May 7, 2005 NEW SAT - OFFICIAL THREAD

Test Preparation
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<p>Alright to prevent a crazy discussion...let's set the guidelines.</p>

<p>If you are going to comment, write MATH, READING, WRITING. Before each comment.</p>

<p>Also first try to figure out how many forms were out there and who had what kind of experimental section. Do not ask questions about the questions on the test. THis is strictly an answer compilation thread (meaning only if you were positive about the answer, then post). Thank you in advance.</p>

<p>To start I had the VERBAL experimental.</p>

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<p>WRITING-
i thought the writing section was a lot easier than the writing sections on the practice tests i did (i took a PR classroom prep course). i also thought the essay was easy- at first I had no clue what to writie about, but it came together well</p>

<p>READING-
i like the spelling of "Artoo Detoo" (star wars) on one of the short reading passages. overall, i thought the reading was about what I had expected. the experimental section HAD to have been a critical reading, i had four reading sections on my test.</p>

<p>MATH-
this is what killed me. on the 16 question section, i left 5 blank. it was a lot harder than i was expecting</p>

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<p>I had the same exact test as you (Artoo Detoo is familiar :P)</p>

<p>Writing - Pretty good, I had a good idea of what to write about and used 3 examples (historical, literary, personal) </p>

<p>Reading - alright, lots of passages, and 4 sections. Pretty clear that one of them is an experimenal, but I'm not sure which one. Maybe the one about Africa? </p>

<p>Math - alright. A few challenging questions, apart from which it was doable. The last math section was the hardest by far.</p>

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<p>There's multiple tests so don't go yelling out that a section was experimental just because you didn't have it.</p>

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<p>I found the math to be quite easy actually. Just a matter of plugging in numbers and knowing the concepts. I had trouble with critical reading, but that is not unusual for me. I talked to others and they said it wasn't too bad. Writing was surprisingly easy as well</p>

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<p>I had a MATH experimental, and I didn't have an 'Artoo Detoo' passage, so I am betting that was the READING experimental.</p>

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<p>Math was much easier than I expected.</p>

<p>Two sections of writing were very easy, but the third was difficult. I'm hoping that it was my experimental.</p>

<p>Critical Reading was the usual...pretty easy, though.</p>

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<p>but I wanted a star wars related passage! hahahahaha. I got some b.s. passage on a man's search for the history of the blues in africa</p>

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<p>MATH
The most annoying question for me was the one with Juan in line. The number of people in front of him was x, the number behind was x+9. I don't remember what other information was given, but I know I forgot to count Juan as a person in the line.</p>

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<p>Just one question on the math section. was the answer to the last fill in 27?</p>

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<p>oxi, i think i got 15 for that question</p>

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<p>madskier, that is the question I'm talking about. I put 27, but now I think it's wrong.</p>

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<p>hmm I got 9 and 18</p>

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<p>My math section was extremely easy-- and I am horrible at math. Honestly, one of the first grid questions was: "if you have a pie and split it into thirds, and then split each piece into fourths, how many pieces do you have?"</p>

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<p>I didn't have that one...o well</p>

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<p>oxi, i got 27 too. so did my friends.</p>

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<p>for math what did you get for the ratio question where it was something like M : B : C, and they gave you M and you have to say what B:C is.</p>

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<p>yea that was oxi's question</p>

<p>for grid ins i got(not in order) 4, 14, 5/4, 27, 3/5(i think) .008(anything less than sqrt 1/64) 1020 for one of them</p>

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<p>how do you know what section was experimental?</p>

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<p>lbtg - i got the same exact answers, i put .08 tho</p>