Experimental?

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<p>What is the experimental?
I kind of sort of know...but not really</p>

<p>Does your getting it wrong or write effect your score?</p>

<p>How does it work?
Thanks.</p>

2

<p>It is unscored. </p>

<p>It is a section that the Collegeboard uses to test out new types of questions.</p>

3

<p>instead of taking points off for wrong answers, the College Board executes one kitten for each incorrect response</p>

4

<p>Nate, i can smell the nerd just wafting off of you.</p>

<p>Do you get credit for right answers?
:P</p>

5

<p>No, it is not scored.</p>

6

<p>But I Probably Got It Right :/</p>

7

<p>ugh I was so upset today when I found out that Emily Bronte CR passage was an experimental! It was so easy too!!</p>

8

<p>what was that one about?</p>

<p>and the entire section was experimental?</p>

9

<p>mine was either section 2 or 3 (both 25 minutes/ 20 questions math sec,)</p>

10

<p>Woah, how do you know which one was experimental?</p>

11

<p>for CR, i assume that it was the one with 23 questions. because i know that the CR is supposed to be 24,24,19 questions....</p>

12

<p>how many es sections are on each exam? do all test takers get the same es?</p>

13

<p>the collegeboard is supposed to put all the test versions on its site a few days after the test (there are usually 5 versions). and they tell you the exp. section that came with each version.</p>

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how many es sections are on each exam? do all test takers get the same es?

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<p>one in each test (out of 10 sections) and it depends on which version of the test you got. I was doing math section when the rest of the kids around me were doing english and vise versa.</p>

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<p>Your experimental was one of the sections that you had more than the usual number. If you had 4 CR, one was experimental. If you had 4 M, one was experimental. If you had 3 W, one was experimental.</p>

15

<p>im not a fan of the experimental aspect. i probably spent a really long time on a hard one that was experimental and it screwed up my actual scores. do you like how optimistic i am...?:D</p>

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<p>I figured the emily bronte was the experimental cuz it had 23 questions
the other sections had 24,24,19 for a total of 67</p>

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<p>the college board posted the experimental sections on its website</p>

<p><a href="http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/sat/after/highlights.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/sat/after/highlights.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>mine was the very first version. I was counting on the fact that sec. 2 would be exp...oh well...</p>

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<p>I do not approve of having an experimental section.</p>