Official Sat I Discussion January 2005

<p>so was the pyramid bisection question in the first section or 4th?</p>

<p>khalid, that depends. I can tell you that the pyramid bisection is NOT experimental though.</p>

<p>ok, that's bad.</p>

<p>i dont think that is right collegiated. my test wasnt any of those formats. you must be mistaken thats not for the january test. besides if everyone else is saying the bee question was experimental then how could it not be?</p>

<p>i know the website says scores will only be available on feb 4th, but some kid at school said his were posted within two days of the test. Is this possible? I wish it were in my case :)</p>

<p>haha definitely not possible...unless he canceled the test two days later and therefore got a 0 ha he has to wait just like everyone else until feb</p>

<p>thats true, my format wasnt on there...it wasnt mistitled, it was the december version</p>

<p>11 days............</p>

<p>yeah man, you and i got it right, because first of all you can't have infinty planes cutting a 3D shape (atleast not with the restrictions you had) and hence the answer was between 4 and 8. And the 8 was there to throw people off if they thought about the 8 different sides, but a plan goes all the way through so its the 2 diagnols and two horizontal planes that cut the pyramid. BAM = 4. but sadly, no one should care about this, because this was the EXP. section accoridng to princeton review.</p>

<p>adios.</p>

<p>Hello everyone. This is my first post here. I had math, verbal, math, math, verbal, verbal, math. Do we already know which section was experimental or not?</p>

<p>I thought I was lucky because the passages fit me very well. Only one was a literary one (the native American writer one). The others I could understand easily. The science one (the woman from JPL) I thought was easy. The two passage one involves critique on captalism from a socialist standpoint and its counterpoint, I thought I did well on that one since I know a lot about that standpoint. The last one was a epistomological discourse from a historian's perspective. This is the field I am most interested in and I actually knew who George Berkeley was.</p>

<p>Were these passages what everyone got or are there actually variations in these? Anyone remember other verbal questions? Thanks.</p>

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The last one was a epistomological discourse from a historian's perspective. This is the field I am most interested in and I actually knew who George Berkeley was.

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<p>I would not necessarily refer to it as "epistemological discourse." It was more like phenomenology, and the reference to Berkeley was shameful since he was an idealist.</p>

<p>Edit: And Berkeley was not a Transcendental Idealist, he was the bad kind of idealist:D.</p>

<p>Alright. I had M, V, M, M, V, CR, M. Some of the critical reading in general were about Alice Walker and Maxine [forgot her last name--sorry], scientist named Alvarez... On math, there was a problem about two overlapping circles and the area of the shaded "squre region".... Which section was experimental??</p>

<p>I thought of Berkeley as a skeptic, being the predecessor to Hume.</p>

<p>Nice to have a discussion about this here, LOL. Do you remember any questions from that passage?</p>

<p>About cutting the cube into smaller cubes question, the answer is 8. You are supposed to cube 2, not square it. I saw this discussion in previous pages.</p>

<p>Though Berkeley is a predecessor of Hume, he did succeed Locke and extended Lockean epistemology to its "logical conclusion," however, he did everything but that. He is an idealist because of the phrase "esse est percipe (to be is to be percieved)," which entails that the world is immaterial. This is where he argues his way into phenomenology because different modalities of reality arise that are later clarified/rejected/corrected by the German Idealists viz. Fichte, Schelling, and Hagel.</p>

<p>Interesting. I did not know that much about Berkeley and Locke so I'll just remember what you said. Onto the questions, then.
What was that question for which "compulsive" was the answer? I think I chose so.
Also, for the pyramid with dividing planes, I think the answer was "more than 8".</p>

<p>Compulsive was the answer in regard to the question on the scientist repeatedly checking for changes prematurely.</p>

<p>Ah yes, that's what I put down too. I guess there's a lot of agreement over the answers. I also have fragile;broken for palpable;perceive, and sanctimonious;piousness for unctuous;earnestness. Any other ones that you can remember? There's the one with prune;branches. I thought for that one there were three answers that fit.
Since I found the CR to be easy, and I think I got the above analogies correct, with some luck I just might do well in the Verbal.</p>

<p>For Prune:Branches, the answer was Clip:Fingernails. You are correct in the rest of your analogies.</p>

<p>a few questions..</p>

<ol>
<li>was the suffuse:light analogy question on the native american test?</li>
<li>anyone remember the last question to the first CR on the native american test? (one about the native american author) I think I put A or B as the answer..</li>
<li>What score do you think you would get with 4 wrong on verbal? and do all colleges consider the highest combined score?</li>
<li>Was the "traitor" question a D or E answer?
thanks... apology for my ignorance..</li>
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<p>You can sign in on collegeboard.com and click the link "Flash back to your Jan 22 test : Which section didn't count?". It links to the page I gave you so i'm not sure if it's mistitled or collegeboard links to the wrong page.</p>