<p>There is nothing subjective about CR. The answer will ALWAYS be explicitly stated in the passage. If the answer was subjective, then CB would have too many complaints about the test. The SAT was BUILT to be a objective evaluation of one’s skills, and therefore leaves no room for subjectivity.</p>
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<p>What exactly do you want it to measure then?</p>
<p>I am not deliberately contradicting myself in terms of interpretation. It just seems that nearly everyone here falls into two different camps - those who originally thought that I meant taking the authors words and distilling the reader’s own meaning, which, as others rightly argue, is not proper, and those who treat it more as something synonymous with analyze, like what Islander4 and Moxess allude to in their comments, which was the context in which I was using the word. </p>
<p>As for what the SAT measures or who it should benefit, standardized testing is made to give an equal opportunity for everyone to showcase what they know in the context of the material provided on the exam. It should - and again, does to the best possible extent - test a student’s inherent reasoning skills in the most fundamental academic areas. Thus, it should be independent of each student’s academic opportunities and give a student from Podunkville, Wyoming the same possibility of doing well as a student from an east coast college preparatory academy, the latter being the individual who would serve as “the better educated” due to the likelihood of the greater range of academic advantages in front of him or her. I am not saying that it shouldn’t reward hard work, but if the SAT showed a perfect correlation between academic grades and the amount of college preparatory work available for the student, then what would be the point of it? It’s designed as something separate in the application, as something that provides a mental snapshot of applied knowledge, not who is the better educated. The SAT provides students who have not been the most focused during the ninth or tenth grade years or for those students who can’t get their hands on college-level courses a redeeming opportunity to prove that they have the ability to compete academically in the given institution. It shows an admissions committee that this individual has the intellectual capacity to thrive as a student of said college.</p>
<p>Also I must apologize since this is a tangent from the original scope of the thread.</p>
<p>Arachnotron, I realize that the sum of a triangles angles is 180, I was stating a fact off of the top of my head to elucidate the broader scope of what I was attempting to say.</p>
<p>bump :)…</p>
<p>I think that CR is more impressive than Math, but that may only be because I am good at math (one wrong, and only cause I erased wrong, but I did get an 800 in Math2), and not so good at CR. So the fact that CR is harder for me makes it more impressive. But what I think is most impressive is getting an absolute perfect score in writing. Writing is already statistically the least 800-scored section out of all three. And even then, most of those people that do get 800 either get a high essay score and a multiple choice wrong, or all the mutiple choice right, and a lower essay. So getting a 12 on the essay and 80/80 raw score on writing is definitely most impressive (but that may only be because I did it :D)</p>
<p>I knew a guy from Vietnam who came to America and took the test. Didn’t speak a word of English. Got a 790 on the math and a 300 on the reading hahaha</p>
<p>Reading. Math is more easily taught and you get a definete answer in math</p>
<p>Reading ftw</p>
<p>I’m really strong in math and a little less so in reading. After the test I felt extremely confident on math and only pretty good on reading. I ended up with 800CR and 770M. I must have missed one…but as far as precieved difficulty, I’d say CR was harder and therefore more impressive, but everyone has different strengths, so someone else could just as easily say the opposite. It’s all based on the person’s strengths.</p>
<p>math is a compelte joke compared to reading, so defintely reading. i don’t get it, the SAT reading is late high school level while the SAT math is middle school level…???</p>
<p>SAT Math (and SAT Subject Test Math) is a complete joke. The only thing you should be worried about imho is not making trivial calculation mistakes (like I did, heh) and that should be easy to do. CR on the other hand is a lot more difficult (although you can miss 1-2 questions).</p>
<p>I didn’t get an 800 in any section though. :/</p>
<p>got an 800 in math with a little practice… idk how anyone could get an 800 in reading though lol i got a 550 :/</p>