What were the essay prompts like? Difficult?
If you take AP Lang/Ap Lit then it should be relatively easy. It’s basically the analysis essay that asks you to describe how author develops their argument. Also AP Lang/Lit gives you only 40 min per essay whereas the SAT gives 50.
Agreed. i guess though this curve will be a bit lower because these are concepts you should know by your junior year. Like algebra I and II, grammar and syntax and geometry and what not. its not like the Old SAT where you need to know a a bunch of vocab words that most teachers won’t ever teach their students.
@lessonwitch2 If I’m not mistaken, the average high schooler takes Algebra 2 their junior year. The new SAT math has much more algebra and even some basic trig. These questions will be a breeze for any advanced math person, but for the average math student this test would be considered harder.
@class0f2017 f2017
True, it doesn’t take into consideration those kinds of students. But Thats why I think it will be a bit lower, because most of the people taking this test are juniors, so you can assume that those more advanced will be the reason for that slight curve.
Today was the first administration of the new SAT, and since many people did not have a lot of time to prepare / study due to the lack of study materials (besides Kahn Academy), thus can doing very well, can I assume that the grading curve will be high?
No there was Definetly 20 total chairs, 5 new 15 old . I remember that problem vividly @futureucstudent
@ThatSpellingGuy111 no they got 7/15 for the country one, which fraction in the 1800’s. Also the question wasn’t poorly worded. It’ said what was the probability of it being an old chair, given it was in the sixth row
For the question about sin(x), with the triangle on the no call section, do you guys get 7/25?
The question was actually not poorly worded. If you do any conditional probability problems (which is what that was), that is exactly how it will be worded.
I don’t remember exactly how many D’s I got but I definitely remember getting a lot too @nakulshah58
@ThatSpellingGuy111 can’t we call into Collegeboard to dispute that math problem? I’m sure if enough people call in, they can omit that problem from the score. It was worded very ambiguously.
I thought the test wasn’t too bad. The reading was not bad, just I remember having trouble with some of the questions- I was just so happy it wasn’t like old English or something that I could never understand (F u fredirck Douglas on the PSAT). The writing was my weak point, but I think I did okay. (It’s adverse right?) And the math I’m basically positive I did well- unless I made a dumb mistake on the no Calc section. But I do agree with yall, that shit was tougher than alot of the other tests, but I think it was definitely doable. It make sense to make it harder cause the math does carry 50%. Shooting for 1550+ but idk could go anywhere from 1500 to 1600.
@asdfghjkl940 I think I picked the subduction one
I put the decimal version of 7/25 which is .28 is that okay
Idk I just remember subtracting 23.80 from like a 238.80 does anyone remember any specifics to the box problems?
I really truly believe that this test will have an awesome curve because it’s the first new one…I really really hope it’s like the PSAT curve
@asdfghjkl940 Now that you mention it, the word “capacious” sounds familiar from the passage. I hadn’t even thought about that until now
I highly doubt that CB is going to curve the tests favorably just as a marketing ploy. If they did, this would be bad for the company in the eyes of colleges. CB has already collected tons of data on these new tests from the experimental sections of the old tests, so they can already judge the difficulty level of the new tests and establish a curve based on that.
“Since the SAT is used as an objective admissions tool for colleges to evaluate applicants, it has to remain consistent between tests so that an SAT score from a test taken in May can be compared to one taken in October.”
@kenna2017 I agree, I highly doubt CB will do a huge curve this time just for money. Especially since this is the first time administering it, and everyone’s watching the results.