<p>I'm pretty sure I aced the math section; the questions were suprisingly easy for me!</p>
<p>The reading comprehension was.. well, I think it was okay. I didn't really get that whole 'NYC, human disaster' story, though. It made no sense..</p>
<p>The verbal, however, was a train wreck. I had no idea what some of the words meant (dilapdiated? or something like that), and I'm terrible at analogy. Like, painfully bad at it. I knew I was already beyond repair for analogy, but the vocab sort of hit me.. and to think, all this time, I thought I knew lots of words! D:</p>
<p>The test, in total, was alot easier than I was expecting (except for vocab & analogy. oh dear god, analogy).</p>
<p>I hope I get in the 90's for math, and higher than 50's in analogy.. That's asking for alot, since I'm sure I did pretty badly.</p>
<p>Math: respectable, but not 90's (or maybe it is, I always underestimate test scores.)
Verbal: once again, respectable, but not 90's - I had to omit like 3 or 4.
Reading: aced it. really, I finished with a crap load of time left and check all my answers two, three times and not a single err.
Essay: I'd grade myself an 8/10. I really enjoyed the subject; "Do you learn about yourself through observing others?". I really dug it... had fun. Easily elaborated, well thought out, and last but not least, I <em>actually</em> paragraphed! Haha... everywhere I looked people just had one SOLID block of words.</p>
<p>My topic was different. Mine was about attitude and limitation.
I interpreted it very differently from what it supposed to mean.
I didn't finish one of my body paragraphs, didn't even start writing conclusion.
I kinda left my example paragraph hanging in the middle of the paper too :(</p>
<p>Plus, I did real bad on the verbal.. said this twice. I think I got more wrong than right :'(
For the reading, I finished it in 10 min but I was being so stupid. didn't check my answer at all!! agh!!</p>
<p>Overall, I'm glad I'm done with all the standardized tests. and hopefully I won't have to take SSAT again. My score would probably be in the 70s or 80s.. or even lower... ..</p>
<p>No... the officers don't really care about how long your essay is, just if it is well written or not.
I barely had enough room to write 4 paragraphs, so it's ok :).
This is the SSAT, not the SAT, and the SAT has 2 pages to write on.</p>
<p>I think I did quite well overall...
I'm pretty sure I nailed the math and reading.
The verbal, however, as many others have stated was <em>a bit difficult.</em>
I was a bit upset when I got home from testing and looked up a couple of the synonyms and analogies I guessed on in the dictionary. I got a couple correct, a couple wrong. Oh well. That's life.
For the essay: I also got the topic about learning by observing others. I think I did okay, but I really don't consider it even close to my best work.
Would admissions officers rather see one larger, more developed body paragraph or two to three smaller ones, each with different reasons, to support the topic (include an intro and conclusion paragraph in each response, obviously)?
Just wondering - I only wrote the one body paragraph with a nice intro and conclusion, have small handwriting, and filled up all but a line or two, and was curious as to whether this was a good move.</p>
<p>Lol seems like everyone got the same poem....DiveAlive the NYC story wasn't too complicated...i guess it depends on the person.</p>
<p>It was pretty much about how NYC is like a living person that congests so much crap but is not dead yet....to put it in a nutshell. All the questions were easy under that but 1...but I'm pretty sure I got it. The telescope story was funny as hell tho.</p>
<p>did you get the one about how glass is not a solid? that was so interesting that I went home and looked it up, but it seems as if there is a discrepancy between all of the websites. must ask someone.</p>
<p>Ya...no story stumped me. But the verbal ate me up so it will probably even out. The article was pretty much just saying New York should have killed itself by now and then it juxtaposed it's busy and fast pace life with a human beings body.</p>
<p>The hardest question for me was when it asked which one is not comparing it to a human body. And that one took about 40 seconds. But like I said...verbal is definitely going to over shadow however I do in reading.</p>
<p>yeah! that was the only question I had trouble with. I put that "New York shouldn't work" or something. That's not what juxtaposed means. Perhaps it would be some form of personification? Juxtapose was one of those vocab words that I studied, that DIDN'T come up on the test.</p>
<p>Lol ya same...ya well your princetion review book will tell you juxtapose means to by placed side by side..but I think it can be used in the context I used it in also. Or atleast I've heard it used in that context...didn't sound unnatural to me as I was writing, but ya personification is the literary device it was using I guess...now that I think about it.</p>
<p>Ya not 1 of my 100 words studied showed up! and the roots barely helped...I was trying to raise my verbal from my last ssat lol. But ya the answer was the one that had New York City in it. Took me awhile, but I realized it was the only answer that referred to New York as a city and the comparison wasn't specifically to a human body.</p>
<p>I guess you could say that was the hardest story...but I really felt confident with how my SSAT was going after reading. After verbal I wanted to cry...(and I'm a guy) lol j.k. But ya I was pretty ****ed.</p>
<p>Oh. I've always thought of juxtapose like marble floors. Something placed side by side to show the contrast between the two. Perhaps you are correct too. :D </p>
<p>I know!!! It was like so annoying! I hated the verbal too. Not a single vocab word that I studied showed up. At least I improved my vocab and I now know how to call someone annoying/boring in 10 different ways. I think the math was my best subject, but verbal is just ugh!! But remembering that you can get 55/60 and still get a 800 is soothing. I guess a lot of people miss questions on the verbal. </p>
<p>O the test I erased something, and it left a mark. I asked my test admin what to do, and she said what can you do? I didn't find this very helpful. Is there a way to make sure that I am not marked down for eraser marks?</p>