplistic poem examples. There is no term more superior than Macbeth, and no term inferior for the two examples. Well, that’s just what I got from it. Hopefully that was right. </p>
<p>I’m kind of nervous. On the practice tests I took from SSAT is scored around what would be a 95 percentile. This I’m guessing I got around an 85.</p>
<p>Im taking it January, I’m definitely going to study vocabulary and read lots and lots of poems!</p>
<p>yeah, the hack and dauber one… now i know that it was artist, but it’s much too late 
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<p>haha i actually can’t remember (for the math’s guests and members thing) if i picked 250 or 200, but that was a tricky question-- worded strangely. i know i got the answer right the second time, but you had to count the members bringing the guests as well, not only the guests (which is what the question leads you to believe -> which i fell for the first time)</p>
<p>for the tree one, it was e-> not enough information. phew no math required!
i don’t remember which oval one you’re talking about, heps1996…</p>
<p>oh haha, you’re talking about scientists and their fields of research. I was like, scientists in colleges (majors)??? </p>
<p>and yeah, i put it was from an essay …</p>
<p>DiveAlive, they basically cut an oval into 3-4 sections using straight lines, provided the area for 2-3, and asked you to figure out the last one.</p>
<p>For the guests one, my mistake was that I only counted either just the people bringing guests or the just the guests. I should’ve counted both. Whoopsies. XD Hopefully I only missed that question and a few others.</p>
<p>@ DiveAlive</p>
<p>I forgot what I wore that day -.- But I was the skinnier guy out of the two. :)</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure I didn’t see you Bit of a random question, but are you caucasian?
I think that would definitely make the different because there were A LOT of Asian students there. (including me :)</p>
<p>Anyway,
My topic was “We learn best from our own experiences”</p>
<p>I’m soooooo retaking it in January.</p>
<p>Does anyone remember a math question about adding 360 gallons of kerosene to a tank that was already partially filled?? I got 630 for the answer but I’m not sure. This question has been killing me :(</p>
<p>Scores are back! (If you did electronic delivery)</p>