<p>Is the Writing experimental section the one with the (IMP Paragraphs) skateboard or the hybrid cars. I felt the skateboard one was a little "off". Any help would be great.</p>
<p>I had the hybrid car one and i had the CR experimental, so skateboard must have been experimental for W.</p>
<p>I don’t remember the skateboard one. But I thought the ES might be the reading section with the passage from Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘The Namesake’ in it. (It talked about Gogol Ganguli, changing names, etc). Seeing as thats a relatively new book (2003) and was also made into a movie (2006), it seems unconventional for SAT. I was just suprised to see a passage from a book I had actually read on the SAT.</p>
<p>^Yeah I read the book too! But no, it’s not experimental. Check out the CR discussion thread, the really long one.</p>
<p>the gogol one wasnt an experimental and i got that (gogol) changing name as an experimental on may sat</p>
<p>or something similar</p>
<p>You can tell if a section is experimental by the number of sections and the total number of questions. For example, if you already had three writing sections total, then one is definitely experimental, which means in that case critical reading cannot be experiemental, just because it covers relatively new literature.</p>
<p>For the writing section, there is no real way to tell which of the 35-question sections is experiemental because they have the same number of question s (35+14=49)</p>
<p>Math questions always add up to 54 so, for example, if you had four sections with 19, 20, 19, and 16 questions respectively (the 16-question one always counts), then the experiemental one would be the 20-question one because (19+19+16=54). </p>
<p>Critical reading questions always add up to 67 so, for example, if you had four sections with 24, 25, 24, and 19 questions respectively (the 20-minute section at the end always counts), the experimental section would be the 25-question one because (24+24+19=67).</p>
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<li>There are always only three real critical reading and math sections, and two real multiple-choice writing sections (the long one and the very last section). The other sections are the essay section and the experimental.</li>
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<p>Basically, you have to take time during the test to do the math to figure out which section is experimental, which wastes time. So you can really only know if you memorized the number of questions in each section and added them up.</p>
<p>^ I think the section from the May SAT you are thinking about was about that Indian writer, but it wasn’t about Gogol. They were just both Indian. But I may be wrong.</p>
<p>i think I got a experimental math section. It asked how far line m was from line l and there was a line in between that measured 4. I was like, " what kind of question is this?"</p>
<p>hey freakchild:</p>
<p>there is always one 20 minute section for math and cr.</p>
<p>I had that section too! But it def. was not experimental for me because I had 2 long writing sections.</p>
<p>lol…</p>
<p>yo do u know what the math section experimental was?
like do u remember any questions from the real ones?
so i can know which one was the experimental one?
i had 4 so u can help me out lol?</p>
<p>@civomorth: i don’t think that one was experimental, 'cause I had it and I had experimental CR. That’s the question I got wrong. I think I put 7… was that one of the answer choices?</p>
<p>@xrCalico23 and @civomorth</p>
<p>I thought that question was very ambiguous since it did not specify whether the distance between point T and line L was supposed to be a minimum distance or not. The minimum distance between point T and line L was 4, however any number greater than 4 was a valid answer since the definition of distance is the space between two points, not a line (i.e. the line goes on infinitely in both directions) and a point.</p>
<p>Did any of you guys remember the question differently?</p>
<p>I think it was just an easy question. It didn’t specify any point, so assume they mean the shortest distance, which is 4.</p>
<p>hjlee1992:</p>
<p>Yeah, I know. I just didn’t say that about math.</p>
<p>Basically, we can’t determine experimental sections unless we know which version of the test we took, because some passages/questions are on some tests but not on others.</p>
<p>Dr Locktagon, i think u were right, i also put 4 for the answer, the question was worded very awkwardly, hopefully we are both right >.></p>
<p>Im pretty sure I had writing for experimental, because I had 4 writing sections. The essay, the 10 min one, and two 35 question ones. I dont remember reading any passage about skateboards though!</p>
<p>And I was pretty shocked to see a passage from The Namesake too. Didn’t expect to find something from a book I’ve read! But all the same, I found it easy. :)</p>
<p>what was the CR experimental about? I’m still trying to figure out which experimental section i had :(</p>