My Progress Thread - We Will Triumph

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<p><em>sigh</em> I got a 2200 on a practice test I just took. Going down :’( I was super tired and exhausted though (I got 4 level easy writing questions wrong!!) I must’ve been out of it or something :/</p>

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<p>Summer is almost over and I have yet to create any … memorable event at all >.< Still struggling with SAT. My classmates (just classmates, not friends) say that I am wasting my youth? What say you guys, who share the same vision as I do? :smiley: (refer to the last post in which I wrote a tiny speech)</p>

<p>Anyway, full practice test aheadddddd! :D</p>

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<p>^That happened to me too, i got like 4 in a ROW, with easy questions wrong one time. Also, I didn’t really know how to improve/reduce those errors for the next test. Could you like scan an image/ tell us what you’re going to do to fix those?</p>

<p>Also on your questions about the “Twice as many birds” I looked it up and Silverturtle and others said the answer was B due to parallelism(you said E?). Also for your corrections, where did you get the information that “than” is used only for comparing amounts? You must have gotten it from somewhere. I mean, if you knew that right away, how’d you get the question wrong, right? What I am asking, is when you correct your answers, do you use outside sources?</p>

<p>What’s your take on timing one’s self. The last full test i took a month ago was had the score=2010. I’m trying to improve by working 1 of the 3 sections individually. I’m reading an SAT math book to improve from 700, but I’m focusing on BB writing sections after i read the ULTIMATE GUIDE TO SAT GRAMMAR to get to 78-80 MC. But I keep consistently getting 6 wrong(total). Many people tell me I should master it before timing myself, you even mentioned 80% of the time is used when you take it. But usually if i am timeed, i tend to rush and look over a few mistakes, but if I am given to much time i 2nd guess my answers and change them to the wrong one.</p>

<p>I like the tip on starring the iffy ones–I do it too,but i never made a note of why i doubted myself. Do you do what you mentioned in CR and mark it on your bubble sheet, and then try to figure out which one was right before looking at actual answer?</p>

<p>Sorry if i asked too many questions, i just feel something is missing and im not sure what. I didn’t see anything that really stood out that made me go OH thats what i need to do to get 0-2 wrong instead of constantly getting 6 wrong. Like i know i should write notes, just what am i supposed to write? I already cut out the BB writing questions I got wrong on while placing them in a notebook, and left space for writing; however, what is next–what do i do to NEVER make this error again?</p>

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<p>If there was a method to never getting the same question wrong, everybody would be getting 2400s. No one can guarantee that you’ll never make the same mistake again. Anything can go wrong. The best anyone can do is to reduce your mistakes to as low as possible.</p>

<p>I took a test this morning. I’ll grade it after some lunch. Feeling a bit ambivalent about this test…</p>

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<p>…2160. I messed up big time.</p>

<p>740 Math for 2 mistakes. 1 stupid and 1 I really didn’t know how to do. </p>

<p>750 writing for 2 mistakes and 10 essay. One was a stupid tense error and the other was a paragraph improving question. </p>

<p>And worst of all 670 reading. 8 mistakes. Many were due to the fact that I didn’t have enough time to finish the sections and I rushed towards the end. </p>

<p>What I learned from this test was that there are still some math topics that I’m weak in that I have to review. For writing I have to COMPLETELY read the question and take my time instead of speeding through. For reading, I have to increase speed by not burning up time on questions I find difficult. I’m going to review my mistakes now and maybe post some of the problems I got wrong later.</p>

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<p>To quickly reply before I go take some senior pics (!!!), @slasheer, yes the answer was B and I made a typo (OHNOES). My bad :/</p>

<p>Regarding my note: I was jotting stuff down quickly, so I suppose “amount” was not the right word exactly. I just thought to myself, “oh, riiiight when I’m comparing amounts or saying something is better THAN something, i use than. here there is an action phrase twice as many do this as they do that…hm i should cut my sentences down to a more simple case next time”</p>

<p>I don’t really look up the answers, unless it’s a grammar rule that I’ve never heard of, or need to refresh up on my irregular past participles (like arisen). </p>

<p>I am a HUGE proponent of timing well and timing effectively. Practice test conditions are way less stressful than the actual test, so you have to account for this difference. I practice with 80% of the given time, as said before. So I do my 25 min sections in 20, 20 min ones in 16 min, and the last section in 8. I set up an interval timer so I try to aim to get everything done before 20, but when I don’t (usually on CR…always on CR actually), I know I have 5 min left and pick up the pace by only doing the problems I’m sure about. </p>

<p>To do CR more quickly, I use a quasi noitaraperp method whereby I mark up all the line-referral questions then read the passage, then answer those questions when I get to the marked line. Before I start the passage, I scan the questions super quickly to see if they are most “big-picture” questions or more nit-picky ones. I read the selection until I get to a line-referral Q or I get to a spot where I can stop without breaking concentration. I scan through the questions quickly and look for ones I can answer. I answer those, saving difficult ones for later. When I’m done with the passage, I make sure I’ve answered all the questions and that I know what the main idea of the passage is. </p>

<p>^^also, yes. I employ the same method of figuring out what is the right answer before actually looking it up for all of my questions (both SAT and not).</p>

<p>eek! how do I attach a pic?? i would love to show you guys how I work through a wrong answer.</p>

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<p>@MedicalBoy</p>

<p>The review-your-mistakes-holistically-and-profusely method only works well if you invest yourself fully into an answer. They say confidence is 90% of the game, and it probs is. The method works for me because on questions I don’t expect to get wrong, I’ve fully invested myself into the right answer; I firmly believe that my choice is correct - until I shockingly find that it is not. </p>

