Nov 3 SAT - VERSION 1: Nature of Brain/Hexagon

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<p>So for math I missed two, and I think I'm getting two wrong? (Especially frustrating since it's one that I should have gotten right.) Predict my score folks.</p>

<p>I really guessed on the rectangle one (24,000, 35,000 etc.) because I didn't have time to work out the quadratic =. I chose 24,000 because the reduced proportion looked right ... I wouldn't think you would take away over half the area by cutting a 10 inch square from a 70 by 50 inch box? </p>

<p>Wait, now that I actually recall the question, if you took away 10 inch square (I assume this is per side) from each of the corners then you folded it, then you should end up with an enclosed surface area of </p>

<p>agh.</p>

<p>You didn't even need a quadratic.</p>

<p>I am feeling like an idiot today.</p>

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<ol>
<li>wasn't it? hey, does anyone know which sections were math and grid in?</li>
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<p>Anyone had fundamental character?</p>

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<p>it was fundamental character</p>

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<p>I am having a really hard time finding the score tables for previous tests ... this perplexes me because I could so easily google it before ...</p>

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<p>Critical Reading
1. Mexican Girl Marta who asked for her father's permission to go to HS.
. Resignation when he talked with the fisherman
. Dumbfounded when fisherman is consulted on something so important
. Father is sociable-reserved
. Final sentence makes story significant by showing Marta fulfilled her promise
. Earnest when asking father initially to go to school</p>

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<li><p>Mini-Pair on advertising on the internet versus advertising on TV
. second passage shows people avoiding ads
. passage 1 would learn from passage 2 by placing internet ads on popular websites</p></li>
<li><p>One Paragraph about the writing of Chesnutt
. The metaphor on woodcutting shows his writing was deep/penetrating
. The comments are reactions by his contemporaries.</p></li>
<li><p>One Paragraph about what is natural
. Purpose is to dispel a misconception
. Colloquial statement "Vaccine ain't" = to back up assertion</p></li>
<li><p>Passage about the architecture of a museum
. Crass social consumerism or something like that = theme park
. Competition makes museums do things they arent suited for
. Building's fundamental character = the spirit
. "circumstantial requirements" = Legal height of building
. Center of museum = the art on display
. List of places in museum = to show museum's many facets
. Taking old, unrecognized works and dispalying them is not what the author perceives most museums to be doing
. Ornate museum would be a put-off to society
. Museum = civic = responsibility to society (unlike private)</p></li>
<li><p>Passage about the adversarial nature of US justice system
. European courts = dont fabricate evidence
. Critic said that people would lose confidence in societal institutions
. Claim = assertion</p></li>
<li><p>Paired Passage about the nature of the human brain
. Take = outlook (a modern outlook)
. Two authors were both something like "tempting but not correct"
. Ending sentences = cautionary v. stirring
. Descrates dignified --> added philosophy to</p></li>
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<p>Sentence Completions
1. Guy on the cover of Time Magazine was RECOGNIZED for his GROUNDBREAKING work.
2. Guy mistook a woman for a man and was thus ERRONEOUS
3. Indefatigable = SLEEP
4. Nothing affects her = PLACID
5. Verve = PANACHE
6. Art = EPITOME
7. Teachers/students = COMMENDABLE/EXEMPLARY i think those were the choices
8. Blood pressure = DISRUPT/MINIMIZE (or maybe some synonym of disrupt)
9. APOCRYPHAL because the writing was of dubious authenticity or something like that.
10. Person's temperament changed from EFFUSIVE to RETICENCE
11. DISPROVE...REFUTE
12. CURTAIL - I believe because of a lack of funds
13. INDIGENOUS
14. SCORN ..DEIGN (They SCORNED her because she didn't have a PhD and would not DEIGN to look at her work or something like that.
15. ADVOCATES...CRITICS</p>

<p>Someone post more writing questions lol
Writing
. Were we to change = correct --- currently under debate
. Diction error = insure --- assure
TWO NO ERRORS</p>

