i skipped the last vert last one on the last section. other than that i answered all. how’d everyone do on sentence completions?
@ALibertarian I initially thought figurative, but the animal was “sniffing” I believe, but in an unconventional manner. So, I (grudgingly) picked the application of a technical term, because it seemed best to describe the type of “scent-detection” the passage was alluding too.
what was the answer for the tiger or lions? it was a sentence completion question.
is the answer melodramatic or hyperbole. still can’t figure that one out… what y’all get?
how did you guys do the math problem when they gave you a quadratic formula and had to find a possible vaule for a when x=2
@mnallamalli97 Was the tiger or lions one an either/or one? If so, I circled “and” because it said Either/and instead of Either/or.
I think it was hyperbole. The device used was a simile (which, yes, is a kind of metaphor, but it’s more accurate than metaphor. plus hyperbole feels more accurate than melodramatic)
did anyone get 8000 for one of the free response math questions? forgot which lol. also the answer to the radius of the sphere is 10 right
@dijsihi lol that was the one question I didn’t answer on the whole test… BUT yeah someone please answer!!
@y0l0lsen Yes & yes.
Did anyone find the full Jane Austen text?
@dijsihi @FireBallsDJ it was a process of elimination question. if 5 was the only minimum, then the graph must have been an upwards facing parabola. thus a must be greater than 0. A was the only choice that was not negative or zero.
@16elir i thought you had to use calculus and i made it way to complicated because it said minimum
@16elir omg.
What was the answer for the grammar question that began with something like “By washing…” and talked about car wheels?
Their discussion of the 20/25 minute thing is really interesting. Basically, this is what I gleaned:
*Because of the error, the test is no longer considered “standardized” because some students had a significant advantage over others
*It is highly likely they will address this issue in some manner
*Because of the complexity of their grading algorithms and other factors, they can’t grade the people who did/didn’t get an extra 5 minutes on two curves
*It would be too costly and highly unlikely for them to cancel all of the tests
I’m very interested in how this will develop.
I saw someone on Twitter say that they’re room persuaded the proctor to give them an extra 5 minutes on the second section of the 20 minute sections (I’m assuming because they took advantage of their section 8 being 25 minutes long instead of 20 because of a mistake their proctor made). This whole thing is terrible.
What if they made everyone retake just sections 8 and 9 instead?
Because there are proctors who made a room do 20/20, 20/25, or even 25/25.
Has something like this ever happened before?
@Chrysanthemum14 Agreed; this is an egregious error. Everyone in this thread has been discussing answers but I think we should also be discussing what will happen to us/our scores.
@aznboi4981 No, AFAIK they have never made an error like this before. There is no precedent to follow.
@Chrysanthemum14 I’m not sure if they’d do that because taking sections 8/9 alone will provide a benefit since you won’t have the mental exhaustion from the rest of the test weighing on you. But it is a curve, after all, so we’ll see.
Would it be possible for CollegeBoard to notify each location and have each proctor report how the situation was handled? Then those who were given 25 minutes have scores cancelled or retake sections 8 and 9…