May SAT II Literature Discussion

<p>I vaguely… remember putting indiscriminant. I can barely remember the test actually lol.</p>

<p>yup, indiscriminate.</p>

<p>i put indiscriminate + not understood.</p>

<p>But I looked the poem up online and i am having MAJOR doubts about the ‘not understood’ and regret choosing it bc it seems alot more like ‘revealed’</p>

<p>but oh well. what’s done is done. </p>

<p>i’m surprised that theres such a common consensus here on the answers. The lit test is notoriously known as being one of the harder ones, but I feel like I scored in the higher 700 (or an 800 if lucky) on this test.</p>

<p>can anybody list the passages and poems in order?</p>

<p>I know there was the woman stealing the gold necklace one.
There was also the rain passage.
There was the piano playing passage.
There was the guy and his instruments one
The wheat passage was last.</p>

<p>^ There was also “The Salutation”. What was this about?</p>

<p>The Salutation
BY THOMAS TRAHERNE
These little limbs,
These eyes and hands which here I find,
These rosy cheeks wherewith my life begins,
Where have ye been? behind
What curtain were ye from me hid so long?
Where was, in what abyss, my speaking tongue?</p>

<pre><code> When silent I
So many thousand, thousand years
</code></pre>

<p>Beneath the dust did in a chaos lie,
How could I smiles or tears,
Or lips or hands or eyes or ears perceive?
Welcome ye treasures which I now receive.</p>

<pre><code> I that so long
Was nothing from eternity,
</code></pre>

<p>Did little think such joys as ear or tongue
To celebrate or see:
Such sounds to hear, such hands to feel, such feet,
Beneath the skies on such a ground to meet.</p>

<pre><code> New burnished joys,
Which yellow gold and pearls excel!
</code></pre>

<p>Such sacred treasures are the limbs in boys,
In which a soul doth dwell;
Their organiz</p>

<p>Do you guys know when scores come out?!?!?! I forgot!</p>

<p>i got a 700 -_-</p>

<p>790! Yahoo.</p>

<p>740!!! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!! I’m so happy. Lit was hard for me, so I was going to be happy with anything above 700.</p>

<p>That was a disaster. I do well in literature classes, and yet, I did not score well on this. How do I fix this?</p>

<p>740! YES!</p>

<p>And @heathers, me too. This was my worst grade on all my subject tests, but I’m so happy with it, considering how hard the test was and how hard the curve usually is.</p>

<p>I got a 780. Very different from my practice tests where I got a 720 and 640, respectively…</p>

<p>I’m taking this test in a week, and I was just wondering whether your scores matched those you received on your practice tests. Which book/tests did you use?</p>

<p>@littlepenguin I used both Kaplan and Barron’s. I would not suggest using Barron’s-I usually got scores that were 50-60 points off of what I actually got and did not cover the material actually on the test. Kaplan’s tests, on the other hand, were much more accurate to the test itself, and I scored about 10-ish points lower than on the actual test. However, I have a tendency to perform much better on the actual test than on practice tests for SAT II’s, so I would say that Kaplan is a pretty accurate indicator of your score.</p>