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<p>Now I feel old. Che Guevara was a revolutionary (one could say terrorist) sent by Cuba to overthrow governments of other Latin American countries in the 1960s. The organizer of grape-picking laborers, who was nationally famous in the United States beginning in the 1970s, was Cesar Chavez. </p>

<p>[Che</a> Guevara - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_guevara]Che”>Che Guevara - Wikipedia) </p>

<p>[César</a> Chávez - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/César_Chávez]César”>Cesar Chavez - Wikipedia)</p>

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<p>I had been wondering what anything about Che Guevara (I would politely him a callous murderer) could be doing in an SAT/ACT question.</p>

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<p>^^Probably one of the reading passages.</p>

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<p>I got my scores on Friday! 236 in OH… :slight_smile: That should make NMSF, but beyond that, do scores play a part in decision of finalists or eventual winners?</p>

<p>I’m hoping my 2290 SAT is within range, right?</p>

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<p>anyone know what -5, -6, and -7 in CR is</p>

<p>for wednesday test</p>

<p>is it like 72/70/69?</p>

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<p>Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: South Dakota
Posts: 18</p>

<p>Wed curve update
ANOTHER UPDATE:
Wed 2008 Curve</p>

<p>M
-0 80
-1 77
-2 74
-4 69
-21 48</p>

<p>CR
-0 80
-1 80
-2 77
-5 72
-6 68*
-11 64
-12 63
-15 60</p>

<p>W
-0 80
-1 77
-2 73
-4 70 * (s1 missed 4 with 0 omits and got 68)
-6 65
-10 60</p>

<p>Is that - questions missed or points missed?</p>

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<p>whoa no way -6 is 68</p>

<p>because if -11 is 64</p>

<p>that means there is a -5 between -6 and -11
but onnly -4 betwene 68 and 64</p>

<p>somethings fishy</p>

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<p>Scores this Thursday (ughhh can’t wait) for me.</p>

<p>Does anyone know what was -2 for math (Saturday)? I’m hoping nothing less than 73, please…<em>sigh</em></p>

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<p>Oh, I’ll contribute what I can to this thread.</p>

<p>Saturday test –
-1 CR = 80
-1 W = 76
-0 M = 80</p>

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<p>God I still haven’t gotten mine. Where can I get it?</p>

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<p>Ugh, i’m so ****ed! stupid 98th percentile. 208</p>

<p>This is the way it went down for me. So I start out good right?
Writing- 73, missed two. (and i shouldn’t have b/c writing is easy!)
math- 71, i missed 1 multiple choice and 2 free answer :frowning:
and then there’s the devil…</p>

<p>CR-64. missed 8! *** is that?</p>

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<p>so how about them grape workers (ie what was the answer)</p>

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<p>There may be a difference in your standard score (but I’m not sure) depending on WHICH questions you miss, because the questions are categorized as “easy,” “medium,” or “hard.” Perhaps missing a hard question has a different effect on your score than missing an easy question–but maybe not.</p>

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<p>Please correct me if I’m wrong, tokenadult or others, but I don’t think that the level of the question a student misses affects the score. As in football, “they all count one” . . . except, of course, that they don’t exactly all count one, because missing 3 is actually 2 worse than missing 2.</p>

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<p>The difficulty of a question should not affect its weight in your index score.</p>

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<p>Let’s dig into the details of </p>

<p><a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools; </p>

<p>and see.</p>

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<p>my gc said december 1st…then 8th…and now 15th…
when are the scores coming!?</p>

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<p>!! ^^ I am so excited with my PSAT scores. I have been waiting and my school finally let me have them today. I was expecting maybe flat 700s, hoping for a bit more just enough to qualify. </p>

<p>Instead, I got:
math - 770 (1 incorrect question)
critical reading - 770 (2 incorrect)
writing 620 (7 incorrect… grr… lost 2 points)</p>

<p>I am very pleased with my math and critical reading scores, but writing is really low for me… I don’t know what happened. But I guess I’ll make sure they are much higher next time. On my SAT I took earlier this year (scored 2020 then), I got a 680, with writing as my highest subject… so it’s kinda odd that flipflopped.</p>

<p>Question though. Why’d I lose two points if I only had -7 in writing? It says minus 1/4 of a point per each…</p>

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<p>it rounds down if you have 1/4 of a point, otherwise your score is rounded up.</p>

<p>Honestly, I have to say I did better than I though I would in my critical reading section, even though I still scored terribly. I ommitted 6 questions in total due to inefficient time management (last 1 on the first section and last 5 on the second). Still got a 580, which is not at all what I deserved, since I got more questions wrong.</p>

<p>Writing was pretty bad as well, I thought it was pretty hard and I got 3 wrong, and math was easy.</p>

<p>Total score:
M: 80
W: 70
CR:58</p>

<p>Clearly, I need to do more work in reading</p>

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<p>I got my scores back today and i am sooo happy! Freshman and sophomore years i never got more than 210!
CR:80, missed 1, 0 omits
M:80, all correct
W:73 missed 2, 0 omits.
233, which is NM for sure. =)</p>