Official Sat I Discussion January 2005

<p>ok, this is bad, i think i got it wrong. Was that on the section with the honeybees/930 problem?</p>

<p>Yes... that question is experimental.</p>

<p>Don't fret too much :)</p>

<p>yes! i can still get a 1600!!!</p>

<p>That was experimental?? SWEET! So far, that's the only one I know I've missed on the math. :D</p>

<p>I finished all the math sections with one answer check in half the times allotted. I hope I didn't make any stupid mistakes X_x</p>

<p>Hmm. Ok, made up a diagram.</p>

<p>I hope HTML works. <a href="http://dmitriy.snerdia.com/media/explan.gif"&gt;Clicky&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Since we know that when we run our cutting plane through two midpoints, we get equal areas, we can use that and the principles of triangles to explainify this. From the diagram, the five-sided shape WACDZ and the triangle ABC, when added together, yield half of the square. NOw, since triangle ABC and triangle CDE are equal in area, (c is the center, so distance to sides is =, and all angles are equal (parallellness of sides of square)), we see that WACDZ + CDE = half a square, as does XBCEY + ABC. WACDZ+CDE and XBCEY+ABC are our two quardilaterals that result from placing a pencl through the center of a square. </p>

<p>I hope that was more intelligible</p>

<p>:( i know i got 1 wrong on the last 10 section part.</p>

<p>I missed the cube question on the last 10 part. It was 8 instead of 4. dumb dumb dumb mistake :(</p>

<p>And I missed a grid-in... numbers divided by 20 with remainder of 2.
I put 3, but someone said its 4. I guess I rushed </p>

<p>But if I get higher than a 700, I'll be happy.</p>

<p>when you say -5 -3 etc does this mean number of incorrect, or the net loss of points after you count the ones not answered and the 1/4 penalty?</p>

<p>ok what was the answer to hypothesis: proof</p>

<p>lol, i guess i was really lucky. It worked perfectly on the native american test (the one with unctuous:earnestness).</p>

<p>For me the 1996 tests were actually easier. On one of them I think I missed 2 on Verbal, which is two fewer than the 800 cutoff.</p>

<p>efs424, it's your score with the guessing penalty.</p>

<p>curve from May 1996 for verbal
800 800 800 800 800 800 780 770 750 740</p>

<p>curve from November 1996 for verbal
800 800 800 800 800 800 790 770 760 740</p>

<p>Jan 1997
800 800 800 800</p>

<p>can someone say scrumptious?</p>

<p>WOW
those curves defintely don't exist anymore</p>

<p>guys didn't the skater represent Venus??
I thought that was an easy one too, I'm probably wrong though :(</p>

<p>Got the same on the others.</p>

<p>the "ANOTHER SKATER" was the rocket flight 10 thing. thats the one thats being swung around.</p>

<p>Who was the person who was "offering" the guy to write those biographies? like what did he do and what was his position.</p>

<p>I got a ton of E's. The math wasn't too easy I thought. I struggled in the experimental section..I don't think I finished.</p>

<p>but, when you say "ton", are you talking about 6 E's in a row, like I had in the beginning of S2?</p>

<p>because that was strange.</p>

<p>The whole Venus skater person thing was a test of how much you pay attention to wording. I screwed it up on my initial run-through, but then read into the details, and fixed it. The correct answer is the Mariner 10, becaues in the story, it's referred to as one stationary skater (Venus) grabbing a hold of and swinging another skater around himself. The question asked the identity of the other skater, which in this case was the Mariner 10 probe.</p>

<p>no i think it was like 3 E's I remember looking at it and going, "meh" and moving on. I was exaggherating. But who knows, I might have fluked.</p>

<p>go to <a href="http://www.testmasters.com/vocablist.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.testmasters.com/vocablist.pdf&lt;/a> --> the correct answer for all sc and analogy will be on this list no matter which version you took</p>

<p>99% accuracy quoted from Test Master</p>

<p>I thought the curve was decided beforehand and has nothing to do with what everyone did this time. Because remember? Last time in October, my brother got his scores looongg after everyone else's came out. His test wasn't even graded until almost everyone elses' scores were out. And he got a 1600. So I'm pretty sure the curve is predetermined.</p>