<p>Oh, yeah, I did that, I guess I just got mixed up somewhere along the way. Oh well.</p>
<p>Throw some more questions out there.</p>
<p>Does any body remeber the last question on the grid in math section. It was something about average driving speed. Anywho, the answer was 26.6667. I'd never gotten an answer like that on an SAT before, and although i was pretty sure just putting 26.6 or 26.7 would suffice (since there are only 4 grid-in spaces), i decided to find out the fraction (80/3) just to be safe. But as i was converting it to a fraction, the proctor called time! And since i was sitting right in front of her, i couldn't take the extra 10 seconds to grid in the answer. I'm sooooo mad about that. If i had just entered in my original answer i could've gotten 20pts higher on the math section (assuming one wrong drops me from an 800 to a 780). Hopefully, the curve will allow me to get one wrong and still get an 800. I'm pretty sure i got everything else right. Unless i did something really stupid like find perimeter when asked for area.
Aaarg.</p>
<p>P.S. And to whoever asked why we get our scores so soon. Its because many kids depend on these results to make decisions about future SAT registrations, so they need the results prompltly. However, to accomodate this, ETS is foregoing the question and answer service (without refund!).</p>
<p>Flyin - I got 80/3 too, and you are allowed to just grid in as much of a repeating decimal as possible, I believe it highlights that in the directions. That sucks though. :/</p>
<p>Any other tricky questions? I need help to jog my memory. </p>
<p>List your sections too, so we can figure out what was experimental and what was not. It also might help with remembering answers.</p>
<p>I believe I had - </p>
<p>3 crit readings, 3 maths, 3 writings.</p>
<p>I had passages on luminescent fish, literary translation (contrasting opinions one), stereotypical asian americans, and a couple other short ones (observations of chimps I think, a couple others.)</p>
<p>For math, I had one grid-in part, and the two standard mult choice, so I'm pretty sure I had no exp. math.</p>
<p>For writing, I had one big 35 question section that I believe was experimental. I then had the standard 33 question or so section and the small 10 minute one.</p>
<p>Do you remember the problem? I remember I had one, but it was more towards the begining of the fill-ins. I also got a different answer so I am curious.</p>
<p>I wound up with an average of 20 mph for that problem. Apparently, the problem was either super-easy or I didn't know the necessary formula(s). The way the problem was worded, it was easy to assume that 20 mph was the average rate of travel because one rate was 10 mph, the second was 30 mph and both occurred over the same distance. Meh, whatever.</p>
<p>Does anyone remember the problem asking for the surface area of a cube? The original cube consisted of sides with an area of 1 ut (I don't remember the specific unit...probably inches) apiece and the second cube had each of the sides split into fourths. I didn't think that the surface area would change at all, but such was not an option, so I opted for the answer stating that the change would be 6 uts.</p>
<p>Apparently, I didn't do as well in the math section as I had initially anticipated. Drat.</p>
<p>Thats what I got. 20mph.</p>
<p>Also for the surface area, I got 6 units too. Just calculate the difference and it is 6.</p>
<p>"hypernovae - what test were you originally given?"</p>
<p>I was given the Extended Time test. (Although I was supposed to receive the Standard test)</p>
<p>Same essay. Same questions. Same timing. No tenth section.</p>
<p>So what does it mean when your test doesn't have the last 10 minute section even though the rest of the test was exactly the same? That's right, you have to take the entire 4 hour test over again.</p>
<p>o crap, i think i got the odd/even question wrong. anyways, the oatmeal one, i had E but then i thought it's a hard question and the ETS rarely if never has E as a correct answer on a hard question, so i picked A. Then again, in last oct, a 13/15 question was supereasy too. o crap.
I also had a question about the food choice question. What did you guys put, i think it was like one of those I,II,III one and you had to put what must be correct. i think i put that it must be true that more than 50% of the people liked Italian food and some people gave more than one answer.
Also, there was one about two girls and comedy/mystery movies and what must be true given the statement above. I put that they do not go to see mystery movies together.
and on one of the gridins it was asking about i think what was the most number of machines that costed 1200 dollars they could have and still have the median cost be 1300. what did everyone else put for that one? i can't really remember but i think i put down 10.
