Official SAT Biology October Discussion

<p>I just did the SAT Bio, and found it considerably harder than the test in May. Any thoughts?</p>

<p>HAhaha I remember I failed the one in January, so I canceled. I didn't take it this time though. Were there a lot of obscure questions?</p>

<p>Wasn't bad, but then again I studied alot for it. The experiments were kind of weird, when can we officially start discussing?</p>

<p>There were too many graphs/experiments! I didn't really understand the DNA one. A lot of questions were really easy, but others I had no idea..</p>

<p>it was okay... probably because i studied a ton for it... but it was relatively hard. </p>

<p>on the bright side, there might be a great curve?</p>

<p>I didn't think it was bad... I took Molecular and thought that section was pretty easy.</p>

<p>Oh on the questions about the two different species of crabs what was diffrent about the two species locations</p>

<p>I remmember the answers werel ike distance from the tide, substrate material, size of burrow</p>

<p>wait for the epithelial/gut (i can't quite remember the question) cells, what were the mostly likely to have?</p>

<p>i put flagella?</p>

<p>i put substrate material for that one. hella guessed though</p>

<p>For the gut one..i put tight junctions because they form a barrier?</p>

<p>sgrhigh424: Tight junctions is right, I looked it up in my college text. I left that one blank though, thank god, because I was going to put flagella. </p>

<p>As for the crab one, I put substrate too. It was obviously that it was because they lived in different environments, but substrate material was a weird way of putting it.</p>

<p>What a nightmare. I got all the photosynthesis questions wrong... and the anterior pituitary gland and the muscle one was just plain weird. My barrons practice book didn't have any of those answers, and barrons usually has more than what's necessary! Anyone know what the mutation one was?</p>

<p>hormones from the pituitary are made in the hypothalamus.</p>

<p>the muscle one was weird too and i guessed wrong =(</p>

<p>what was the one with the true breeding plants?</p>

<p>Yet another one that I left blank, my first instinct was that they were recessive or something, but I didn't look that one up because I already got so many wrong. Hope the curve is super big...</p>

<p>There were two NAFC questions for me (I took the E test). NAFC=Not A F***Ing Clue, which I actuallly label certain questions on practice tests. They were the one about which something binds with something else during muscle contraction (How the HECK were we supposed to know the CHEMICALS?) and the epithelial one, because I completely forgot what epithelial meant. I got the true-breeding question right by blind-faith guessing (I actually had the opposite instinctive response to Raina's. I thought true-breeding would mean literally "always breeding true" and I was right. I'd NEVER heard the term before). Other than that, I thought it was ok, but I've never taken it before. Are the May ones easier?</p>

<p>calcium moves troponin I think...
So far I got 8 wrong for sure...
****,.</p>

<p>I think "****" sums up how most of today's SATers and Subject Testers are feeling right now.</p>

<p>what about that one with the plant bending towards the window?</p>

<p>More auxins accumulate on the shady side..so the the shady site elongates</p>

<p>lol... well said wolfbane</p>

<p>Er.. The plant auxin one was E right? Unless I had a concussion on that particular problem and totally skipped it. And I just looked up true-breeding. Wolfbane, we were both kinda right, haha. True-breeding means either FF or ff which means that when it self-pollinates, the offspring will always remain the same in both genotype and phenotype. Looking back, it was such a duh-question. I remember asking myself at least 10 times... okaaay, so there's such a thing as a false-breeding plant eh? And totally having this face : >____<</p>