<p>well, i thought it was easier than the november test.</p>
<p>really? Well,, I ran out time.....
AHH the last poem was HARD.</p>
<p>I was dreading it, but I actually think it was loads easier than SAT's critical reading :D! What was the last poem?</p>
<p>The last one was about the wheat and the weather (with the golden-haired girl simile at the end). This was my first time taking it, and it seemed fairly easy. The South African play and the Children & Adults in the darkness were actually fun to read and really easy to analyze. That one with the two aristocrats was torture to read though and, consequently, slightly harder to analyze.</p>
<p>im sort of confused on this...
so i answered a total of 55 out of 62 questions.
im being conservative and assuming i got 5 wrong.
now since i think there were 4 possibilities for each question each question wrong is 1/3 of a point of from the questions you get right.</p>
<p>so that would be 55-(1/3*5)=53</p>
<p>if i apply that raw score to the following that came from the PR sat II lit chart:
800 = raw score of 56 to 61
750-790 = raw score of 50 to 55
700-750 = raw score of 45 to 59
650-690 = raw score of 39 to 43
600-640 = raw score of 33 to 38
550-590 = raw score of 28 to 32
500-540 = raw score of 23 to 27
400-490 = raw score of 11 to 22
300-390 = raw score of -1 to 10</p>
<p>that puts me in the 750-790 range...
this can't be right!? i mean how can i ommit 7 and get 5 wrong and STILL be in that range?? i just don't get how this all works out..</p>
<p>any help?</p>
<p>oh yea, and i think the last poem was something about wheat..right? hahah, i just took the test a few hours ago and forgot it already...</p>
<p>I thought the last poem was ok, because what... 3 of the questions were basically trying to trick you into thinking the girls were workers in the field?</p>
<p>I hated the one with Charlotte and Arthur or whatever, I didn't know how we were supposed to interpret it. That one that asked what Charlotte's speech was intended to do had me thinking for so long. I finally settled on "set herself apart from Arthur's complaints" or whatever. The other ones were like "satirize his stupidity", I don't really remember but it bugged me haha.</p>
<p>I also really hated the astrology poem. I just could not get behind the whole I believe in astrology and people who don't are fools thing.</p>
<p>i HATED the one that had the cold front metaphor or whatever...</p>
<p>yeah the wheat poem was actually easy. unless i interpreted it wrong and then golden haired girls were ACTUALLY girls, and not wheat</p>
<p>Charlotte and Arthur, i omitted two questions because i didn't understand it at all. and i think out of frustration i guessed satirize his stupidity because she was making fun of him</p>
<p>i skimmed the play really fast because i ran out of time. (does anyone know why they posted it twice...? so we wouldn't have to flip to the previous page, i guess?) that still doesn't make sense to me</p>
<p>overall, i thought it was difficult. Omitted three and probably got 15-20 wrong. hoping for 700?</p>
<p>^^^omit three and 15-20 wrong comes out to around 700??
is the test curve really that forgiving?</p>
<p>A few questions/verifications:</p>
<p>in the first passage, the "first" was referring him afraid of being caught</p>
<p>Charlotte's comments to Arthur was to satirize him
They were recent aquaintances
The narrator thought Arthur was amusing (mocking kinda)
The general conversation was to reveal character (or battle of wits)?</p>
<p>For the Wheat one, the invisible force was the wind?
And the second stanza describes the wheat bundled lying in the fields or being harvested and sold?</p>
<p>Oh the boy cried ROMANCE LETS DANCE (or something?) to bring out a hedonistic attitude
The phone call broke the dramatic illusion or seomthing?</p>
<p>is the curve really -6 raw points and still 800?... i thought it was like -2 =P But if it is -6 that's awesoeme!</p>
<p>the curve is generous..but not THAT generous at the same time. you can't miss 20 and get a 700,absolutely no way lol. you can miss 20 and get a 600. by the way, the whole "wheat blowing" poem i interpreted against what someone said a few posts back. About how there were actually girls in the field; I interpreted that as a metaphor, that the wheat was blonde like girls but NOT girls...anyone else confirm this or am i wrong lol?</p>
<p>lol im pretty sure the poem was about Wheat -_-; lol. The girls at the end were a metaphor for wheat. If you read the title and the asterick, the title was literally "Bundles of Wheat". Btw, there were 62 questions right... cuz one of the posters above posted 61 full raw points according to PR (wanna make sure i didnt bubble the same thing twice or something).</p>
<p>since we're all hard core dorks at heart, what was everyone's favorite passage?</p>
<p>i LOVED the play...i thought it was just beautiful. i also enjoyed the free form poem about the weather.</p>
<p>i enjoyed the play, but my favorite was the passage on children being kept in the dark...really liked it.</p>
<p>I really enjoyed the nature one and the woman's struggle in the relationship, partly because half the poetry I write (just for fun, of course) is written in that style; so it was also the easiest for me. The children in the dark one was very very good at capturing the innocence of children and how they are impacted by parents neglecting them, and the intuitive feelings they have. I really like that one as well. The play wasn't my favorite, though.</p>
<p>i thought the one about the dude robbing the kid i thought the "first" referred to him wanting to kill the kid.....then he goes onto to say justify it and directly before that part he talked about wanting to kill the kid....i dunno that test was pretty savage tho</p>
<p>I thought Dec was easier than Nov's... anyone else?</p>
<p>I liked the children-parent-darkness one the best. Insightful and pretty gloomy. For the first passage, what was the "thing" (start of the second paragraph) that he was made to forget?</p>