---Official May 3rd Sat Thread---

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<p>I'm not familiar with precisely how the SAT is curved, but here is my own interpretation of the difficulties:</p>

<p>Math: Easy, possibly one or two tricky questions. I believe I had experimental grid-in (had two of those). If I missed any it was because I made a simple calculation error or mis-read the question.</p>

<p>Reading: Eh... I'm not sure, these seem like a pot-shoot, and at times it seems like the answers are very, very debatable. That said I perform amazing on this segment of the test, so yeah, I have no clue what I'd call this one.</p>

<p>Writing: Resounding "eh". Most of it was easy, but that's what I would have said last time and I did slightly poor. :/</p>

<p>There was one question in which it asked about someone's comic books and how they were viewed as classics. The original had passive voice, the alternative was something like "people view ...". Did people stay with the original or choose the other correct alternative which added an extra subject (people)?</p>

<p>There was a question about tides pulling slowing down the Earth.. that one confused me and I had frankly no clue what to put, I believe I narrowed it down to three and finally two and basically took a guess.</p>

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<p>i got innovative for the reason why the circus succeeded because it talked about how the circus was not like a regular circus...blaah blaah blah</p>

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<p>EliCash91</p>

<p>do you think we are wrong? :(</p>

<p>It still seems to me that the whole point of the passage was the author's compliment on the guy's innovativeness, which led to his success.</p>

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<p>"in the may passage it says they STEADILY IGNORED the snakes.This corresponds with delibrately ignoring the snakes.no?" - Indeed, they did not care that the snakes / bugs were there, as opposed to what one would assume they would do (which is to scream or run). Was there a choice in which they ignored them? I remember being very certain it was "the bugs/snakes did not phase them"... perhaps that was what you put and you merely are remembering the wording wrong?</p>

<p>"satirical is more sarcastic than mocking what was the first word in front of genre" - True, I would say that a satire is a form of writing that uses sarcasm to mock its subject.</p>

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<p>they ignored the fact tht the snakes were there. they did not get out of the way of the snakes, but did not care that they were playing among the snakes</p>

<p>the snakes did not faze? her...faze means bother</p>

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<p>and denizen is more of an inhabitant than a type</p>

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<p>did you get fanciful for fantastic</p>

<p>i did't know what faze meant dammit!</p>

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<p>yes it was fanciful</p>

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<p>for 2nd problem the circus short passage,</p>

<p>does anyone remember what the answer choice (d) (if I remember right) said?</p>

<p>I thought answer choice (d) talked about how the guy (who ran the circus) had progressive and innovative impulses and I chose that answer</p>

<p>I realized that everyone chose either the "financial" or the "adults" choice.</p>

<p>Am I the only one?</p>

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<p>the snake problem said</p>

<p>"the girls were unfazed by the encounter with the rattlesnake"</p>

<p>I chose that.</p>

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<p>yeah i put fanciful. luckily i picked that bc I was also looking at eccentric too but i realized it didnt really fit.</p>

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<p>so wats the deal with the satire one?</p>

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<p>in the may passage did you put independent?</p>

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<p>what was the word before genre anyone remember?</p>

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<p>"the snakes did not faze? her...faze means bother" - Indeed. The snakes did not bother her. Here, faze does not indicate the snakes themselves did not "do the fazing", it says she is not bothered by the snakes. Which is what I chose.</p>

<p>That answer choice is so close to the ignored one that has been put forth here, that I think it likely that choice is being misremembered. Either the choice was not "the girls ignored the snakes" or it is simply being confused with the 'fazed' choice, and the two are the same.</p>

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<p>where was the genre question?</p>

<p>did you get 4 root 3</p>

<p>did you put 30%
25%?
36?</p>

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<p>lol i mean phase (:</p>

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<p>here are all my answers...</p>

<p>i missed the circus one, the fancicul one (i put superb) and the stupid axis reflection one ( i forgot about the y axis so i put 4)</p>

<p>• 4 babies in june
• Venerated= respect
• Sublime = vast ocean
• 6 italians
• self condifent and autonomous.
• less evenhanded
• the stylistic device - analogy
• mays question – I put “pursuits” as activities
• I deleted the sentence about email from passage
• 2nd passage more evenhanded
• self-aggrandizing and confident?
• I got B=1/2. for the y-intercept one
• for the play question i put satirical and denizens
• it was like x=9a
and y=9a^2+1
y= x^2+1
• evlolution of a butterfly was clinical
• the cube one was 27V
• "the speaker said she would be focusing on broader, global issues instead of debatable issues"
• the word "display" or something most nearly meant bore right?
• i put an immensee expansive open sea = sublime
• fortuitous (which means fortunate) that they stopped 400 before the ice
• paucity for the crater one
• for the passage about the miniseries, it was a funny way of getting point accros (about the airport with the airport and no beach)
• and also miniseries it was an analogy
• it was inspire wonder<br>
• you flip the graph over the y axis and has the same amount of intercepts right?
• May passage the point of view was from an adult reflecting on her childhood
• anyone else get 12.5 for that math question with 1/x = .08
• girl can’t have 5 pairs of jeans because it was the only choice that couldnt divide into 24
• mays girls didn’t avoid snakes they just didnt phase them
* also about the rattle snake it was that they bore it on the flag right??</p>

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<p>tell me how i did.. hahaha</p>

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<p>gash: yes yes yes yes :)</p>