<p>Math
. Honeycomb = equilateral triangle...sure it was a hexagon, but not regular
. Upside down parabolas --- c = -17 c as in c the constant, but the choice is e.
. Constant of 5 sequence (1243) 28th digit = 3
. 50th day after sunday = Monday lolololoollo
. Sum of x + y +z = 13/6 of x
. Average of the 30 numbers = 9.1
. Antifreeze = 40% graph interp lol
. ABCD with rectangle and two congruent triangles = area of 25
. Set A = even numbers, Set B = 2 digit mult of 7 ---> 7 numbers intersect
. Length of rectangle with length 3x and width x in yards = 315
. Segment tangent to circle --- area = 1/8 of circle
. Three parallel lines, the fifth can make = ZERO triangles
. Most common price = $4.50
. 5% tax --> cost $2000 originally
. Root 153 was distance between intercepts
. Rectangle box = volume of 15000</p>

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<p>galoisien, i posted this in another thread but...</p>

<p>Each number listed = 800 (like -2 CR) unless otherwise noted.
October 2005: -2 CR, -1 M = 790
January 2006: -2 CR, -1 M
May 2006: -2 CR (-3 on raw, meaning you can either miss 2 or leave 3 blank, or a combo...to make raw score decrease by 3), -1 M = 790
October 2006: -2 CR (-3 on raw), -1 M
January 2007: -2 CR (-3 on raw), -1 M = 780
May 2007: -2 CR, -1 M
June 2007: -2 CR (maybe -3 on raw?), -1 M = 780
October 2007: ? CR, -1 M = 780</p>

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<p>Can anyone recall the answers to charles chestnutt?</p>

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<p>I want to know which section was grid in and numbers of math sections..</p>

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<p>im maybe mixing stuff up but im talking about the guy who was compassionate and stuff but looked menacing to other people...i said something about his conduct towards other people.</p>

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<p>Echelon: yeah, but that only tells me if I only missed one or two questions.</p>

<p>Currently I'm quite concerned because I've already identified two missed ones and two wrong ones...</p>

<p>Also, if you have a fractional raw score, do they round up or down?</p>

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<p>hmm I have tables for those tests if you have a specific raw score to look up - they came with the QAS.
They should round to the nearest whole number, but .5 goes up:
36.25 = 36, 36.5 = 37, 36.75 = 37.</p>

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<p>Anyone had Writing section as a experimental. What were the math section #'s? and grid in also?</p>

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<p>Do you have any links to various tables? I just want a general look at them ...</p>

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<p>I think most of the people on this thread had writing section as exp, some had math exp, either way, the math section numbers vary from individual to individual. I think mine were 4, 7, 9 (grid in on 7)</p>

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<p>why is the hexagon probelm a triangle ... i dont get it..</p>

<p>also, in the writing section,</p>

<p>there was one sentence about the director of Life as a Dog..</p>

<p>and if he didnt had a childlike perspective, had he not portrayed something..
what's the answer? </p>

<p>and one with the reporter... like if her boss didnt check something
she would have written? and ran the story? i dont know. please help me</p>

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<p>I think i put No Error for the reporter thing.</p>

<p>For the sentence completion regarding the scientist's experiment and lack of funding...was it curtailed or eradicated? i put eradicate but now that i think of it, curtail seems better. sigh!</p>

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<p>Echelon32 . Do you think you had honeycomb with hexagonal one in sec.9 ? and did you have writing exp.?</p>

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<p>". 5% tax --> cost $2000 originally"</p>

<p>2000? I don't remember this question perfectly but I do not remember putting down 2000 for any answer on math. What was this question?</p>

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<p>The honeycomb question was a topographical question, and quite a beautiful one. That's why I say you should have a general proof ... </p>

<p>Anyway jane, look at it this way. A circle is a set of points equidistant from some center right? </p>

<p>Well here it's not quite all points, but observe how all the points are an equal "distance" from the "center" yet fall on smooth lines running through the hexagons, themselves of equal distance, intersecting at three vertices.</p>