<p>I'm pretty sure that it was I & III, too. (:</p>
<p>I + III.<br>
give an arm and a leg.
on second thought all of them.</p>
<p>It's I and III.</p>
<p>GODOT, have you heard from CB about the angle bisector question yet?</p>
<p>Not yet, unfortunately. I doubt that they will get back to me before this Wednesday. If the question is indeed defective, they will almost certainly want to assemble a group of their test experts to confirm this first before they respond to my challenge. I'm actually thinking about challenging the "benign monster" question as well, even though I know I am almost alone in my judgment that the answer is ambiguous.</p>
<p>I think you should challenge the question on one of the reading passages where you had to find a term that was basically a synonym to "ambition." Drive & ambition. The answer was vitality, but I vacillated on my answer there and ended up erasing and going for 'momentum.' Stupid choice, but I don't think any of them fit. :(</p>
<p>Hmph.</p>
<p>Avantgarden,</p>
<p>That one took me a while to answer as well, since I didn't think that "vitality" was the <em>perfect</em> definition (and most, if not all, of the vocab-in-context questions I have seen on official SATs give perfect definitions). I would not have defined "drive" in that context as "vitality." I would have written something closer to "longing to succeed." Eventually, I did have to choose "vitality" because none of the other choices really made sense.</p>
<p>For some reason, the Passage-Based Reading questions on this exam seem to have been especially poorly written. For example, the choice between "informative" and "argumentative" on the yawning passage was especially close, the "benign monster" question was just bad (to me), and the correct answer to this vocab-in-context question isn't perfect. Three questions out of 48 may not seem like much, but I would expect that every question on the SAT should be well-written and have a clearly defensible correct answer and four distinctly wrong answer choices (especially because ETS and CB claim that each question takes about two years from the first draft to its first appearance on an administered scored section). Maybe I feel this way just because this is the first time I have taken an official SAT in a long time, but I don't think so.</p>
<p>Of course, let's not forget the appalling angle bisectors question on the Math section. Overall, a terribly written SAT.</p>
<p>I completely agree that the Benign Monster one was stupidly ambiguous, but I'm not fussing over that one because, according to talk around here, I did get the 'correct' answer, haha.</p>
<p>Wait, the BOE angle fill-in one? Is that the math one that you're referring to? It took me almost forever to mess with, but I ended up with 90 degrees. It was tough, but what did you find bad about it? Please tell me the answer WAS 90 degrees.</p>
<p>Oh, and another thing -- will the College Board score more leniently if it feels that the test was, indeed, poorly written? Is there any chance of them being convinced that they should have mercy on students when it comes to particular questions/sections?</p>
<p>avantgarden,</p>
<p>The answer to the angle bisectors question was indeed 90. (That is what I put, too.) However, I read the question fully on the exam about 3 or 4 times, and each time, the very last piece of information in the question, about the third angle bisector, seemed to contradict the two previous pieces of information. I really think this question is internally inconsistent. For a full discussion, go to: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=340782%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=340782</a>.</p>
<p>The only question that I am certain (assuming that the majority of CCers is correct) that I missed so far on the May 5 exam is the "benign monster" question, and I don't think my answer was entirely wrong. You can trust that CB and ETS will hear from me about that question. :mad:</p>
<p>the 11 integers question. 11 zeroes cannot be postive. 0 is neither negetive nor positive. so the answer is one. i am 108.8% sure and if i am wrong, i 'll give you a million dollars.</p>
<p>angle bisector is 90 degrees. </p>
<p>the roman num: 1 and 3. </p>
<p>given: f(x+y) = f(x) +f(y)
x=y</p>
<p>thus the variables dont matter cuz they are equal</p>
<p>f(a) + f(a) = f(2a) = f(a+a) <--from the given
f(a+b) = 2(f(a)) = f(a) + f(a)
because f(a+b) = f(a+a)</p>
<p>the boldened edge one was 100.</p>
<p>drnoeyedea,</p>
<p>The answer to the 11 integers question is indeed "one," but your reasoning is wrong and makes no sense. The reason it's "one" is that the question specifies 11 <em>different</em> integers. Otherwise, one <em>could</em> have 11 zeroes (hence, no positive integers) to give a sum of 0.</p>
<p>idk y but i thought it said different consecutive or even amount of positive and negative integers so i put 5. ugh.....Hopefully -1 math is 800, maybe even -2 lol</p>
<p>lmfao i like how thers like ten threads for the math.
i thought the reading was somewhat harder and the math somewhat easier except select questions...</p>
<p>The Venn diagram one was ambiguous... you could see the 5 belonging to A and B as counting the 2 that all three, A B and C, shared.</p>
<p>um...for that pentagon problem...with the ratios of the arcs....was the answer 2:3 or 3:2 ? anyone remember? thanks!</p>
<p>i got 2:3
and for the venn, i got 7</p>
<p>2:3 for the arc becuase one arc spanned 2 points on the pentagon and one spanned 3</p>
<p>the venn i got 7 also</p>
<p>kool thanks!</p>
<p>I still thought it was 5 because I thought it included the 2 that belonged to all three... because if it belonged to all three, then A and B share them, B and C share them, and A and C share them, so they'll be counted in those pairs...</p>
<p>i got 5 as well</p>