For those taking the Oct. Test

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<p>I FEEL THE ANXIETY... U FEEL ME?</p>

<p>Lets devote this thread to adding formulas, tips, techinques, skills, words, rules,essay examples- so we can help each other out.</p>

<p>MATH
Geo Seq.- An = A1(r)^(n-1)
Arit. Seq.- An = A1+(n-1)Difference
Xiggi's formula - (2 x Time x Speed 1 x Speed 2) / (Speed 1 + Speed 2)
Arc length - degree/360 x Circumference
Area sector - degree/360 x Area of Circle</p>

<p>WRITING
-Parallelism
-Subj. verb agreement</p>

<p>CR
-Tones of authors are RARELY apathetic, ambiguous, indifferent, confused.</p>

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<p>Uhhh what now?
“-Tones of authors are RARELY apathetic, ambiguous, indifferent, confused.”
Tones are authors are often ambiguous, indifferent and apathetic.
At least from the QAS I took.</p>

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<p>Oh, I read this from my PR book, so perhaps I was wrong. Add anything you can to the lists</p>

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<p>the geom and arith formula is useless -.-
^, they are almost never indifferent lol, but it depends~ most of the time, they’re not ambig,indif, or apath</p>

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<p>Tones are almost never mocking, or critical of the minorities.</p>

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<p>Actually, there was a passage on Martin Luther King (in BB I think) that discussed how everyone is prejudiced to view him as a flawless hero. So, in a way, the author’s tone was critical for the minorities passage.</p>

<p>You just have to decipher the tone for yourself, for each single passage. No shortcuts.</p>

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<p>oh really. I always heard that cb is tryignn not to get a lawsuit so they allways try to be good. But I guess you’re right, gotta use your own judgement BASED ON THE PASSAGE.</p>

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<p>Uttaresh, I have vaguely remember that passage, but I believe the author of the passage was saying people overlook his other achievements when paying attention to his biggest ones.</p>

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<p>Any passage that is speaking about women or a minority group is always positive. </p>

<p>According to the Rocket Review, that is.</p>

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<p>integral of e^x = e^x + C</p>

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<p>^LOL, save that for the AP calc AB test.</p>

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<p>hey all,</p>

<p>i took a SAT prep course held by New Oriental in beijing this past summer and i want to share some helpful pointers i learn about the essay to offset the bad karma ; P</p>

<ol>
<li>don’t try to be fancy…just make the essay structured and simple.
example of how it should be structured (i’m gonna try to reproduce this to the best of my…memory)</li>
</ol>

<p>1st paragraph:
restate the prompt and tie it into your two examples. introduce your examples. thesis.</p>

<p>use the PIE formula for each body paragraph.
P point: state the point of your paragraph
I illustrate your point with examples
E explian your positio, both what it means and how your example supports it.</p>

<p>the second body example should connect to the thesis.</p>

<p>body 2</p>

<p>topic sentence should refer back to the thesis and the first example
another PIE paragraph.</p>

<p>conclusion:
summarize the main points of the essay or explain the implication of your thesis. “in the light of the above example, it is clear the change is not always for the bes. the examples of industrialization and nuclear technology demonstrate that change, while in some ways beneficial, bring about a number of negative consequences.”</p>

<p>tip on picking your example…stick with like 4 people and learn them well.
example, learn everything you can about Henry Ford and his Company, then Steve JObs and apple, BG and microsoft, and Randy Pausch, professor famous for his “last lecture”. learn their life and try to tie it into your prompt.</p>

<p>a essay about success and happiness…randy pausch (battling cancer) and ford (making cars avalible.)<br>
technology/learning from difficulties (Jobs and Ford)
deception turns good (microsoft, and Ford with the start of his company)
questions the ideas of authority (Ford and Jobs vs IBM)
motivation (Ford (there seems to be a pattern) and Job)</p>

<p>those don;t have to the four people, but you see how it can help.
other people: Thomas edison, wright brothers, neil armstrong, </p>

<p>try not to bother with personal history, someone else’s life is probably more exciting than yours, unless that’s not true. </p>

<p>use western european history instead of us history unless it fits really well, same with using american literature instead of european. </p>

<p>also refer to some interesting books. Old man and the sea, even harry potter, LOTR. </p>

<p>historical events taht could be used.
Greece, Spainese armada, Socrates (person), Alexander (person), Gladiators (historic perspectives), fall of rome, black death, Columbus, 1666 fire of london, GW rules of Good behavior, declaration of independence (american revolution could be used, despite me saying that you shouldn;t use american history), waterloo, </p>

<p>that;s what i can think of so far, sorry for being messy, i just typed it up really quick. </p>

