<p>So the consensus on the thief question is that it was No Error?</p>
<p>What was the closest number to 7?!!?! </p>
<p>lool 7.0009 or something like that</p>
<p>^definitely!</p>
<p>Thief had no error … Most people get tripped up by “that,” which is actually correct, and still others get tripped up on “has shrunk,” which is correct (has + past participle).</p>
<p>Closest number to 7: 7.009</p>
<p>Sudoku-looking puzzle (fill in box by adding number above and to the left): 15</p>
<p>Does anyone remember the question asking why Mo repeated “it’s not a popularity contest” or am I just imagining that that was a question? lol</p>
<p>^ Agreed. Also, someone has surely brought this up already, but have you guys seen this: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/611557-my-questions-about-december-sat.html?[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/611557-my-questions-about-december-sat.html?</a></p>
<p>Repeated questions, didn’t know they did that.</p>
<p>What would be me score? Im in MN btw.</p>
<p>CR: -8 (I subtracted the .25 and stuff already)
M: -1
W: -2</p>
<p>There wasn’t a 7.0009, ***ffffffff?!?!</p>
<p>So, all of these are correct:</p>
<p>Critical Reading:
Sentence Completions:
-Scientists failing: deplorable
-Library fostered “unfettered” thought
-Misanthropic<br>
-Ruses/artifice
-Flamboyant, not elephantine.
-Pedestrian
Mo and Duncan Passage
-Tape recorder signified difference in Mo’s and Duncan’s students
-Mo’s teaching style was pompous
-Mo was mocking Duncan
-Mo was trying to limit Duncan’s ability as a teacher
-The buff class leader was embarrassed because he was asking the class’s request
-Broach: Bring up
-Duncan was sympathetic to the students</p>
<p>Extraterrestrial passages:
-Tone: Passionate
-Retraction vs. Concession: Concession</p>
<p>Bronte:
-Simile and Personification, not Understatement
-Slippery: Unreliable
-Odd meant infrequent (odd painting)
-Paragraph 6 expanded on a comparison in paragraph 5
-“Between”: Emphasize a different meaning to a previously used word
-Sister’s actions were unfortunate by understandable
-Serious meant considerable (had some serious literary sleuthing to do)
-Good look into personal life: private diary letters</p>
<p>Urban Sprawl passages:
-Elitist and shortsighted vs. arrogant and vindictive: elitist and shortsighted
-2 short passages described urban sprawl as “homogeneous”
-Quotation marks distanced the author from the aforementioned critics</p>
<p>Math:
-Parallelogram: 20*68 (1360)
-Arithmetic mean with a<b<c, b = 20, answer should have been 35.
-Distance between the two points: .9
-Car at 50 mph: 7.2 minutes
-Venn diagram (10-100, inclusive, multiples of three, not perfect squares): 28
-The question about k: k/2k-n
-Isosceles triangle max length: 11
- -1<x<0 – lowest value is 1/(x^3)
-Intersection of two linear equations, y=5.5
-Golf tournament: 30
-CDs to make the other job pay more: 134
Students in 1994: 220
x<y<0: I and III
Isosceles triangle+square: 12x
India: 37 million computer users
Difference in car sales: 260,000
7.009 was the closest to 7
Sudoku(add top/left): 15</p>
<p>Writing:
Sentence Errors:
-Governments/violate question: error in “it violates”, should be “they violate”
-Caesar salad question: “But”
-Prohibit “from”
-Parliament question: should have been “For those who”
-Security company question about choosing a password should have been “you not choose”
-Eels have organs in their tail which (enables) <- error, should be enable
Should have been “her and her husband”, not “she and her husband”
-Two no errors: Thieves, yoyo maker.</p>
<p>Artist (readymade) passage:
-What could be added to the 2nd paragraph: How a readymade could become appealing</p>
<p>But the thief had “showed”…</p>
<p>@emblem101 on page 4: You got really lucky haha. That was not a permutation problem it was a combination one but since they said two matches you had to multiply the final number by 2 so you still got it right. Had they played 3 matches your answer woulda been incorrect.</p>
<p>The thief question is the only one in the writing section that I KNOW I got wrong. I thought that there was a tense changed from “had (verb that I don’t remember)” to “has (verb that I do not remember).” I though it was something equivalent to the following:</p>
<p>He had ran before he has walked.</p>
<p>Does anyone remember the question asking why Mo repeated “it’s not a popularity contest” or am I just imagining that that was a question? lol </p>
<p>that was definitely a question i think i said it was cause he felt the students likd duncan more</p>
<p>Why is the Between to emphazise a new point? I thought it was sort of a continuation…</p>
<p>Darn… this was hard</p>
<p>Down 2 CR, 1 Math, 1 W</p>
<p>I hope the curve is really really generous</p>
<p>There was a question that asked the volume of a cylinder and gave you the surface area not including the bases. It was the last question in one of the math sections.</p>
<p>The answer included a 36…</p>
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<p>I put the same answer; it was the only answer that made sense at the time …</p>
<p>what are the cutoff scores</p>
<p>^^ I put because Mo felt the students liked Duncan more as the answer to that one as well…</p>
<p>im pretty sure the cylinder question was 35pir</p>