Oct 20 - Saturday SAT - What'd You Think?

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<p>Well, it's finally over. I thought I'd start the inevitable discussion thread myself. Keep responses low profile (no answers/questions) until Monday. I'll start with my own responses: </p>

<p>I thought it was a little bit too easy considering it is the PSAT. CR-Fun passages, reasonable questions, ok vocab; W-Pretty easy overall with a few tricks here and there. Though I don't want to judge it too hastily. M-Easy w/ a few tricky problems. Grid-ins were pushovers and one or two hard but do-able MCs. Overall: I have a feeling the curve won't be very good for any section...Predictions on NMSF cutoffs? (I'm in NJ anyway, so yeah...)</p>

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<p>I felt the first two sections were pretty easy, maybe one hard vocab and probably two wrong on math section.</p>

<p>i think the next 2 sections were sort of hard.</p>

<p>writing was so-so.</p>

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<p>Sounds just like the Wednesday PSAT- Everything relatively simple except for 1 or 2 tricky ones in each section.</p>

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<p>I think the first CR section was hard....nasty vocab (passages were weird but easy)</p>

<p>The first math section was also mildly hard because of some tricky tricky questions. </p>

<p>The rest was nice.</p>

<p>The writing was a joke (easy 80)</p>

<p>I hope they have a nice curve though on the M + CR</p>

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<p>NMS cutoffs shouldn't be very different from the usual, though I wouldn't be TOO surprised if they were lower.</p>

<p>Math was pretty good, as were CR and WS. The passages for CR were a lot of fun, that's for sure.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I was so happy when I figured out that there were no Native American passages for once (nothing against NA's, the passages about them are just usually very boring). I have a feeling the cutoffs will be a bit more stringent than usual. The first math section had two tough questions, each requiring quite a bit of thought, but I already know I got them correct. Knowing Latin actually saved me on a few of the vocabs which was sweet.</p>

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<p>What did you guys think about the the MCs for the 2nd math section?</p>

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<p>Math - a few tricky, but easy. </p>

<p>Writing - Easy. </p>

<p>Critical Reading - Moderate.</p>

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<p>^ "A few" is enough to make the difference between a 80 and a 60 o_O (since -1 is usually -2 to -5 or sometimes even -6 out of 80 on each section)</p>

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Math - a few tricky, but easy.</p>

<p>Writing - Easy.</p>

<p>Critical Reading - Moderate.

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<p>Sounds exactly like the Wednesday test. :D</p>

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<p>Ack, just figured out that I actually missed one on the CR (vocab obviously). The only problems stemmed from CR (vocab, passage questions were straightforward and reasonable); section 2 on the math was a bit tougher, but overall it was certainly possible to get the right answers. I already cross-checked all math. Writing was easy to rush through with a few exceptions caused by confusing wording.</p>

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<p>What do you guys think the curves will be like?</p>

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<p>the writing curve is going to be really harsh, since it was sooooo easy (easy 80)
[1wrong = -3 or -4(unlikely)]</p>

<p>the critical reading will be moderate
[1wrong = -1 to -2]</p>

<p>math might be a little harsher than usual, since most of the questions were pretty easy (only about 2/3 hard ones in each section)
[1wrong = -2 maybe -3]</p>

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<p>Math was really easy. I spoke two some of my other friends and the only tricky problems were the write in questions. Couple of them were sort of iffy.</p>

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<p>CR vocab, I'm starting to realize, tripped me up a bit. Revised curve prediction:</p>

<p>Math - 1 wrong = 76
CR - 1 wrong = 78
W - 1 wrong = 76 or 77</p>

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<p>Math -80
Cr- 30
Wr-30 JK
Naw but Cr is prolly like 70 and so is writing. I am pretty sure i got 80 on math, it was pretty tricky but i am pretty sure i got them all right.</p>

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<p>I made two really really dumb errors on math so I got 2 wrong on it :( Probably got an 80 on Writing, and a 78 on CR. Anyone know what 2 wrong on Math would be?</p>

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<p>i thought sentence completion was pretty hard</p>

<p>besides the vocab, everything else was really easy (math and writing was a joke), though i am not sure how i did on the long passages on the first section.</p>

<p>I am hoping
CR: -6? :(
M: -0
W: -0</p>

<p>around 226 hopefully.</p>

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<p>can someone explain to me how many questions were in each section and how the scoring system works?</p>

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<p>wait, I thought you could afford to get 2-3 wrong on the psat and still score 800?</p>