<p>@jerseykid55, but i hope it’s not as harsh as the march '10 one (-1 =800, -2=780, -3=730)</p>
<p>^ Yeah. I got -4, which was a 720. Painful I tell you, haha.</p>
<p>So what do you think a -3, -4 and -5 wrong would be yall.</p>
<p>Edit- yeah i didn’t do so bad in March and I got a 690. EVERY sentence completion right and still a 690 :(</p>
<p>That’s really unfortunate that the curves aren’t based on the actual test results. </p>
<p>A few friends and I were arguing the positives of taking the test now, in October, as opposed to spring. If you think about it, only motivated people likely to do well on the test and go to college take the test their junior year. Everyone (that has any intent to continue their education at all) has to take the test in October or November, so those tests are filled with a lot of kids that won’t do as well on the tests, and consequently boosting up the bell curve.</p>
<p>My predictions:
67 - 800
66 - 800
65 - 790
64 - 770
63 - 750
62 - 740
61 - 720
60 - 710</p>
<p>Too nice?</p>
<p>I thought the curve was predetermined.</p>
<p>June wasn’t too harsh. I had -4 in SC (LOL, I’m telling you, they were HARD), and -2 in passage-based reading. I got a 730. So the curve must have been like:</p>
<p>800
800
800
770
750
730</p>
<p>^^yeah, march curve was brutal, possibly the worst one to date :[</p>
<p>imo, -3,-4,-5 will be 770, 760, and 740 on this test</p>
<p>Too nice?
^That’s not too nice. The average is you can get 3 wrong and still have an 800.
<a href=“http://www.erikthered.com/tutor/SAT-Released-Test-Curves.pdf[/url]”>http://www.erikthered.com/tutor/SAT-Released-Test-Curves.pdf</a>
Scroll down to CR. 
I’m thinking it’ll probably be average.</p>
<p>im hoping for it to be average haha, then -3 (63 raw) is still 770</p>
<p>okay good. I had homer.</p>
<p>“Oh yeah, I put probably did happen because of the lack of evidence to the contrary. It was very ambiguous, but my reasoning was that the majority of the passage was talking about how people (philosopher’s name that I don’t want to butcher by trying to spell it) were trying to prove it without concrete evidence. All of the evidence offered was in favor that it existed, almost arguing for it, instead of questioning the plausibility.”</p>
<p>^ but the author was totally against the fact that people and thuc. did so.</p>
<p>I’m going to quote from the original passage; CB would not have cut a passage that showed a complete different author opinion from the original passage.</p>
<p>“In the ancient world it was the almost uniform belief that the Trojan War was a historical event: the philosopher Anaxoragas was one of only a handful known to have doubted it, on the GOOD grounds that there was no proof.”</p>
<p>“It is interesting to see that those historians were prepared to give total credence to the basis of the tradition of Homer.”</p>
<p>“It still remains a plausible model, despite the fact that many scholars today doubt the existence of … the Trojan War: plausible, but as yet devoid of proof.”</p>
<p>nvm----------</p>
<p>hiiii someone help me. please post a consolidated list ive looked through 100’s of pages and cant find it. or just post whatever you think is right for the questions you remember. PLEASE. and also what was the vocab questions with Wasted?</p>
<p>Oh you’re right, I reread wrong.</p>
<p>It is -2 still 800 not -3. Fail. 
Daaarn. My dreams for an 800 in CR have been smashed unless I got that probably question right and didn’t make any other mistakes.</p>
<p>*read wrong</p>
<p>Sentence Completions
1.Decorum…
2.prolific…trenchant
3.retiring…penchant
4.slovenly
5.ecletic
6.unremitting
7.mudslinging
8.permeate
----9 was a duplicate
10.traversing…wealth
11.reconciliating…enmity
12.benign
13.illicit
14.thriving…harsh
15.misnomer
16.circumspect…erroneously
17.downplay…magnitude
18.wasted</p>
<p>Passage About Jumping Rope
19.Parents habits were predictable
20.line __ suggests that they were confident about their jump roping skills
21.vibrant and well being for the helix
22.ice skater
23.a significant personal pastime
32. comparison </p>
<p>Passage about Trojan War
24.thucidides based most of his work from Homer
25.magna carta question…to vividly portray the time gap between the writings?
