May 7th SAT Math IIC

<p>According to a Sparknotes MATH IIC "Just Tests!" book, you can miss 8 and skip 7 and still get a 700. We should all have a score well into the 700's. Thank God.</p>

<p>I think Sparknotes scale is a bit... generous?</p>

<p>Here was Collegeboard's scale for the previous Math IIC (1995)
Raw Score Scaled Score
50 800
49 800
48 800
47 800
46 800
45 800<br>
33 700</p>

<p>Yea the problem with the test is I don't think there's enough time. But I think I did pretty well. =) <em>hopefully</em></p>

<p>The one I didn't understand was near the end, and said "if blah blah blah divides blah blah blah, what violates this rule" or something of the sort. How did you do that?</p>

<p>Calculator Use</p>

<p>It's NOT necessary to use a calculator to solve every question on the Level 2, so it's important to know when and how to use one. For about 40 percent of the questions, there's no advantage, perhaps even a disadvantage, to using a calculator. For about 60 percent of the questions, a calculator may be useful or necessary.</p>

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<li>taken from <a href="http://www.collegeboard.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.collegeboard.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li>
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<p>WHAT A JUMBLE!
It's **NOT necessary* to use a calculator to solve every question on the Level 2,
followed by
For about 60 percent of the questions, a calculator may be useful or **necessary*.</p>

<p>WHICH IS IT?!</p>

<p>It is not necessary to use a calculator on EVERY question. A calculator is useful on 60%.
If you take out the useless stuff in between that's what you get. THat makes sense. So approx. 40% of the test does not require a calc, hence the whole "you don't need one on every question" argument.</p>

<p>but it says a calculator may be necesary for about 60%, so if its necessary for some of the 60%, its necessary for the test..</p>

<p>are we allowed to discuss the problems on the test?</p>

<p>It never said it wasn't neccessary for the test. It said it wasn't neccessary for <em>every</em> question, meaning some can be solved without it, but some need it.</p>

<p>What was the last question?</p>

<p>can we discuss the questions?</p>

<p>if so, for the last one, i got (arcsin(k-1))/2</p>

<p>im pretty sure that was right.</p>

<p>the arc length one is DEFINITELY 2m</p>

<p>Biomaster, I got the same thing for the last one and the arc...</p>

<p>I thoguth the test was pretty fair; not too hard, not too easy. What did you guys get for the problem which was about the three intersecting planes? I said that they would form a line or a point...</p>

<p>Was I the only one that ran out of time? :(</p>

<p>it was ok
yeah how do you do the last problem?</p>

<p>What was the last problem?</p>

<p>the arcsin problem with k</p>

<p>i had to guess</p>

<p>I don't remember the problem exactly, but if you don't remember trig identities you can always plug in numbers and check to see what works.</p>

<p>well does anyone know what they got for that problem?</p>

<p>I got what biomaster did</p>