****JANUARY 2015 SAT THREAD (INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS).****

For the writing passage question, i chose Fortunately. Some of the choices i remember from CR are:

Sentence completion:
life after Supreme Court -> quiescent…exacting
overwrought

Bat passage:
subtitle of the book or something -> transcending human sense
birds from paradise -> color of feather
reaction of the scientists -> incensed
distinguished critics -> birds using magnetic field
the last question -> humans effortlessly see things

Chinese girl passage:
some word i do not recall -> tinge
different techniques -> studied to spontaneous
embroidery -> urge to create before drawing
relationship between the girl and the husband -> teacher and student
girl hiding her drawing from the husband -> because he may know that the girl did not practice calligraphy?
how does the passage describes the girl -> talented but not confident?
how will the girl react to the compliment -> surprised then happy

College athletes being paid passage:
show -> spectacle

@MarcoReus yeah 81 is correct. Oh, what was the answer to the question that asked for the units (ones) digit of 7 raised to the power 1600??

7 = 7^1
49 7^2
343 = 7^3
2401 = 4
…7 = 5
…9 = 6
…3 = 7
…1 = 8

Recognize the pattern? (4-8)

The last integer was 1.

@Vedant12‌ I got the answer to the units digit of 7 raised to 1600 as 1. I did it using modular arithmetic and apparently the same question was on some SAT in 2010.

@ny1002ny‌ Isn’t the girl supposed to be skeptical and something?

Aw crap I think I got that one wrong then I guess, haha

^cuz she truly thinks she sucks and that her husband would be mad

Bat passage, I don’t think it was “human effortlessly see things”. It was about animal sight right?

@asiankid88 for which question?
and for the 7^1600, i chose 1.

@MarcoReus‌ LOL. i put it into my calculator thinking “piece of cake” then my calculator said “overflow”… haha well played CB, well played.

@MarcoReus It was “human effortlessly see things”.

@ny1002ny‌ the chinese girl passage how she felt after she heard her husband. and for the word you don’t remember, was it cast?

Everyone was going to that. 7^1600 never is going to work. Even if it does, you can’t see the last integer as the calculator would use index notation.

This was the perfect question. Had a small trick to it so you know it deserves to be on #20, but turned out so easy. :smiley:

Yup effortlessly see things

oh i thought at the end of the passage, the husband complimented and then the girl did not believe at first. Then the husband restated that she is really talented… So wouldnt she be surprised at first and then feel happy

@asiankid88 the units digit of 7^1600 was an pretty easy question considering whether you know modular arithmetic or not. If not then you could have done that question using simple logic.

@asiankid88 yes it was cast

Wasn’t it about how animals can direct themselves without effort? Or am I talking about a different MCQ here and confusing it as the last.

@homersimpson123 haha yeah, i eventually got that answer too

@Vedant12‌ what’s your two cents on that question? "what the chinese girl would feel after her husband complimented her