<p>i just memorized only the testmasters and can safely say i got all the analogies and scs right.</p>
<p>sometimes they don't use hard words, but uncommon phrases or definitions. for the analogies, we can all agree that futile:effort are NOT hard words, but understanding the relationship between the two can throw off a lot of people. Similarly, disperse sounds more fitting in this context</p>
<p>it only worked for one of the tests, the unctuous : earnestness one. for the other one it didnt work AT ALL</p>
<p>yes in your opinion it sounded more fitting, not mine. take a look at the 10 real SAT's. find one #10 SC one blank question with an common easy word answer. i couldnt find even one. of course, this alone isnt a good basis for marshal being the answer, but in the context of the sentence disperse didnt sound fitting to me at all and struck me as the word thats supposed to jump out at you to throw you off. jmho</p>
<p>thank YOU collegehopeful!!</p>
<p>I've ordered Q&A. I'll post the answers when I get them.</p>
<p>for SC, did anyone remember there was a question (number 2 i think) about a person being __________ while firing others, who felt ___________</p>
<p>was the answer you chose : Stoicism, Gibe OR Charming, compliment</p>
<p>i still think it should be stoicism... why would people consider getting fired a compliment.... maybe i thought since you cant tell what the guy is really mad or just joking around since he is so stoic... i dont know.. what did others put?</p>
<p>See topic.</p>
<p>I did the charming one.</p>
<p>i don't think i've ever seen one. only 1 out of all my SATs had that generous a curve, and this doesn't look like the one that would have that kinda curve. i'm guessing the curve will be 800 800 800 780 770 750 ...</p>
<p>dmitriyr, was this ur first time? what did u get b4? if you got high, then i guess you are right.... ill use your answer as the key then.</p>
<p>Looking back at the 1996 tests they were all -5 = 800. Now it's down to -3 or -2. The ETS' claim that the SAT isn't getting harder = utter BS.</p>
<p>i know seriously, just look at the 10 reals and u'll see a pattern</p>
<p>I confirm that I had this version, more or less.</p>
<p>"It's not Sanctimonious: Religion , it's Sanctimonious: Piousness</p>
<p>There's actually a major difference between the two..."</p>
<p>Sweet! I stared at that question for about 4 minutes, then put that down as a guess.</p>
<p>The math was quite easy. The only question I had trouble with was the one in the experimental section (i think) that asked to pick a set of resultant sums of cards, from cards with values of 5, 10, 15, 25, given that there was more than two of every one of those types of cards. That question just confused me. Words not making sense! Brain pain!</p>
<p>I put E. Anyone else?</p>
<p>Ok, for the first verbal section, (Section 2), did anyone else get a very strange sequence of answers? The first six, starting off with the charming fired complement guy, I got all E's. It looked quite strange there, sitting like that, but I could not raise any sense of doubt in myself even after reading the questions and al the answers over several times. </p>
<p>Also, I would like to conclude that beeping calculators are $#&% annoying, and lenient proctors who say "Can you turn off the beeping? No? Well, that's ok then. Carry on" are, as well. I still don't understand the purpose behind making a calculator beep loudly and shrilly. </p>
<p>Dmitriy</p>
<p>(btw, i'm new here, but I've been following CCF for a bit. Hey guys)</p>
<p>"I put E. Anyone else?"</p>
<p>I got E also. I'm pretty sure that's right.</p>
<p>"Ok, for the first verbal section, (Section 2), did anyone else get a very strange sequence of answers? The first six, starting off with the charming fired complement guy, I got all E's."</p>
<p>I was getting a whole bunch of E's in that first section sc part too. I wasn't too worried though since I was pretty sure about my answers.</p>
<p>"wait, why was it to infinity? I thought it was four since the only way for the planes to cut the base in half was diagonally, horizontally and vertically..."</p>
<p>Ok, take a floppy disk(or anything square-ish). Take a pencil. Observe that any way you put the pencil on the floppy, given that the pencil intersects the center of the floppy, the two areas are equal. Since the square pyramid can be imagined as a large amount (> o-o)of stacked squares getting progressively smaller, the puramid can be cut o-o ways to produce equal volumes, as long as the cut goes through the vertex of the pyramid and the center of the square.</p>
<p>ya seriously, and those 1996 tests are the same difficulty</p>
<p>i just tested that out on paper and i got 2 different areas for the two sections of the square.</p>
<p>hmmm, could someone else check this also?</p>
<p>The one where it had to be have the vertex of x, had to be perpendicular to the square base, and cut in half. And it asked how many planes. I thought 4 but now some are saying it was E (8 or more).</p>
<p>it is 8 or more but i think that was experimental</p>