<p>This is quite jarring, and I tend to not forget why I got it wrong, or the parameters involved my getting it wrong. Imagine you have invested all your time and money into a certain stock…and then it loses 100% of its value overnight. You are probably always going to remember that stock and how you lost all that cash if it mattered enough. Similar reasoning w/ SAT Qs.</p>

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<p>usually with an img on google, in chrome, if you drag the picture into a new tab, a new tab appears with the link of the imge. and then you can link that here by pasting the link inside this below without the 1st space.</p>

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<p>Or if you cant do that can you send me at <a href="mailto:tcao15@mail.strakejesuit.org">tcao15@mail.strakejesuit.org</a> I really need to improve, sick of getting 6 wrong consistently</p>

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<p>Neontissues. Yea I know what you mean but I feel like in slasheer’s case, he doesn’t know some of the material to reduce his mistakes. I mean we all make mistakes and I’m just saying that there is no guarantee for absolute perfection.</p>

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<p>Here’s a problem I got wrong this morning. I find it quite ambiguous. </p>

<p>Each student in a group of 30 students studies German, Italian or both. The total number of students studying German is three more than the total number of students studying Italian. If the number of students that study both subjects is the same as the number of students that study exactly one subject, how many students in the group study only Italian?</p>

<p>A) 6
B) 9
C) 15
D) 21
E) 24</p>

<p>What confuses me is the phrasing. When the question says “total number of students studying German” and “total number of students studying Italian” does that include people that study both? Does the category of people studying German include people studying German and Italian? It says TOTAL so…</p>

<p>The third sentence is also confusing. When the question says “number of students that study exactly one subject”, I figured that exactly one subject meant either German or Italian. It turns out that “exactly one subject” turns out to be the collective group of students that take 1 subject. Does anyone else find this ambiguous?</p>

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<p>I just took the writing sections of a PR 11 PT, want to see some improvement before i use up the last 2 writing sections of BB(it’s actually pretty accurate). Except a #14 on Section 10, where they used a colon instead of a semicolon, I though it was wrong cause BB never tested it before.</p>

<p>Agh, i hate when i get an nswer wrong.
Look at this:</p>

<p>To claim that an advertisement persuades whomever one
wants it to persuade is often discounting the intelligence
and even the aptitude of an audience. No Error</p>

<p>I though the wrong answer because “one” didnt seem to fit, and was needless. But i someone told me watch out for parallelism, i probably would have seen “discouting” needed to be “to discount”. This happens a lot, i overlook one type of error because I think it is a different one</p>

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<p>What grade are you all in?</p>

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<p>Going into Junior year, class of 2015 (16 years old).</p>

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<p>Lol you have sooo much time. Don’t waste it lol.</p>

<p>I’m going to be a senior. Last time so I want to do it right!</p>

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<p>I’m trying to figure out your Math problem medical boy, quite a thinker. I might ask Dr. Steve, i learned this in his book, but it gave me trouble.</p>

<p>Also i want to get it over with by this year cause next summer ima be busy Volunterring 100+ hours, and writing essays for the Bill gates Millenium Scholarship + early admissions stuff.</p>

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<p>

Yes it includes the people studying both, and yes to the second question too.</p>

<p>The question says: “the number of students that study both subjects is the same as the number of students that study exactly one subject”, so 15 students study both and 15 students study one subject since there are 30 students, and they have to study at least one subject. Since the number of German students is 3 more than that of the Italians, and the students studying both subject do not have any effect on the difference in 3 (this would make more sense if you drew a venn diagram), we have G + I = 15, and G = I + 3 (G = number of students studying only german, and I = number of students studying only Italian). Therefore, 2I + 3 = 15, and I = 9. So the answer is B.</p>

<p>Drawing Venn diagrams for this kind of problem really helps.</p>

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<p>Did the last 20 min portion of critical reading today and got like 6 wrong when i got 2 to 3 on the other sections is the shorter section any different or did i just **** up?</p>

<p>also got only 3 wrong in the 35 question part of the writing so I’m happy about that</p>

<p>I need to study more vocab though because the lack of my vocab is killing me October is coming so fast</p>

<p>also got both or ericka’s books hopefully their okay</p>

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<p>ok slasheer, here you go (accessing what little programming knowledge i have to bring this to all y’all):</p>

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<a href=“http://www.girlsangle.org/sisiliu/experiments/image(4).jpeg[/url]”>http://www.girlsangle.org/sisiliu/experiments/image(4).jpeg&lt;/a&gt;
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<p>This is not my domain page so I might have to take it down sometime soon.</p>

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<p>thank you for taking the time to do this.LOL 3AM! working hard. I’m curious, about your process.
So you:
1)take the test
2)check the answers without knowing the specific answer
3)try to do the question again
4)see if you were correct the 2nd time
5)Then closely examine your errors, and what you should do next time?</p>

<p>When your writing your detailed analysis, where do you get your explanations from: your assumptions of why you were wrong or ____? </p>

<p>Do you just write or are there specific things you make sure your right?
(i.e. why i chose this over this, why i was wrong, why this is right?)</p>

<p>When you say"reword the question", during the test do you just mentally think of the new sentence or do you actually write it down? </p>

<p>Last question- How do you employ your corrections? Do you just write them down once and take a test the next time, review them right before a test, think about them while your taking a test, or review them constantly at interval?</p>