<p>I was taking the SATs today (October 6th), and when I finished a Math section, I felt like I couldn't get it out of my head - even though I had to stop thinking about it to move onto the Reading. </p>
<p>But the Math was just so much more interesting than some story about why Blackbeard doesn't eat cereal or the subtle and irritating differences between two words (stampede, anyone?). </p>
<p>It was a very strange sensation. Many times when I was reading the passages I found that my mental resources were nearly split in two - half reading the passage - and half thinking about the math problems of sections past. Was there a more algebraically sound way to solve #6? If the constant from #18 was replaced with n would the problem still be solvable? Could I write a program to solve more general cases of #20? </p>
<p>And for many reading sections, I spent the entire 20-25 minutes as a man divided unto himself. Trying desperately to engage the pointless and fluffy drivel of the reading section while being bombarded by thousands of math problems of minutes past - begging passionately to be made more specific - more exact - more abstract - more general - anything that a math problem could ever dream or aspire to be they begged me to make of them. </p>
<p>So yeah, I don't think I did that well on the reading section (even the second to last sentence is a run-on). Does this happen to anyone else?</p>
<p>Math is the only thing that keeps me sane in between crit/writing sections. Not because I like math, but there is a feeling of safety in math. Math always has a definite answer and many paths to that solution, whereas critical reading can be very ambiguous and unclear the majority of the time. Writing is in the middle, except its nerve racking when you mark No Error.</p>
<p>ya. the student response..... i was like this is way too easy. like for the mc, all you had to do was look at the graph (the answer was 2 right?). i guess the rectangle would have been tough without a graphing calc though</p>
<p>yeah. i was retarded and looked at the table for the x intercept <em>sigh</em> what a dummy i am. =( that brings me down to 1 wrong grid in, 1 wrong MC, and 1 omit. which i believe is just a -3 total. woe is me!</p>
<p>i omitted 2, ran out of time to do the equations and area of the shaded triangle. And........ i..... stupidly missed the depth one. i was like depth means volume! so i put 56.6 or w/e the volume would be i feel like a idiot</p>
<p>The depth = 2 because the volume of a cone is 1/3 that of a cylinder. I didn't realize this shortcut and algebraically solved for h, but oh, well.</p>