<p>^Cancel if you absolutely know that you scored lower (use the harshest curve). Math might be a bit higher if -3.</p>
<p>How does the writing average in with the essay? Does anyone have a chart?</p>
<p>Also, what would I need on my essay to get an 800 on writing while still having 1 MC wrong. </p>
<p>I scored a 10 on my January essay, but I had a more mature writing style and threw in some SAT vocabulary compared to today’s essay which was filled with good examples and reasoning, but less ornate.</p>
<p>There was nothing on math that an aficionado of mathematics hasn’t seen. C’mon guys, math was really, really easy. Do you want to know what math had ought to be like?</p>
<p>I. symbolic logic
II. mathematical proofs
III. a few difficult computational problems</p>
<p>@fln no… few students in high school learn proofs aside from very simple geometry ones, and fewer still deal w/ symbolic logic. The SAT measures aptitude, not how many years advanced you are in math or what your curriculum was like. That was just an unintelligent comment.</p>
<p>I’d say this math section was significantly harder than those of practice tests I had taken. Generally as easy (of course), but I think there was a higher density of level 5 difficulty ones. I expected math to be easiest, left thinking it was the hardest. Definitely not going to be the -1 = 770 curve we’ve seen recently. I’m considering canceling… but it’s my first test, so I probably won’t. I’m thinking I did well on the other sections.</p>
<p>@LiamNeeson</p>
<p>Looking at past curves, I would say that with -1 raw score, an 11 or 12 on the essay will almost guarantee an 800 on the essay. A 10 would put you on edge, depending on the difficulty of the writing section.</p>
<p>With -0, a 9 or above on the essay should put you in solid proximity of that 800.</p>
<p>With -2, there is chance that a 12 on the essay will get you an 800, but no guarantees.</p>
<p>For questions I am unsure of, I write a X in the bubbles that may be the answer. For one of the questions the X would not erase fully and I realized that it was the wrong answer. The answer I selected had the bubble completely filled in and darkened. Should I be worrying about possible errors?</p>
<p>By “did not erase fully,” are we talking about it erasing most of the way? Was the mark faint, or was it still fairly dense?</p>
<p>It’s a somewhat clear ( X ) compared to the fully shaded bubble next to it.</p>
<p>I didn’t have problems with bubbles that I had filled in the PSAT but had then erased, and they remained substantially dark (but as erased as they could be). I obviously can’t speak for the SAT, but as long as you attempted to erase it as much as you can, even if it is somewhat clear, their machines shouldn’t pick it up (unless it is as dark or close to as dark as the pencil marks in the filled-in bubble).</p>
<p>Thanks for your input. I’m just worried because I’m really banking on 800 reading… sigh.</p>
<p>Well, good luck. We can only hope, wait, and eventually see…</p>
<p>The machines read answers based on shinning a light upon your darkened bubble. If the circle was light enough that it would not reflect the light then you should be fine. But be warned, if the machine reads that you put two answers down it will mark you down with the penalty.</p>
<p>Compared to Jan:</p>
<p>Math: about the same, with the exception of like 4-5 problems that I honestly never really encountered in any form on practice tests; erikthered (and I as well) predict a semi-generous curve (i.e. -1 780).</p>
<p>Critical Reading: don’t remember too much about Jan’s test, but this test was difficult, to say the least. I applaud all of you who feel good about it, but there were more than a few questions that can honestly be looked at from 90 different perspectives. I had -8 on the Jan CR: almost evenly split between sentence comps and passages. Memorizing nearly 500 words and taking endless practice tests, I think, puts me about 1, maybe 2 more raw points better than Jan CR.
-> Maybe it’s just me really upset, but this test deserves a -3/4 800, easily. </p>
<p>Writing: Kind of winged the Jan test (with GREAT results), but this one wasn’t so far off. The writing passage on the 25 min. was kind of annoying, and pretty sure I have -2 on the normal m/c, but, whatever. </p>
<p>I personally predict myself a ~2210: 700 CR, 740 M, 770 W (basically no gain from my Jan test).</p>
<p>bumped</p>
<p>I thought math had a couple doozies, but not too bad. Anyone know the solution to that last one with the triangle where one side and three angles are given? If I had been able to remember my sin a/angle a = sin b/angle b stuff I’m sure I would’ve got it, but I blanked and guessed some integer times a square root that had a value around 11 (I believe), the only other answer I thought possible was the simple “12”, but I didn’t choose that one. Anything I just said could be wrong as I don’t remember all this precisely, but I’m sure someone is familiar with this problem?</p>
<p>As for the Writing, I found it mostly a breeze, except one or two questions I was unsure of.</p>
<p>The critical reading was a b***, definitely on the higher end of the curve. After scoring 800 the CR section of a previously administered sat, I was disappointed to find this test had some very tricky/seemingly ambiguous questions and passages and a few hard vocab. I’m sure I scored above 700, but I wanted that 800 :P.</p>
<p>Does anyone remember that question about whether the chinese traditional dress (Toga or some that began with a “T”)was a sign of a loyal friend or cross-generational connection. There seemed to be text in the passage to support both, but I settled on cross-generational as the answer.</p>
<p>On the vocab did anyone get that problem about phobias, One answer had illuminate and the other I thought possible had paucity, which I didn’t know. I can’t remember which of the two I chose, now I think it might of been neither. It went something like this:</p>
<p>Phobias are generally not ______ by a single ____ but by a series of events, environmental factors, and attitudes.</p>
<p>Oh the answer might of been the sprouted(some word like it) and paucity?</p>
<p>@pnut
I suggest you read the entire 2012 March test discussion threads for math and critical reading. There are lists of correct answers that most people agreed upon.
As for the answers for your problems:
- Triangle one was 6 + 3sqrt2 or something. (E) Explanation in math thread.
- Cross-gen connection (loyalty was never indicated in the passage)
- Phobias question’s answer DID NOT have paucity in it. I forget, it’s somewhere in the CR thread though :0</p>
<p>Hope this helps and I’d love to have a generous CR curve! :)</p>
<p>The phobias question had “precipitated” as the answer for the first blank as far as I remember.</p>
<p>I cancelled because I though the test was too easy… I feel like the curve will be bad, and I usually make lots of silly mistakes even though I think I did well.</p>
<p>11 days left… the wait is killing me.</p>
<p>one week! :)</p>