October 2010 SAT - Experimentals

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<p>Experimental sections are sections that don’t count toward your score. CB throws one in per test (either CR, M, or W MC) to test out new questions that may show up on future tests. The thing is, nobody knows which section is experimental (otherwise, we’d all sleep through it or Christmas-tree it and CB wants student data).</p>

<p>Was the math experimental the one with question number 2 asking the first number in a sequence of even integers</p>

<p>I had two Math grid-ins in Section 3 and Section 4 - and naturally I think I did a whole lot worse in Section 4. I don’t remember any specific questions which is a problem.</p>

<p>If I have two Math grid-ins, would it then make it that that is the experimental section I had? Or could I have had a Math and Reading experimental?</p>

<p>I had the Trojan War, movie critic, etc. but I did NOT have anything with Disneyland…</p>

<p>I had two grid-ins as well, either 2&3 or 3&4. One question gave an incomplete list of numbers and you had to find one that was both the average of the list and the median??? Anyone else remember that?</p>

<p>Can someone who had the reading experimental elaborate on the Disneyland part because I’m positive I had the reading experimental just can’t remember the questions. So what questions were in it and which section?</p>

<p>Ok I had two 35Q wiritng sections. One was definitely an experimental. One of the passage corrections was about organic food and the other was about Sound affecting vision? Which one was experimental?></p>

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<p>Sound affecting vision.</p>

<p>I had had one math grid-in/two non-grid-ins and two twenty minutes sections (one math/one reading). Is it possible for the experimental section to be 20minutes long? (I hope it is because I completely slacked on my last math section- thought it was experimental…).</p>

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<p>I’m sure math was my experimental. +I had organic food in my W section.</p>

<p>I’d go with Sound affecting vision.</p>

<p>Here’s another one for sound affecting vision.</p>

<p>It’s funny how I don’t remember something until someone mentions it here.</p>

<p>Which reading section had the log road passage in it? Please be experimental! : (</p>

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<p>No idea. But that section wasn’t expermiental, I got that section and I had an experimental math section already.</p>

<p>Anyone can tell me what problems were in the experimental math section? I’m really hoping about one section where I recall I left the last 3-4 blank. I think it had a dice question and another question with 3 variables with 2 being in separate equation’s exponents? I couldn’t get started on them mentally…</p>

<p>I also had one about television ruining our ability to think for ourselves or something like that. The questions were weird, so I’m actually pretty sure that one was experiemental…</p>

<p>I had 4 math sections, so I’m certain one was experimental, but I only had one grid-in? There was one section that had pentagons made of toothpicks and then there was one that had a smaller triangle within a larger triangle and a question about dice(as Kalookakoo describes). Does anyone know if either of those was experimental?</p>

<p>@Nonexistent: Those passages (assuming they were about PBS) weren’t experimental.</p>

<p>My experimental was math. I’m pretty two of the questions that were on it were these:</p>

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<li>What is the perimeter of a triangle with sides a,b, and c if:</li>
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<p>2(a+b) + c = 38
2(a+c) + b = 40
2(b+c) + a = 42</p>

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<li>What is the number of combinations of a 3-digit number that is less than 600 that can be made from the numbers 3,5,7, and 9?</li>
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<p>My experimental was also math and it had a question about kids bringing something to school and it had a chart with 0 kids bringing 3 items, 1 kid bringing like 4 items etc. The question was how many items could 4 kids bring so that the total mean was greater than the median number. Did anybody get a question like this because im sure it was like number 17 in the experimental math.</p>

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<p>Both of those were problems from experimental section.</p>

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<p>No, I remember the PBS ones, too–those were about whether the government should fund them or not or something–but this one was different. It talked about how TV doesn’t stimulate our minds and how shows should be more like Mr. Roger’s neighborhood.</p>

<p>Ok i’m absolutely sure i had the reading experimental because i had 4 CR sections, 3 math sections, and 2 writing sections. Can anyone clarify which CR section was experimental? because i had the movie critic passage, Trojan war, jump rope, and the rewilding.</p>