March 2009 SAT discussion

<p>Did you guys think today's test was easy, medium, or hard? I failed on the essay--I didn't have time for a conclusion because I was stopped mid-sentence towards the end of my last body paragraph. I'm probably looking at an 8 at the highest.</p>

<p>I thought math and reading were okay, except the reading passage about the amateur Indian computer programmer-author was sort of difficult.</p>

<p>Also, my experimental section was reading. I suspect this was the very first reading section, because the vocabulary questions seemed distinctly more difficult than those from the other sections. Does anyone remember the answer to the question about the singer whose voice was so broad and sweet that it was __________? I put something with a -fluous suffix or something, but I can't remember the whole word.</p>

<p>I thought today’s math was harder than usual. I usually finish with the very least 5 minutes extra on each section. Maybe I was just nervous since this was my first real SAT. </p>

<p>Reading and Writing I thought were no different than practice tests I’ve taken, not too hard not too easy. Then again, I usually always think I did well, and end up with 600s.</p>

<p>The word you’re looking for is mellifluous </p>

<ol>
<li> sweetly or smoothly flowing; sweet-sounding: a mellifluous voice; mellifluous tones.</li>
<li> flowing with honey; sweetened with or as if with honey.</li>
</ol>

<p>Was the right choice btw</p>

<p>Thanks! I was typing in words on merriamwebster.com to see if I could find the word, and i came across umbelliferous or something like that, and I thought I found it, but it meant “relating to the carrot family” and I was like, crap, I got it wrong. But thanks for helping me. I think I got the question right before that one wrong, though. (The question about the boy without ______________ had no _______________ about leaving his friends.) Do you know that answer too?</p>

<p>Compared to the practice test I would agree that the Math sections were harder. I think the CR section was easier and the writing section was about the same. But what do I know? I would be exceptionally lucky top my last practice test score (2020) due to my struggles with sentence correction.</p>

<p>freakchild</p>

<p>my son said to tell you he thinks the answer was the boy had NO</p>

<p>COMPUNCTION</p>

<p>was that the one?</p>

<p>I think so–compunction means twinge of guilt. I got it wrong =(</p>

<p>I felt that it was harder than the blue book practice test… I got ranges of 2140-2370 on my last two practices.
Essay - I finished with two minutes to spare, two developed body paragraphs, but was a little repetitive in content…
Math - questions were more time consuming than hard… made me second guess myself many times
W - I usually do awful… and I think this was even worse
CR - I usually feel I do awful, but when I grade myself, I only miss a few questions, but this was awful :frowning:
Vocab was okay… When I was between two answers, always chose the right one ^^ Passages … not so much. There was only one passage I deemed easy (I think one about an African American woman… can’t recall though)</p>

<p>I dunno what… but midway about the exam I was pretty confident, after section 5/6 started feeling like crap :/</p>

<p>THis one was harder than the january one. I barely finished on time, and I didnt have enough for some. Well, I guess it doesn’t matter because of the curve.</p>

<p>What do you mean by the curve? I keep hear people taking about it. Isn’t the score as the scoring charts show?..like in the practice tests?</p>

<p>What ab. the SAT’s “experimental” q’s that don’t end up being marked cuz the C.B. wants to test them out? How do they get scored? Don’t understand, can someone explain?</p>

<p>How do u feel u did on math…let’s get specific on Math probs. Anyone?</p>

<p>Stockmom: the official sat is on a curve. If for one test, everyone does worse, they dont take off as many points for each problem. So, technically, I guess if everyone gets more wrong because the test is harder, you would get the same score is you did well with everyone else…</p>

<p>pjlover:
The experiemental section is completely tossed out. I think for this test it was reading or writing…ionno.</p>

<p>i had one or 2 hard math each section…left one blank- number 9 section 2…something about 5 to the “Ab”</p>

<p>Did anyone get that one problem with two conjoined triangles and the area is 3:4 and the distance between line between A and the line L is 10, what is the distance between B and L?
(it was a grid in)</p>

<p>haha i forgot everthing else.</p>

<p>oh yeah i got 13.3 for that one</p>

<p>i went with 13.3…10 divided by 3. that number times 4…just a guess</p>

<p>howd you solve it?</p>

<p>o and does anyone know if its bad if you use all historical examples…like different events but all historical for the essay?</p>

<p>does anyone remember that sentence fill-in with the writer and whatnot? </p>

<p>It involved something with Ernest Hemingway and how he used short terse sentences</p>

<p>There was a problem which was i think find some thing about (n(n-3))/2, i got 65, was it right.
Ohh i though the Math was alot easier
the reading ok
the writting ok</p>