<p>I'm taking the sat literature test tomorrow and I'm sooo nervous. I have been getting in the 600s on the Barrons practice tests but I've heard those are harder than the real test. I can't study much more because I have a football game until 9 tonight (im in marching band) and i have a rule to always sleep well before the sat.I'm hoping to get at least a 700 on the real deal :c</p>
<p>Just looking for people to share the pain haha</p>
<p>I just finished - how do you think it went?</p>
<p>@LAMuniv I thought it was a lot more time pressured than practice tests I took. I took five practice tests from the Barron’s book easily finished those while I struggled to complete the real test today.</p>
<p>What do you think?</p>
<p>Yeah, I felt a bit pressed for time (I hadn’t done any practice tests, so I wasn’t really sure what to expect). It was a lot easier than I was expecting and I understood everything, but the “choose the MOST correct answer” always trips me up on the practice questions (like, I’d choose the second most correct or something…) </p>
<p>Thank god that’s over </p>
<p>Yea I know what you mean. Like the question (about the short poem that talks about change in nature and how that affects the author’s personality ideology towards change) that asked something along the lines of “what best summarizes the author’s view in this poem”, it seemed that both “he understanding past changes and dreads future changes” and “accepts the natural process and searches for another truth”. There always seems like the could be a couple acceptable answers.</p>
<p>Erm I think I chose the the appreciate one for that </p>
<p>Does anyone know how many you can miss/omit to get anywhere from a 700-800?</p>
<p>I felt like that went much better than the Barrons tests. I was surprised by the time periods of the passages on it. The Barrons seemed to have all passages from the 1400s-1800s with only a few from the 1900s but the actual test seemed to have mostly 1800s-1900s. I didn’t find myself pressed for time at all but I’m usually very time efficient during testing. I finished with 15 minutes left to look over my answers. </p>
<p>I thought the last poem (the one in 1850) was kinda weird…</p>
<p>@lipatti16
Did you choose something about the mystical nature of the physical world?</p>
<p>The “roaring street” was referring to the signs of human industralization in the 1800s?</p>
<p>Also the author said something like “in my spirit blah blah my dream is my dream” did you choose something like “while he is still alive and able to comunicate”?</p>
<p>Tbh that’s a little obnoxious lipatti</p>
<p>Sorry I didn’t mean to be obnoxious! 
I totally understand the timing pressure. And jarjarbinks I’m not sure if we’re allowed to talk about the specifics of our answers, but I interpreted it differently, except I did understand the roaring streets to be representative of urban progress and stuff. </p>
<p>@Jarjarbinks23 I thought that one with adieu was about “even as I acknowledge that I cant control” or whatever, just because he looks back on the constantly changing world and bids the past farewell because he has to move on.</p>
<p>@lipatti16 well we’re not allowed to according to the rule, but nobody really cares. Go look at te October 2014 SAT thread… EVERYBODY is talking about the specific answers and questions</p>
<p>What did you guys put for that question on the meditiation on a broom that asked what the “reasoned vegetable” is. I put human but I was between that and the tree with leaves. I didnt know which one they wanted: the metaphor or the actual</p>
<p>I loved the Prosody 101 poem… and I read the Indian married life one like six times and interpreted it a different way each time, haha</p>
<p>@LAMuniv Well it’s a subjective test after all. </p>
<p>Oh yeah thatr Prosody Poem… who thinks about poetry when you’re reuniting with your loved one? XD</p>
<p>For prosody 101 what did you get for the roman numeral question for what she’s remonded of because of the garden? I put all three </p>
<p>All 3 here too</p>
<p>Jarjarnlinks I had that down initially but I changed it to the one about the earth changing </p>