<p>So, How'd it go?</p>
<p>It took me a lot longer than practice tests and a lot of the passages seemed really dense. I skipped 5 (all relating to the 2nd passage) and answered the rest. I'm hoping for 700+. I took 2 practice tests, one was a 720 and one a 590, so I don't know *** to expect.</p>
<p>Anyone else?</p>
<p>agreed...i thought alot harder/more time consuming than the practice tests...i got 660 on prac test but am hoping to break 600 on this, i found the passages particularly tough. whatever, whats done is done</p>
<p>i didn't find it easy.. but it was not as bad as i expected. similiar to the princeton review practice tests, i thought, although i was short on time. i didn't skip any but probably should've skipped a couple.</p>
<p>are we allowed to talk about the questions now, or are the west coasters still taking it?</p>
<p>in any case, here's an AIM chatroom: sat2lit</p>
<p>I found the first poem ("Speaking to her unborn child" or something) really confusing.</p>
<p>... and the rest...</p>
<p>i cant even gauge how i did</p>
<p>Retake in Nov. for me. I thought it was harder than the Barron's and PR. The passages were longer, more time consuming, and overall more difficult to interpret (poetry).</p>
<p>yeah, the only two i found easy were the prose passage about the little boy and the "darkness" and the play piece.</p>
<p>I also understood the more modern poem too (about that guy who got alcohol on his hand), as well as the play,. The little boy.. humm I wasn't too sure about it but it was a heck lot easier to understand than the first poem. And what abou t Charlotte and that other guy?? Man @_@</p>
<p>I didn't think it was that bad, and I didn't leave any blank. I am not sure if I should have though. I liked the passage about South Africa. Anyone have any guesses on the curve?</p>
<p>does anyone remember the name of the first poem?</p>
<p>if it really was called "speaking to her unborn child", i might have made a large mistake, because there was a question that asked "who is she addressing", and i said her husband</p>
<p>and that was important in a bunch of other questions too, so that might have completely screwed me up</p>
<p>I was really confused regarding the whole "unborn child/husband" thing (first poem)</p>
<p>I understood the "Before the Birth of Her Child One", the one about the boy and the darkness, the excerpt from the play. </p>
<p>The poem about the woman that deserves all this praise I only understood in part. </p>
<p>The passage about Arthur and Catherine I can't really guage. Parts made sense and other parts didn't. All the questions for that one I didn't know the answer to, I looked at the other answers to put together a cohesive picture. Don't know if it will work for me or against me.</p>
<p>I think I left five blank. </p>
<p>This was a retake. The first time I got a 670. This time all I want is 700+. I have a slightly better vibe for this test, but I won't know until I have the scores. My practice tests didn't help as they were all over the place.</p>
<p>chatroom, guys? aim:gochat?roomname=sat2lit</p>
<p>oh no, the Charles passage...he got alcohol on his hand? how were we supposed to know? i was confused what exactly happened. was it fire/flames, alcohol, or blood...
i should've skipped more on that one.</p>
<p>his hand was on fire because his cup full of flaming booze shattered.</p>
<p>Charles got alcohol on his hand, thats what I said. </p>
<p>He was flesh again => he was pale, now his colors back</p>
<p>I wasn't planning on taking sat lit because I bought the Barrons book, looked over a passage and I thought it was really hard..but today I just decided to take it and I thought it was a LOT easier than the Barrons book. I did better on it than bio and USH, and I actually studied for those.... but the Charles passage was so confusing.. My understanding was that he lit the alcohol and then it burned his hands? All the other passages were pretty easy, I think easier than Critical Reading.</p>
<p>i don't remember what i put. i think i put that his hand was bleeding since the vessel shattered and all...wouldn't that be broken glass? but then...there was alcohol on his hand. i think the alcohol one is the best answer. </p>
<p>how are you sure he was pale?</p>
<p>I selected the "he got alcohol on his hands" choice for the Charles passage</p>
<p>I put 'alcohol on hand' too.</p>
<p>For the 'flesh' one, I put that the writer briefly thought Charles looked ethereal.</p>
<p>i think i'll refresh my memory passage by passage...</p>
<p>1: Unborn child: basically, the woman is preparing for her death. she's writing the poem to her husband (it was such a gloomy poem good thing i left it until last)
"sentence" and "knot"=death & marriage?
what she most wants=for her husband to remember her virtues..something like that.
thy friend=speaker
gains=happier life
remains=children
chance=event of the speaker's death</p>
<p>I forgot the exact order of the passages.
2. Moses and Deborah and whomever: Livy has run off with men and the dad is infuriated.
"fortitude" question: i put courage and rashness
at the end, the dad resolves by: i didn't get this one. i think i put "human impulse blah blah forgiveness"
abrupt changes of mood/whatever characterize the passage
the mom: paralyzing grief? or what.</p>
<ol>
<li><p>The poet praises one lady who seems to be way better than the rest of women.
The other women:quickly forgotten? worth forgetting?
superfluous:she receives so much praise that it's become extra
roman numeral one: II, III, IV?
the last couplet: why is it there? i skipped it </p></li>
<li><p>Charlotte and Arthur (weird)
Charlotte: confident in her own opinions?
charlotte's replies: distancing herself from arthur?
arthur is nervous: agitated in charlotte's presence?
C & A: recent acquaintances?
the damp air/i like the air: arthur undercuts...?
view of arthur: amused?</p></li>
<li><p>The dancing play
Willie's exclamation in the beginning shows what? i skipped it.
i also put something about foible/politics
telephone ring: stop the ideal/dramatic thing going on?
tone in lines 45-70 (something like that): simple and blunt? no clue...</p></li>
<li><p>Stupid Charles on Flame
I guess it is alcohol on his hand.
oh what is the speaker's view? i skipped it.
and is appearance about all people's outward looks?</p></li>
</ol>
<p>did i forget any passages...</p>