<p>The curve is predetermined. It doesn't matter who takes the test or how well they do. So far I'm looking at -2 or -3 in math at least. Damn it.</p>
<p>SATs tend to be more difficult than PSATs</p>
<p>hey guys -- for essays examples i used eli whitney's cotton gin and interchangeable parts..his NEW IDEAS led to progress..the world was forever changes...int. parts led to ford;s mass production ; etc..how bout yall</p>
<p>Huh? What was your essay topic?</p>
<p>how/when will we know which section was experimental?</p>
<p>i can't seem to find on this thread as to which grid-in was the experimental.. was it the section 3 or the second grid-in?</p>
<p>we determined section 3 was most likely experimental</p>
<p>i got a 2230 in march. for my essay i made up a personal experience, misquoted a proverb, and talked about atlas shrugged.</p>
<p>it would be much better to have section 3 as experimental for me.. i left last two grid-in completely blank, and wasn't sure about the ones that i answered..!</p>
<p>what were the questions on section 3?..refresh my memory.</p>
<p>bumping up my question again</p>
<p>I'll bring this up again. There was a MC that had sort of a sinusoid looking function and said said when f(x)=0 for how many values are possible or something. I put 1 rushing through, but it may have been 4. What do others think?</p>
<p>Did anyone even have this question?</p>
<p>Depends if you had a section of grid in or mult choice, if it was mult choice the last question was with the rope and knots (the one i had).</p>
<p>The curve is not pre-determined or effected by the ability level of the students taking the test. It varies only because of the variances in the raw difficulty of the items. The experimental section is used as an equating section. Since as you are taking the test you don't know which is experimental, you'll essentially score at your ability level. Give the experimental section to thousands of students, run some classical test theory stats on it, and you come up with a curve.</p>
<p>I believe the sinusoid question fell on the experimental, but the answer was definitely 4 -- number of times it crossed the x-axis/y=0.</p>
<p>There was one question about how many books authors have written. It was shown in a scatterplot and you had to find to the median number of books written. I got 5, but I'm not to sure about it.</p>
<p>I think there was a mistake in the graph b/c it had two dots for the number of authors who wrote 5 books. One dot saying 6 wrote 5 and another saying 5 did. I asked the procter and she said that it made sence but I didn't think so.</p>
<p>Also there was some other messed up question. It was an equilateral triangle and you had to find the length down the middle. It gave you two lengths of other sides on it (12 and 3). I had no idea but I think I came up with 27 as the length. Anyone else?</p>
<p>why does this thread have (over)3 times as many posts as the writing experimental</p>
<p>if the tests were evenly distributed there shouldnt be that many more people taking this test than the one with writing experimental... </p>
<p>are you guys posting more because the test was harder?</p>
<p>haha yeah form 2 was the coolest test</p>
<p>essay examples for the work question? anyone? anyone?</p>
<p>am i really here, doing this, on a saturday night?</p>
<p>for example I just compared life during school year to that in summer
thought I did ok</p>
<p>do u guys no if the MATH curve will be generous... I think i missed 4 points in all what would that be score wise???</p>