January 2011 SAT Experimentals

<p>@confucian… it was number 4 (number 3 had the grid-ins)</p>

<p>@sMITten </p>

<p>do you remember any problem(s) from that section?</p>

<p>and i had section 2 as math grid ins…</p>

<p>I had an extra CR… it was a double paragraph about the date of birth of the baseball guy and then a long one [I think that was the one] not sure tho :/</p>

<p>1/(1+n)(n) <---- I had that problem. That section was NOT experimental.</p>

<p>In CR I remember:
Baseball guy’s birth
Chlorophyll and leaves changing colors
Writing letters for grandmother
Thinking about family’s old house
Thinking about literary critics/some writer as an adolescent (I remember “phalanx of writers” or something)</p>

<p>(has CR experimental)</p>

<p>I think that literary adolescent was the experimental section?</p>

<p>I had the CR experimental also. Is it common to have a 25 question critical reading sections because that section might have been the one.</p>

<p>so was the math section with the knitting experimental?</p>

<p>@OtherWindow: Presumably; I also had a CR experimental, and the only one of those I didn’t have was the one you pointed out. I also had something about crickets, dunno if you had that.</p>

<p>@Idnehzagup: You probably had a different version of the test then, I definitely did not have anything about crickets.</p>

<p>Only different experimentals, I think. From what I’ve heard, seems like there’s more than three.</p>

<p>I know I had a math experimental, I hope it was the one with the knitting problem. Anyone know if it was? Also how do you solve that problem if anyone remembers, I omitted it since the wording confused me. It has something like b and an inequality.</p>

<p>And another dumb thing on this test was ‘units digit’ I never heard it referred to as the units digit.</p>

<p>@Idnehzagup
Lol, I may have not read the second part of your post. Which thing did you not have?</p>

<p>I had a writing experimental. If it helps, these are the passages in the CR sections that I had:
1st section: Baseball player’s birthdate (two passages)
2nd section: Writing letters for grandma
3rd section: Descartes and pain (20 min)</p>

<p>I can’t remember the math as well since there were so many problems
For grid-ins, I had one about three different types of cake, remainder of certain numbers when divided by ten, something with exponents, etc
I can’t remember which questions were on the all MC 25min section.
However, I never had a knitting question, so that was your experimental.</p>

<p>■■■… if the knitting thing was really experimental im screwed :(</p>

<p>anyone else have a critical reading passage about CUISINE/ FOOD</p>

<p>I had a reading passage about a guy who enjoys getting lost. I wish it counted…it was so easy.</p>

<p>Oh! Was the one about the guy getting lost experimental? I was so happy, that section was ridiculously easy… did you have a vocab one like “although the castle was built to _____ him, it only ______ his reputation because people associated it with his (some bad quality here haha)” ?</p>

<p>one of the reading experimentals :
the one with the Korean girl who can’t read hangul…</p>

<p>i was hoping that it wasn’t an experimental, but apparently, no one got that one…:(</p>

<p>so the one with the 1/(1+n)(n) was not experimental? Which was was? I can’t seem to find it anywhere.
Anyway with a different subject experimental see that problem?
And what was the answer anyway?
“sum of first 50 integers, starting from 1/2 to 1/(1+n)(n)… so forth?”</p>

<p>^
That’s the classic telescoping series. The answer is 50/51</p>