May sat 2011

<p>What abt the primary purmose in night and day? expose the past and present hours,critique the night laboring pattern or what?</p>

<p>@sweetpuri : and it says viewed thru the square base. so it should be a lil square inside a big square in the same position right?</p>

<p>just an update for CR section</p>

<p>LIST:</p>

<p>Vocabulary (14)</p>

<ul>
<li>Vocalization</li>
<li>Corrupt minister: Castigated/Misconduct</li>
<li>Sentimentality: Mawkishness</li>
<li>Boy, youthful energy etc: Obstreperous</li>
<li>Synthesize/Divergent</li>
<li>Imperturbable/Ruffled</li>
<li>Austerity/Curtail </li>
<li>Meditation</li>
<li>Infectious</li>
<li>Succinct</li>
<li>Small/Functional</li>
<li>Empathy</li>
<li>Firm, Outspokenness</li>
<li>Procrastinor</li>
</ul>

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<p>Minipassages</p>

<p>Jazz Passage (2)

  • learning Jazz is a demanding activity
  • personal creativity</p>

<p>Video Games passages (3)

  • Video games can transform players
  • 1st passage analyzed a topic and 2nd passage said it was harmful( or Passage 2shows some validity of passage 1?)</p>

<h2>- “Form” means type</h2>

<p>Ocean Passage (2)

  • Sentence was for transition
  • Investigating a crime scene</p>

<h2>Anyone got the one with scientific theory and discover of herb abt 1000 years ago?</h2>

<p>Big passages</p>

<p>Whales Passage (9)

  • Purpose: describe a scientist’s account on how he started doing whale research or sth like that
  • Using similes and metaphors in writing
  • Bursts and smokes meant scientists put in much effort already
  • Mentioned all EXCEPT motivation to study whales
  • Speed/pace of activity
  • Appreciation of limitations
  • Offer a likely train of thought
  • What a whale might be doing may not seem like anything at first (something of that nature)…
    -Behavioral pattern shows intelligence clue (It’s abt why people watch those animals play)</p>

<p>Time/space Passage (7)

  • the general idea question: Compare time and space or something like that ( the choices are showing the vibrant night life/expose the past and present human night life/critique the night laboring patterns)</p>

<ul>
<li>Blur between day and night</li>
<li>Evening schools </li>
<li>Imagery described contrast between day and night</li>
<li>Have the reader view human history visually (it was the look, watch,hover question)</li>
<li>“both” refers to Available space and usable time </li>
<li>Rhythm - biological pattern</li>
</ul>

<p>Black Concert (12)

  • Bears: proceeds
  • exuberant celebration for the high schooler
  • Cherry blossoms: wild
  • Crowd of people: unrelenting force
  • Great migration: belonging
  • Waiting for lifetimes: generations
  • Impressionistic view of city
  • The panorama of the city: idealized
  • Crowd changing: color
  • Endless ground : inclusiveness of society
  • Reference to baby kicking: Novelty of a development
  • Lifting barriers</p>

<p>Cave Paintings Passage (10)

  • Credibility
  • Aesthetic power
  • Beauty is eternal: reverent
  • Playfully careless
  • Sympathetic
  • General agreement
  • Evocative and moving
  • emphasize paradox
  • Gifted artists of the Paleolithic period < ANY DEBATES???> ( i chose artisitic technique coz i have no idea of other chocies)
    -STILL WAITING TO CONFIRM THE “early attempts” question</p>

<p>@kikocupcake </p>

<p>wait, are these answers for the CR definitely right? </p>

<p>BTW, I picked artistic technique as well because none of the others really made sense to me either.</p>

<p>uhh those answers are which majority of people chose…i cannot say that they all are true…</p>

<p>ahhh, okay. thanks! it’s a great help anyways! I did choose some that were different from those as well though…</p>

<p>wow. I am so nervous about getting my score back. I thought the CR sections this time were difficult! But hopefully I will get 700+ and not have to take it again.</p>

<p>Can someone tell me what the essay prompt(s) were? I didn’t take the May SAT, so I’m curious as to what it was compared to the March one.</p>

<p>Thanks ^____^</p>

<p>it was smething like, can success be achievebale by yourself or do you need someone to help. Something like that.</p>

<p>@ritzyeh : omg so jealous! haha 620 will be good enuf for me. haha i need good scores in maths and writing =/ i m making a list of maths answers but still,i can rmb for like 20 questions only =/</p>

<p>@kikocupcake 700+ is still a dream for me. I kind of feel that the SAT isn’t a true test of knowledge. I mean, when in life are you ever going to need to know the patterns between the sum of prime numbers and the product of prime numbers? I mean topics such as algebra and differential calculus or stuff like vectors can help with architecture and engineering and I feel as if the SAT has gone astray and has decided to test us on things that we don’t really need to know…</p>

<p>Or maybe that’s just me. I go to a british school and we don’t really learn and do tests in the same way as americans do. I think most of our students find it difficult to switch between the two styles and we kind of suck more at doing the SAT. Are there any other brits out there that agree?</p>

<p>^ I’m a romanian, and I agree. Here, we get fed calculus and complicated equasions. I always have trouble with simple questions because i think it van’t be that simple and i lose time by coming up with a lot of equasions to solve Them. So it’s safe to say the math section has, and will always, kick my ass.</p>

<p>quite a few mistakes in this</p>

<p>yeah i got a^2/3 ( i didnt know whta the hell i was doing). please tell me is correct</p>

<p>no man, you should have read a little more closely. the first line the dude says - A theory of art… hasnt been found. the scientists that gutherie was talking about were in the search of this theory too so im pretty sure that they wouldnt be delighted - its surely sympathetic. good one though - you can still get above 700 +</p>

<p>i think youll get 2150 - if you got a 11 or 12 on the essay then it would boost your writing score - GOOD LUCK BRUH</p>

<p>@fireinyourhole, sorry dude, it was a^3/2 :/</p>

<p>Man, I failed the Volume-Area question. I used the V=l<em>h</em>w formula even tho it was a cube, and it was equal to V=Area of cube <em>h… so I said, hey, in the blue book, it says that it’s directly proportional if Y=x</em>k. So I said that y=V, x=A and k=h. And naaaaaturally, I cam to the conclusion that V is directly proportional to A, not whatever else answer choices there were :|</p>

<p>alisyn!! I came to the same conclusion!!! :frowning: we must have incorrectly set an equation when we should have noticed it is a proportion!! :(</p>

<p>Orrrr, maybe we were the ones who were right! Man, that would be awesome. Cause I didn’t do very well on the math sections, so every point in my favor counts haha</p>

<p>I also failed the 5.5 miles thing with Michael. I said that 5.5 *5 = 30.5 and so for him to have a 6.0 average, he should run another 5.5 which would make it a 36.0 which is divisible by 6… failzor. Everyone else here got 8.5 :expressionless: I haaaaate careless mistakes</p>

<p>yes, man… we are definitely right!
I also messed up on a few other questions!! :cry: I’m hoping the writing and reading sections will boost my overall score!</p>

<p>I don’t think I wrote a good essay. It’s like my brain froze or something. I’m usually a good writer, but 25 minutes?? That’s insane. I didn’t even write anything in the booklet, like organize ideas or something. I just started writing in the answer sheet and I barely finished on time, and I had about 1 and 1/2 pages, with 2 examples (i used Rosa Parks and James Gatsby. I tried real hard to make them on topic.)</p>