General comments on the Jan 28th SAT?

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<p>My essay sucked. My prompt was something along the lines of 'is it necessary to make mistakes even if they may have negative consequences on other people?' Like what?!?!?! I came up with some bull about how I slacked off during school and how I did badly for the exams blah blah and how I learned from it (what a bad Hallmark movie) and wrote something else about the law and how it's important that judges don't make mistakes blah blah. It sucked.</p>

<p>Math sucked for me too. I'm Asian but I've never been good at Math. And when I found out I had FOUR Math sections, I really felt like killing someone.</p>

<p>CR and Writing (barring the essay) were easy. Surprisingly, the more difficult sentence completions on the CR sections (the last question) weren't that difficult; I only had to guess one of them. </p>

<p>All in all, it was easier than the practice tests I did in the blue book. The essay, though, is better left forgotten. What a nightmare.</p>

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<p>To me, the writing identifying errors is always the hardest and trickiest parts. The rest of writing was a breeze.</p>

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<p>If the CR section was harder than usual, does that mean 1 wrong will be less than 800?</p>

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<p>For my essay, I used an example with The Manhatten Project and Thomas Edison.</p>

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<p>I actually thought that CR was very easy compared to the blue book and the bulletin booklet.. but I might have done stuff wrong.</p>

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<p>I left 4 blank lines between my 4th paragraph and my conclusion on the SAT essay. I wrote only 2 sentences for the 4th paragraph. I had 2 examples. Is this bad?</p>

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<p>I took the SAT yesterday. I was doing the Math and I realized that some of the questions (at least 2) looked familiar. Do they really repeat questions from previous testings?</p>

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<p>There were definitely some repeat Math questions, with tweaked numbers here and there.</p>

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<p>W was very easy</p>

<p>CR the passages were easy, vocab had some difficult words but only one word or pair ever made any sense.</p>

<p>Math was easy but I made two stupid mistakes (bye bye 800 streak)</p>

<p>360-80 does not equal 240 lol.</p>

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<p>I guess ETS wanted middle schoolers to feel better of themselves lol.</p>

<p>The saying that January SAT is the easiest doesn't seem to be a complete irrelevant hoax.</p>

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<p>I'm pretty sure the SAT was just like any other SAT. It's relative. I doubt ETS made this SAT easier just for middle schoolers.</p>

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<p>It is easier lol. My former SAT tutor, who worked for ets, said so.</p>

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<p>Was the essay specifically about science???</p>

<p>I used one example, Mozart. I talked about how his renewed devotion to music created new works of pure genius. Every last line was filled up, had to write small in the last corner. Any ideas on how I did if it was/wasn't specifically scientific?</p>

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<p>Same here, I did not see the science part. I talked about the ancient Greeks, made up a quote from the Summa Theologica, and gave a personal experience.... At least it was my first time.</p>

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<p>Heh, now I'm worried... I thought i had an 10+ on that essay for sure...</p>

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<p>bump on it specifically being science...</p>

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<p>I wrote about being musical, lol.</p>

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<p>I went about 4/3 too, and I used Edison (light bulb), Newton (gravity), and a semi-fabricated story about a friend of mine as examples of extreme focus...</p>

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<p>How do you write about three examples in 4/3 page? I had trouble fitting even one.</p>

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<p>I used to do 3 examples, on practice essays, and the way to condese them all is to write very concisely and get straight to the point. However, I like one better because it allows you to go more indepth, and really develop a strong work.</p>