***December 2015 SAT (US Only) Thread***

@nervusguy it depends on the college I think, some only show the superscore to admission officers some show all, but remember if your super score is higher its usually higher for more people. Score choice means you choose what to send to colleges unless they require all the scores

Math and CR were easy

but im sure that the curve for reading will be a normal curve and not like the november sat, which was a strict curve. normal curve should be nice

writing however might have an even more gentle curve than last month’s SAT

For the passage about Haiku, I remember I chose industrious

^thats correct. she was hardworking. she cooked and cleaned, but also spent long hours into the night scribbling away at her poems

@800onmath same! erratic or something else didn’t seem to work

Yea agree with @800onmath CR and math were easy. @nervusguy do you remember the curve?

Her mother was staying nights to do her work, so industrious=hardworking is the best answer

For the "If you analyze your dilatory tendencies … " what does the author imply question, what did u guys put? (it was in the procrastination passage)

the curve in november was so harsh. 5 mistakes usually does NOT bring you to a 710. this one should be more like the score chart on prep scholar

@facsimilecoterie did u get an experimental for math???

I cant remember the questions, but I can remember if you guys post CR questions.
For procrastination, I do remember something about plausible but erroneous or something like that

Anyone remember the other Math question that asked if given these two sides which one can/can not become a triangle? The other one gave 6 and 8, answer was 14. I forgot the other one.

@nervusguy

  1. I think you may have misinterpreted the information in the freedictionary site. I am not sure the site is saying that it is wrong to use “compare to” to evaluate sameness or difference. It may be saying that for some people, “compare with” is used to indicate a stronger difference. However, there does seem to be some disagreement among various sources as to whether it is correct to use “compare to” to indicate the evaluation of similarities and differences. Even the Manhattan GMAT people wavered on this and eventually threw out the distinction between “to” and “with”.

  2. Setting this controversy aside, if the wording is “the octopus’ intelligence is comparable to that of some mammals”, then the meaning is that the octopus’ intelligence is SIMILAR TO the intelligence of some mammals. The meaning is not that scientists are weighing up the similarities and differences between octopus and mammal intelligence. In this case, there is nothing controversial. The only correct preposition is “to”.

@800onmath the answer was accurate but incomplete. the second author agreed with the first author on his point, but then said that there could be a further reason for procrastination when talking about how it could be beneficial.

@800onmath dilatory tendencies it was something to do with many people experience the same things as writers

anyone have similar experiences for a cr on procrastination?

It was 14. 6+8 has to be bigger than the third side.

@Plotinus there were also two questions with the word “them” in it- one of them talked about generations and the other one, i can’t remember. did they both have errors in the word “them” or was one of them no error?