October 2011 SAT General Discussion

<p>Skateboarding was NOT experimental.</p>

<p>@Sharon
Look at the Writing thread - based on what someone said, the real one could be skateboarding, but my friend said the opposite.</p>

<p>anybody get vehement for an answer?</p>

<p>skate boarding was real, i only got 3 CR and got skateboarding one.</p>

<p>I am still curious why Moreover was right in the writing section (question was somewhere in #30-35)</p>

<p>Confirming skateboarding as real</p>

<p>so does -4 mean missed 4 questions for the curve</p>

<p>MOREOVER IS RIGHT.
none of the other choices even had a chance of fitting.</p>

<p>4 wrong translates into 5 off for the curve because of the penalty for guessing</p>

<p>At classicgirl, could u at least explain why?</p>

<p>what was the answer for the cylinder one? were you suppose to 2 x pie x r x h?</p>

<p>no, -4 on a curve
means 3 wrong.
so, if there were 54 total questions,
3 wrong = 51 - 3(0.25) = 50.25 = rounds to 50.</p>

<p>Anybody wanna start predicting?
-4 CR
-2 math
-1 writing with 11 essay
I’ll predict back.</p>

<p>what i mean is if the curve says -4=720. If i missed four questions do i get a 720?</p>

<p>borunks: it was the start of a new paragraph, and it had no connection to the last paragraph. it just fit… better than the rest of the choices.
it wasn’t “in comparison to” - nothing was being compared.
it was introducing a NEW TOPIC.
moreover, there is a reason for including skateboard disregarding its history blah blah blah</p>

<p>what was the surface area of the cone with height 20 and diameter 8?</p>

<p>i had the cone filtration one. in that section, there was a problem regarding a circle and it was split by 2 lines and one of the arc it produced was 160 degrees. and you had to find the length of arc abc. and i’m pretty sure the question with the 5 + x + y + z and you had to find x +y + z 's mean was # 3 in that section too. There was also a really long word problem right before the cone filtration…all experimental?</p>

<p>@scholar: i got 8pi times 20</p>

<p>For the sweatshirt and scarf probability question, I got 1/5…</p>

<p>First, you pick up any one sweatshirt – it doesn’t matter. Then your chance of grabbing a matching scarf is one in five => 1/5</p>

<p>Does that make sense? I’m not understanding why 1/25 would…</p>

<p>SWEATER AND SCARVES = 4/5
probability of picking right: 5/25
probably of picking wrong (this is what it was asking): 1- 5/25 = 20/25 = 4/5</p>