<p>PM me if you have question or want some tips on the other sections.</p>

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<p>^wow thats alot =l</p>

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<p>def tagged…</p>

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<p>A tip for people who get whoozy by the last sections of the test (like worn out with exploded brainpower XD):</p>

<ul>
<li>In the sections of the test that you’re super good at (Math, for example), and you know that you will finish ahead of time, try taking 2min breaks in the middle of those sections (close your eyes and stop all neural synpases from overwork), like “breathers” instead of rushing through and checking your work 1029381290837 although you know it’s probably all okay</li>
</ul>

<p>This way you’ll save energy for the last parts of the test. </p>

<p>The method worked for me. Not sure if it’ll help you guys out, but oh well XD</p>

<p>Also, I think the quotes SAT provides for the essay are pretty useless. I don’t know why they stick them there, but as for me and the people I’ve tutored, we’ve gotten pretty decent scores (12s) without bothering to read the quotes. Use the time to plan out something, instead of writing out your skull. </p>

<p>You might think the quotes are helpful, but I suggest just ignoring them (unless you don’t get the question CB is trying to ask).</p>

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<p>here is the reading that i did for someone else…it;s actually summarized..i could do it under 6000 characters…lol</p>

<p>reading has 5 different types of questions.</p>

<p>filled in the blank, 2 words or 1 word</p>

<p>short single passage
single paired passage
long single passage
and long paired passage.</p>

<p>know the difference because you are going to tackle them differently. </p>

<p>filling the blanks: gotta know your vocab…not more to it. know the meaning of the words, starting with all of those in the blue book. then barron’s 3500 or soemthing like that. for two word problems, find the relationship between the two words. negative positive, vise-versa, or positive-postive, negative-negative. find the relationship and match them with a set of words that also match. not more to it, if you know the words, you are better off not using any strategy.</p>

<p>SSP: underline anything that is important to you. espcially changes in idea, or mood/attitude. (this goes for all questions) know the point of view of the author and whether it changes or not. know the topic sentence, there is bound to be a question about it. know the conclusion…to be honest, if it doesn;t ask you for a meaning of a word…you don;t even have to read the middle parts. </p>

<p>spp:
this one, take everything from SP and then compare the two. are the two passages backing each other up, are they dissagreeing or are they agreeing on some points but not other? know how they relate to each other. pay attention to deltas (or changes) of these:
1 attitude
2 relationships
3 view, contents, rhetorics
4 similarities and difference
new view/ old view is very important, usually a few questions on it. </p>

<p>lsp: try to do the question that ask you to define words first. treat it like ssp. you will have about 14 mintues to do them.<br>
1 scan the introductory material, mark useful info…date it was written, who wrote it. this give you an idea of the point of view.
2 read the crucial parts and take notes
3 read the questions and all information related to the question, correspond to the part of the pasage
4 the 5 option and choose the best one.</p>

<p>LPP: you;ll have 15 mitneus or less to answer them. i;m gonna give you some tips, but these also applies for the other types of passage. LPP is easier than LSP but more conprehensive so i can talk about more the important points.</p>

<p>1 go through the question. figure out if they correspond to the first passage or the second or if they are comparing the two.
2 read passage one, answer the question,
3 ready passage two answer the P2 questions
4 answer the conbining quesiton.</p>

<p>importantly, if it asks you to look at certain lines, the answer will usually be in the sentence before it or after it, but it will ALMOST never be contained in the lines it asks you to read.<br>
ex “what does the examples in line 45-47 refer to” of course it’s gonna be refering to the topic that was in front those examples. </p>

<p>when reading the passages, never skip, always skim if short on time.</p>

<p>that’s about it, if i didn;t make my self clear or if you want to know something else, please pm me.</p>

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<p>^ that’s really nice of you :)</p>

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<p>before i do the who writing section, one smart tip</p>

<p>the long section with the edit the paragraph.</p>

<p>do the questions in this order</p>

<p>1: fill in the blanks
2 skip to the Paragraphs
3: the underlined one</p>

<p>the paragraph is there so that just when you began, the proctors will call 5 minutes and you will start to sweat and get nervous and make a lot more mistakes. </p>

<p>i remember i took it last time and 5 minutes was called and i got all nervous but i finished with 3 minutes to spare. thinking back…i know i probably missed one or two that i shouldn;t have.</p>

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<p>i have been studying for the past few hours. taking a break to add a tip</p>

<p>when you are studying, don;t just go through the testes one by one. </p>

<p>get a book and just do one type of problems for all the tests in a row. today i did all of the imporving paragraphs and the underlined in the blue book, and tommarow all of the fill in the blank. this give your brain a deep “memorization” of the questions.</p>

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<p>Another tip, for the long writing sections. Start with the paragraph-edit section first</p>