<p>compared to past SAT's, do you think CR today was easier/average/harder? i want to hear thoughts on either version of the test, but it would help if you discussed the mother's language/machu piccu/fuel cell version as that is what i took...</p>
<p>2 INCORRECT = 800? fair estimate?</p>
<p>i've heard that there have been tests in the past that had a 3 INCORRECT = 800 curve. Is this true? and if so, how rare would this happen...(this is just pure curiosity speaking)</p>
<p>This was my first SAT, but to give you my thoughts…</p>
<p>I thought that the mother’s language and Machu Picchu passages were pretty straight forward. I think I did well on those, or at least better than I’ve been doing on CR (not too great.)</p>
<p>The fuel cell passage was hard. I’m not too confident on that one, maybe ~50% of those questions right.</p>
<p>Did you have the passage that started with Shakespeare’s quote about how the world is a stage and how the people are merely actors or whatnot? I just wanna make sure that was experimental. I left a sentence completion and a long passage question blank on that one and found it almost as difficult as the fuel cell passage. If it is experimental, then I only left the snowflake sentence completion blank, which may be good or bad.</p>
<p>i had no shakespeare. i had an experimental cr that had to do with behavioral modification. im sure those were experimental…</p>
<p>i also think those two passages were straightforward, although i made two ■■■■■■■■ errors on the machu piccu one (damnit). i hope to god i didn’t make any other mistakes, and i’m trying to remember hard questions i could’ve missed but i am having trouble with the “official cr thread” people. nobody seems to agree on a couple questions, and i strongly disagree with a couple answers on their “consolidated” list. :(</p>
<p>Fuel cell/ mother’s language/ Machu Picchu were pretty easy. Vocab owned me and so did the neuroscience/free will passages.</p>
<p>Yeah the neuroscience/free will passages were pretty hard. I didn’t feel all that bad about them but I don’t remember my answers so I can’t compare =</p>
<p>I had a different test but the passages weren’t too bad. I hope it isn’t a hard curve though.</p>
<p>All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players…</p>
<p>Ahh, As You Like It :)</p>
<p>That’s the quote pyroza! The author opened up with that and talked about something with Newton and then went into a big game of 20 questions that a scientist played with other scientists and it served as a metaphor for something. Thank god it was experimental.</p>
<p>dudes, can you explain to me something on the language passage. im so confused. i feel liek i didn’t do the back page or somethng.</p>
<p>the questions about “perpetual…” and “childish language”</p>
<p>do any of you guys remember the question?</p>
<p>compared to the jan test, this was way harder!!</p>
<p>others have any idea what the curve is going to be like?</p>
<p>@Scott, I got “abandon childish language” or something like that.
I got the version with the machu pichu, mother language, Russian conductor in BSO, neuroscience/free will one, hydrogen fuel cells. He last two were hard :(</p>
<p>does anyone remember the SC one about some species? Something like
although the species is dying off, the future does not look so _<strong><em>, as the costal wetlands </em></strong> Development in north america.
I put auspicious, succumb to, but I realized auspicious is a word with positive connotation.
It might’ve been ominous and something</p>
<p>^ It was auspicious and succumb to. Auspicious basically means favorable, which fits into the sentence. The first part was something like “Although the species is growing in this specific area, the future does not look so _______,”</p>
<p>does anyone remember the answer to " what does ‘watered’ closely mean in the passage of machu pichu?" i put moistened at first then changed my answer to consumed. anyone remmeber the answer</p>
<p>Moistened.</p>
<p>I put consumed. =/</p>
<p>does anyone remember an answer being “perpetual…” for the language passage?</p>
<p>The passages were pretty easy, being that I was able to finish them fast, without re-reading, and confidently. However in 2 of my 3 reading sections, the vocab was crazy hard. Normally I get 85-90% on the vocab, but do horribly on the passages. So Idk.</p>
<p>Scott, I answered this in the CR section, but the question was like, “What does the author suggest about ancient languages?”
And the answer was like “We perpetuate ancient languages in conversations everyday.”</p>
<p>I put the same answer that Jshapiro put. I was between that and that we’re ignorant about where our language comes from. The choice said that the we PREFER to be ignorant about it or something, so then the answer would be that we perpetuate ancient languages in conversations everyday.</p>