<p>D came back and is now off to have birthday lunch with friends who were also at SAT. She said it was pretty much what she expected, thought the essay topic was easy. We'll find out in a month.</p>
<p>OK guys - My D decided to go for it! I'm starting to pace between gardening and paperwork, so I thought I'd check on the East coast!<br>
No real word yet! Expect to hear from D w/in the hour! Will let you know!</p>
<p>We got a call from son. Test went "fine." When pressed, said it was sort of as expected - hard to tell. Essay on creativity. He was eager to get going, but he didn't sound especially tired or down, so I guess that's good.</p>
<p>Way too long! D left home at 7:30 am and did not get home till 1 pm. And we live 10 minutes from the school/test center! Only the strong survive.</p>
<p>My son called to say the test was okay. Writing and Math were fine but Critical Reading was really hard. Didn't complain about the length of the test, though. Hard to interpret what he really means.</p>
<p>WildChild reports, "It was OK. I'm sure I did fine." "It was about the same as the last one. The essay wasn't hard." He is off to watch a track meet and said he didn't get tired or hungry. He is SUCH a wealth of information. He also said he would rather shoot himself than look at the thread on the SAT CC section on the answers people put for all the questions.</p>
<p>lol - mowc - I can't imagine my kid looking on this board either, much less posting on it- especially after the SAT.</p>
<p>D called about a half hour ago! Said the test was ridiculously long! She felt she started out ok & that it will be interesting to see how she did! Says at least now she knows what to expect! Ran into all kinds of people she hasn't seen in years! They're all going out to lunch! Says she's bringing a friend home to work on a project! Seems in great spirits anyway! I just feel relief! And glad I'm not grading those essays!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>D. was definitely relieved when it was over. She kept saying "I can't believe I finally took it!" in the car on the way home. :)</p>
<p>She felt good about the math (keeping fingers double crossed that that proves to be true as that is her weak point), thought the reading was fine, and felt the writing multiple choice questions were harder than expected (that was her strongest suit on the PSATs and in practice tests). She said there were lots of "tricky" questions on the writing section where there were two possible answers and she had to really think things through. She thought the essay was fine (the topic here was something on the importance of creativity in society) and it sounded like she used some good examples BUT she said she didn't get to finish her conclusion completely. </p>
<p>The kids didn't come out of the test center until 1:00 - don't know if they had problems getting started or what but everyone looked pretty tired on the way out. D. said her back was bothering her halfway through the test and another longer break during it would have helped.</p>
<p>So, now the waiting game begins. She's upstairs now signing up for the May test.</p>
<p>Ah- I love girls. They actually talk to their moms about things like this. ;)</p>
<p>You've got that right asap. Son said it was, "a test" and "way too long." We need some more daughters on this board!</p>
<p>Yes, ASAP, my son communicates with me mainly in grunts. If something really important in on his mind, I might get a two word sentence out of him. My daughter sometimes makes me sleepy telling me ALL of the minute-by-minute details of her life, her friends' lives, her teachers' lives, the neighbors' lives...... :)</p>
<p>More from Wildchild- The proctor went to Starbucks during one of the 5 minute breaks and was gone for 15 minutes. This was after telling S he couldn't bring his Starbucks into the test! He said they were in the room until 1 o'clock. When he got home and I wasn't here (I was at lunch with a friend), he asked D why I wasn't online finding out what all the east coast kids thought about the test. I think I may be over-the-top with this CC stuff......</p>
<p>Got a few words from BlueSon -- essay was "not bad"; several parts were "tricky", math was "fine". End of critique.</p>
<p>Even tho they were one of the first classes seated (we got there early), they were last out, at 1:00 pm -- the proctor was sooooooo slow she kept re-reading the instructions so she could understand them. Finally, a student in the front row offered to read them for her. LOL</p>
<p>Bluebayou: LOL! As long as she does not double as an essay reader!</p>
<p>why couldn't they have 2 math sections and one english???? argh!</p>
<p>D didn't tell me much (a bit unusual for her), but she was busy. I highly doubt she'll check out the SAT discussion here, although she did last year (and posted with my screenname!). Please, please, please let her have done well enough not to take it again! She is so <em>over</em> the SAT; it's now on to APs and SATIIs. </p>
<p>S (in 8th grade) would prefer to communicate in grunts and other sound effects. But I get him back - "Mom, what's for dinner?" "mmmphhh".</p>
<p>Does anyone think that test preping by actually taking an official SAT helps? (EVERYTHING's the same!) If you do well, keep the score, if you don't feel like you did well (like me w/ today's test) just cancel, and take it next time. Yeah, i guess the $$ matters here then, but it's under exact same test conditions!</p>
<p>danielsjang -- I took the SAT for the first time today as a sophomore, because I wanted to evaluate my strengths and weaknesses in order to know what I need to work on next year when it really matters that I do well on it. I'm glad I made that decision, because the testing conditions made a much bigger difference than I thought. Another thing I realized was that I really, really need to review my eighth grade geometry. I could have answered anything on conics and logarithms, but I couldn't remember how to find the circumference of a circle. :o</p>
<p>TYG, that is what I had been told by other parents. The math section is the one that needs preparation. Writing and Reading skills are additive. Old skills are used along with new ones. It is not so with math, and so the more talented students are in advanced math and haven't used some skills, like simple geometry, in years. It is therefore worth the time to take an SAT, in either a real or practice situation, to see what stupid mistakes you are prone to make. Reading is the best preparation for the other two sections</p>