Also, for the CR question about the wild monkies, there was a question about what would the author of passage one say to the experience to the author passage too and I picked D, which ws she would tell her to not rely on observations made in the wild. I'm really iffy on that one though.
and on the long passage about bioluminance, one of the questions asked about why it was 'odd' for the copolla(?) fish to do 'that'(not like luminant algea) and i put that it was because it really doesn't help them find food.</p>
<p>hypernovae that sucks! i hate incompetant proctors. mine yesterday cheated us out of a good 5 minutes.</p>
<p>For the mph question -</p>
<p>10 miles traveling 20mph, 10 miles traveling 40mph</p>
<p>that means - it took half an hour for the first 10 miles, and one quarter of an hour for the second 10 miles. Then you just divide 20 miles by 3/4 to find the overall average mph. That gives you 26.6 repeating, or 80/3.</p>
<p>Surface area of a cube difference was definitely 6.</p>
<p>dwerboy - I got the same as you for italian food thing I believe. Anyone remember the three choices specifically?</p>
<p>For mystery movies, I got the same as dwerboy, that they did not go see a mystery movie together.</p>
<p>That median one took a while and was quite annoying, and I can't remember what I finally got. I think 11?</p>
<p>Oh yeah! That question was really vague too (the CR monkey one). I think I ended up putting D too, but E also seemed to fit (that he shouldn't jump to conclusions without data or something).</p>
<p>For the fish "odd" one, I think I put that it's an unusual response by an animal to drop food or something to that effect? I was unsure of that one too.</p>
<p>One writing one that bothered me, one of the sentence changing ones, where it said something like...</p>
<p>Meteors are important to astrophysicists, ____________</p>
<p>I can't even remember what I put, but I thought that none of the answers were worded very well.</p>
<p>i had trouble on that one too, i put the third one, albeit relunctantly because it was in the passive voice but everything else sounded equally bad.</p>
<p>about the median one on the grid in, if it was 11, then that means it would have to be 11+11(4,7) and wouldn't that mean you would have to divide 1200+1300 by two and get 1250? i picked 10 because it said the median was 1300.</p>
<p>Wasn't it 4 and 8 though? If it was 4 and 7, you are right. I can't remember the exact question.</p>
<p>Yea, i'm pretty sure the 11 made the total mumber of choices odd. And the median would be the 12th number in increasing order, which was 1300.</p>
<p>For the oatmeal one i put not enough info.</p>
<p>For the cube surface area i put and an increase of 6 inches</p>
<p>For the movie one i put they can't see a mystery together (since one of them never sees mysteries)</p>
<p>I don't quite remember what the odd/even question was.Are you talking about the xy+xy^2 thing? If so, the answer was I + III (x had to be odd, and x+y had to be odd)</p>
<p>And for the average driving speed question i should have put down 26.6, but....life sucks.</p>
<p>The experimental was definatley one of the two 35 question grammer sections. There is normaly only one big grammer section. I hope the experimental was section 6 though, because that was the one i didn't finish. </p>
<p>And once again, i can't believe my horrible luck. (read my first post if you don't know what i'm talking about)
<em>bickers about the unfairness of life</em></p>
<p>Oh yea, forgot about the CR. I definatley don't remember that as well as the math, although i remember that i got thoroughly owned by section 9, only got to look at 14 or 15 out of the 19 questions. And the ones that i answered were very iffy. People tell me that section 9 (the long paired passages section) is always the hardest though.</p>
<p>I think i also put D for the CR monkey question. But i remeber debating between another answer that also seemed just as valid. I can see why the Princeton Review calls ETS the Evil Testing Satans.</p>
<p>Also, i forgot to mention this in the above post.
I got .414 for the circles in square problem. (Thats the same as the sqr. root of 2-1)</p>
<p>Did anybody else not finish like 5 sections (aka almost every CR and grammer section)? I think i'm just unusually slow.</p>
<p>This is regarding which section was the experimental:
I just checked the college board site and EVERY version of the March 12th test had section 7 as the experimental. And we know that on the April 2 test the experimental had to be either 6 or 7 (the two big grammer sections). So i'm willing to bet that its section 7 on this exam too.</p>
<p>Yeah FlyingV, you got the odd-even question right. I got it wrong. :(</p>
<p>I finished every section easily, and actually had time to look back over my answers. I think that I was a little rushed at the end of two sections (last math, last crit reading). On my practice tests at home, I usually had trouble finishing the math. Go figure.</p>
<p>Does anyone know the answer to one the vocab one that had to do with idealists?</p>
<p>the answers were something like</p>
<p>A) ? ?
B)criticize, visionary
C)condone, ?
D)something...
E)condemn, ?</p>
<p>I know pragmatic was in there somewhere. Does that ring any bells? It said something about political parties too.</p>
<p>I remember that, i also remember not knowing what to choose lol. I endend up choosing somthing pragmatic. Maybe condemn, pragmatic. </p>
<p>Reasoning: I wasn't exactly sure what was meant by an idealist. But i figured they had radical ideas. In which case they would condemn pragmatic (practical) ones.</p>
<p>EDIT: Just looked up idealist on webster.com
"one guided by ideals; especially : one that places ideals before practical considerations"
w00tage! It has ignoring practicality right in the definition :)</p>
<p>meh, does anyone know what score two wrong on math would be?</p>
<p>Nice, I got that one wrong I think. :( lol</p>
<p>Another one that gave me trouble was that number line question, with incremental values of 3, x, y, blank, and 2x.</p>
<p>It took me a while, but I'm pretty sure that the answer was 5.</p>