<p>OK. Everyone is asking which section was the experimental section. I have heard more guesses than there were sections on the test. It really shouldn't be hard to figure out. I'll list the ones I know to be part of the real test and somebody can take it from there.</p>
<p>Essay
Student Response
Theater passage
Old Lady Passage
Telephone Company Question
Cloning</p>
<p>By the way, some great examples for the essay are the rise of fascism in Europe and Ayn Rand's novel Anthem.</p>
<p>I wanted to know this too. I've written practice 6s at classes before (they grade really hard...like top 2 out of 100 kids got what i got) & my essay today was good but i ran out of time so my 3rd example was weak & my conclusion was 1 sent. any chance?</p>
<p>We've done this already.. many times. Read through the first few pages of the SAT post.</p>
<p>Instead of being recalcitrant, why don't you just write what were the experimental sections</p>
<p>I believe roughly 3 to 5% receive 5.5s or 6s.</p>
<p>If you really wanted a six, some great examples for the essay were the rise of fascism in Europe and Ayn Rand's novel Anthem.</p>
<p>haha mine was creativity...i dont think they wanted fascism for creativity.</p>
<p>i wrote about military technology/tactics, business & competition, & family struggles w/ increasing divorce rate</p>
<p>i had creativity too and i wrote about art, medicine, political conflicts and entertainment...but mine wasn't like as structured as i usual write...i think we got the short end of the stick with that prompt..hopefully they grade easier</p>
<p>For those of you who were annoyed by sniffling noses, etc, imagine what happened to me on the Jan 22 SATs: the power went out. We took the first two sections of the test in the dark. I got one incorrect answer on the first section, which robbed me of the score I wanted. Hmmm...maybe it was the environment that was to blame, not my carelessness...</p>
<p>"Ok, I have a question from the old woman passage, and it seems everyone has had no difficulty with whatsoever. It was one of the first questions, why does she say she "never expected" to live in such a beautiful place? I put that she had a need for such beauty, or something like that. Why is everyone saying she was unprepared to live there?"</p>
<p>Could someone answer this? This has been asked for a while and never answered. I'm wondering myself.</p>
<p>I thought it was "She was unprepared to live there."</p>
<p>From the passage, I thought that she didn't like her new life and missed the shop and living with her friends. After she moved to the new home, everyone started to distance themselves away from her. Anyone agree disagree with me on this analysis?</p>
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If you really wanted a six, some great examples for the essay were the rise of fascism in Europe and Ayn Rand's novel Anthem.
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meh, wrote about Anthem. do you think a lot of people wrote about that? would that undermine the originality of my essay?</p>
<p>and do you guys think that detail/development is important in the SAT essay?</p>
<p>i wrote about ayn rand's the fountainhead, ralph waldo emerson's "self reliance", and the rise of totalitarian governments</p>
<p>From looking at the online essay explanations on Collegeboard.com, they seemed to place an emphasis on detail...</p>
<p>I the passage it mentions how the old lady's daughter was sucessful and gradually took over responsibility of the household, so I would imagnine that the old lady would of seen a move into a richer neighborhood coming, and I don't think she was totally unprepared for it.</p>
<p>For the one with the old lady moving into a richer neighborhood and the quote "I wasn't expecting..." she wasn't prepared was the only answer that made some sort of sense...what were the other options again?...</p>
<p>perplexed meant entangled or troubled???</p>
<p>I approved majority rule:</p>
<p>My thesis:</p>
<p>Majority rule is appropriate in the area of government in the U.S. The governement in the U.S is a democratic-republic where the majority elects officials to make the decisions on how to run the country.</p>
<p>Wrote about checks and balances a bit for the 2nd paragraph</p>
<p>3rd - Congress => Made up of the Senate and the House, from both, officials are elected and those officials draft new laws and the majority rule votes new laws to be passed. These laws are then sent to the President. The president has the option to veto any laws passed by the majority in Congress, keeping congress in check.</p>
<p>4th Paragraph - The president may veto any law passed by Congress (majority vote). Also, the general public's vote suggests how popular the president is, but this is not how the presidency is selected. The public votes electoral college officials in (majority rule) whom then elect the new president. The judiciary branch keeps the president in check as the Supreme Justices (elected by majority rule) may rule any laws ratified by the President and Congress, unconstitutional. </p>
<p>Therefore, majority rule is great based upon the system of checks and balances (or something like that)</p>
<p>Yep, that's basically my essay. A little better maybe, a little worse perhaps. I actually marked by my paragraphs that the 4th paragraph was actually the third, and vice versa. You are indeed allowed to include essay changes through symbolic editing letters (legitamately, so they can't take off for them).</p>
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From another thread, I advised anyone who happened to be reading that they should sync their wristwatch with the classroom clock ahead of time. That's because I thought I had five minutes (it said end 9:00 on the board!) when I really had none on the essay.</p>
<p>I was halfway through my last sentence. I like to make (or try to make) a dramatic ending, because it's graded holistically, based on overall opinion, and a nice ending rounds it off. So my essay (with a few scribbles in the last line, as I tried to cross it off but my attempt didn't go so well) ended "Yes, majority opinion is here to stay. But on no occa........."</p>
<p>It was supposed to say "But on no occassion has it shown itself to be an effective guideline."</p>
<p>But then the beeper thing rang, and that was that.</p>
<p>Now, assuming that the rest of my essay was splendid, magnificent, and all that (one can HOPE, right?), how badly will the missing half-sentence affect my essay?</p>
<p><em>readies self to curl into fetal position</em>
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<p>O_o</p>
<p>I have no idea how that post got in here. I swore I posted that in a new thread. In fact, it IS in a new thread. <em>wonders what it's doing here</em> </p>
<p>Or maybe they were merged.</p>
<p>I put troubled...<em>wonders</em></p>