<p>So that cr section I had WAS experimental? I will provide a couple more details. For question4 choices included festoon, periphery, patina. For question 5 I only remember the answer choice solipsistic</p>
<p>langston hughes was not the experimental…i believe it was a short passage</p>
<p>i had a long passage based on literacy, i know it mentioned plato and homer…</p>
<p>I had V1 experimental…CR was whether groups affect individual opinions</p>
<p>I had an extra writing section with the improving paragraphs passage about a girl who traveled to Ireland, the birthplace of her grandmother. I thought that was experimental since the questions had an unusual choice E where the format goes like this:</p>
<p>3#.) What is the best way to fix sentence # (reproduced below)</p>
<p>(sentence here, in italics)</p>
<p>Choice was the option to delete the sentence, and I have never seen that choice before on a SAT, so I thought that was experimental.</p>
<p>I had Langston, Quantum, DragonWings, and Deception. The section with festoon, patina, etc. only had 23 questions so I thought it had to have been experimental. Can anyone confirm only having 23 questions?</p>
<p>Has anyone been able to find a critical reading thread?</p>
<p>shoot4ivy, I didn’t have an experimental writing, but one of the answers I got was definitely “delete the sentence”. I don’t think I had anything about Ireland though…</p>
<p>Thanks again to contributors. If you mentioned a version which I didn’t recognize, I automatically put it under experimental, even if it may have been a normal part of the version that I didn’t get. If someone who had V1 writing, either version CR (as I believe that one may have been my own experimental), and/or V1 math could confirm that they did NOT recognize any of the experimental (?) sections, I will take that as a confirmation that they are indeed experimental.</p>
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Since you had the same CR version that I did (quantum physics/deception) and I do not remember those words at all, I think you may have had an experimental section. It just so happens that CB decided to mix everything up for the Nov. SAT, though, so I’m not 100% sure.</p>
<p>[Right now I’m trying to figure out if everyone got either Version 1 or 2 of the entire test, or if everyone got one of two versions in each category. Same with experimentals - are V1 experimentals different than V2’s?]</p>
<p>Also, if it makes any difference, I do remember seeing ‘Delete the sentence’ options on practice tests, though I’m unsure whether or not I saw it in my test (I had V2 writing).</p>
<p>Writing
VERSION 1: College student board games, botanical garden, Film?
VERSION 2: Dragonwings/Chinatown, 14000 feet/3 miles
EXPERIMENTAL: Pyramids in Egypt (?), Girl visits Grandmother in Ireland (?)</p>
<p>Just for people taking the SAT later looking for past prompts to study -
ESSAY TOPIC WEST COAST: Is imagination less valuable than facts and objectivity?
ESSAY TOPIC EAST COAST: Is it better to focus on doing something for yourself or others? (paraphrased)</p>
<p>Critical Reading
VERSION 1: Echolocation, College Athletes, Bats, Music
VERSION 2: Farmhouse, Deception, Quantum Physics
EXPERIMENTAL: Festoon/solipsistic/patina, Clouds and Scientists (?) + Drawing girl (?), Fingerprints (?), groups affecting individuals’ decisions (?), Plato/Homer (?)</p>
<p>Math
VERSION 1: 7^1600, water hose, 100th row
VERSION 2: Multiple of 6/8/9, circle inscribed in two squares
EXPERIMENTAL: ?</p>
<p>any chance the math with the revolutions or surface area of cubes is experimental?</p>
<p>The surface area was 26, not experimental (i had CR EXP.)</p>
<p>I had the Deception, Quantum physics one.
I got CR experimental, and I think on the one I had there was a long passage about two girls traveling to grandmas’ and watching them fight, and there was a short passage about hummingbird(dk how to spell)… can anyone confirm that hummingbird was an experimental?</p>
<p>I got the grandma fighting one too . Too bad it was experimental ;( It was so easy.</p>
<p>i knw right… and the quantum physics+daughter&fathering redoing the house was just brutal :(</p>
<p>I remember having a passage about adults who play video games, did anyone else have this?</p>
<p>1st reading: man from northern city+langston hughs + farmhouse
2nd reading: Chemical Farming
3rd reading: Carribean
4th reading: Deception (definitely not experiment)</p>
<p>So which one is the experimental section?</p>
<p>I know another experimental. It was a dual long-reading passage defining what colleges goals should be. One passage advocated the strengthening of analytical skills and another advocated the strengthening the prevalence of moral character within students.</p>
<p>For those who had the same reading as me, which reading is the experimental?</p>
<p>gensis - When you contributed the ‘grandmas fighting’ on the first page, I thought you were joking; it’s added now.</p>
<p>For some reason we’re getting tons of CR experimentals, a few writing, and no math. I know math problems are harder to remember though. If anyone’s lurking, any little piece of information helps.</p>
<p>hypsmc - I had all of those (except for northern city man?) and more (a long passage on fingerprint analysis). However, I’m pretty sure chemical farming was 2 short passages.</p>
<p>jessicaxu1207 - I had the hummingbirds one too, if that helps (V2 CR). I can’t say yet if that was experimental or not. </p>
<p>Writing
VERSION 1: College student board games, botanical garden, Film?
VERSION 2: Dragonwings/Chinatown, 14000 feet/3 miles
EXPERIMENTAL: Pyramids in Egypt (?), Girl visits Grandmother in Ireland (?)</p>
<p>Just for people taking the SAT later looking for past prompts to study -
ESSAY TOPIC WEST COAST: Is imagination less valuable than facts and objectivity?
ESSAY TOPIC EAST COAST: Is it better to focus on doing something for yourself or others? (paraphrased)</p>
<p>Critical Reading
VERSION 1: Echolocation, College Athletes, Bats, Music
VERSION 2: Farmhouse, Deception, Quantum Physics
EXPERIMENTAL: Festoon/solipsistic/patina, Clouds and Scientists (?) + Drawing girl (?), Fingerprints (?), groups affecting individuals’ decisions (?), Plato/Homer (?), grandmas fighting (?), college goals (?)</p>
<p>Math
VERSION 1: 7^1600, water hose, 100th row
VERSION 2: Multiple of 6/8/9, circle inscribed in two squares
EXPERIMENTAL: ?</p>
<p>@hypsmc I think we had the same cr, as long as yours had a passage about quantum physics.</p>
<p>If so, unless my test booklet was faulty, I am positive there was a section with only 23 questions. I remember it had the sentence completions with the vocab terms festoon and patina. Unfortunately, I dont quite remember the readings. So you remember what passages this section included?</p>
<p>@sukmabigdik
Well, my problem is that I don’t even remember seeing festoon and patina. Now I’m guessing the “Carribeans” was the experimental section. Any thoughts?</p>