26.uniform most nearly means unanimous
27.probably did occur because there was no evidence against it
28.some celebrate events are not verified
29.paradox because people firmly believe in something without evidence
30.Thucydides conveyed that the imbalance of power worked to the benefit of some, at the expense of others.</p>
<p>Movie Critic
31.relationship between style and substance
----32 was a duplicate
33.genius most nearly means exceptional talent
34.true most nearly means genuine
35.first few lines suggest that the narrator has admiration for Kael
36.Whom would it offend? - Discerning Moviegoers
37.Oscar wilde - artfully written biography with factual errors
38.lively and compelling for the question about the ‘fizz’
39.hacked down means critize vigorously
40.-passage suggest there was disagreement over her work
41.for question with 2 people, she wasn’t the only one that preferred less ornate writing
42.something about colloquial
43.- the personal anecdote - introduction
44.resolute</p>
<p>Rewilding
45.ethical issue because humans probably had a part in it
46.Passage 2 author would think that the “significant risks” mentioned in Passage 1 were well-founded
47.undesirable
48.coping with problems and not finding solutions
49.- Passage 1 would think the last part of Passage 2 (the suggestions about what to do with the money) was inadequate.
50. Last part of passage 2 - suggesting alternatives.
51.concession leading to rebuttal
52.Something about the cheetah in P1 and mammoth in P2 - both are extinct.
53.The situation with the camel in rewilding - unable to live in the nonnative environment.
54. Most important concern about rewilding raised in P2 - that the proxy species could irreversibly impact the native species and their ecological system?
55.the authors use questions to raise doubts regarding their opposition
63. distinct = different
64. both authors took positions on a possible plan of action</p>
<p>Funding of radio short passage
56.harming the function of america’s democracy or something.
57.-analogy
58.passage 1 was more emphatic
59.passage 2 makes points, and passage 2 presents conflicting views</p>
<p>Log Cabin Short Passage
60.antidote
61.shortlived</p>
<p>Mother/Daughter Short Passage
62.conviction</p>
<p>PLEASE SOMEONE tell me how omitting works. I did 3-4?</p>
<p>@ clauxy </p>
<p>omitting and getting questions wrong just affect your raw score.
I’m sure you know omitting is -1 and wrong answers is -1.25 from the raw score.
then your raw score (.5 rounds up) is compared to the potential conversions people are posting.</p>
<p>
Omitting takes away from your raw score, but you don’t get penalized by 1/4 of a point like you would if you got a question wrong.</p>
<p>The author of the trojan war passage was subtly arguing against the existence of the wars. By examining the other answers that we have compiled for that passage, one can clearly conclude that the author is implying that there is no evidence for the war.</p>
<p>25.magna carta question…to vividly portray the time gap between the writings? (shows how implausible the writings of the philosopher and homer are)
28.some celebrate events are not verified (supports that there’s no evidence for the war)
29.paradox because people firmly believe in something without evidence (pointing again to the unverified trojan wars)</p>
<p>All these other answers from the same passage point to the answer choice “probably not, because there’s no evidence that supports the war”.</p>
<p>i put diffident…
but the answer is retiring and penchant
the word “although” suggest that the two clauses are opposites.
although she’s kind of shy, she still has a desire for attention.
diffident fits the first slot, but aversion towards doesn’t fit the second…
also</p>
<p>was the retiring — penchant question part of the experimental?</p>
<p>Trojan War quote:
“It still remains a plausible model, DESPITE THE FACT that most scholars today doubt the existence of the Mycenaean empire, the Trojan War, and even Troy itself: plausible, but AS YET incapable of proof.”</p>
<p>That’s why it’s probably, because despite the fact that most scholars doubt it, shows that he is not among these scholars. As yet incapable of proof shows that one day there might be proof.
So it’s probable.</p>