<p>yea i didnt have the politician one</p>
<p>The room might be better than it now is if it were brightly painted.
whats the erro?</p>
<p>is there one?</p>
<p>i dont know, i thought you needed to correct might into would</p>
<p>it should be than it is now instead of than it now is....in my opinion</p>
<p>yikes - i wasnt sure about this one
wait how does canceling your score work
can you still cancel?</p>
<p>joke? (10 chars)</p>
<p>so who else got the test with the essay topic abt people's ideas being influenced by their surroundings?
and the cr passages abt some dude who imitated a classic painting to prove that contemporary artists were just as good as the old ones?
and a mrs someone who feels isolated wen she moves in w/ her daughter to a big house.
and some math q's abt trapezoids,...cant remember many more. but does anyone have answers to this test?</p>
<p>Wellllll here's my rundown...
I took the SAT in April and didn't reach my goal, so I retook it...
I had four math (two grid in), three CR and two writing, plus the essay.</p>
<p>My essay prompt: "...does a commitment to technological advancement cause a society to neglect other values, such as education and environmental blah blah blah..." that may not be verbatim, but it's close
I cited Moore's Utopians being socially "advanced" without advanced technology (which was clever because the quote it gave was written by Moore ;) ), "personal observation" of hackers/online predators being aided by online anonymity, Stephen Levitt's book Freakonomics (although I kinda twisted the content to fit the topic...the readers won't care though)...so basically I said that technology increases the ease and frequency of crime, and blah blah blah technology bad</p>
<p>Anywhoooo....
My CR: Forten (the black businessman in Philadelphia)
- "evidence like this" = gives concrete details about business transactions
- man of trade - "trade" = "profession"
- "attend to" = "look after"
- what would help researchers = documents detailing relations with clients
- something about how his answer to the census showed him "balancing competing interests"</p>
<pre><code> Visual imagery/the mind completes images/constellations
- name of constellation in southern hemisphere = "drawing compass"
- when he says something like "i still look in wonder at the constellations...i learned long ago to pick out so-and-so constellations" - he DID NOT show a connection to the Greeks and DID NOT reminisce about childhood days, he was talking about his ability to see something in the night sky
- when he goes from talking about how the mind completes images to talking about how "maybe the mind does this to fulfill a subconscious need for completion and the mind something something nothingness" he goes from scientific explanation to psychoanalytic
Women in art/Genius/aristocrats and art
- Michaelangelo could do work "quickly and with ease"
- Picasso/Pablita showed "parents might do something differently (teach/act) based on gender of child"
- when he says "even if not equipped with a flock of sheep" his tone was wry
Weathermen
- Larry was "transparently incensere"
- Passage 1 would say Passage 2's assertion that "weathermen are cut from the same cloth...supposed to maintain while the world around them is in danger blah blah" is "not entirely accurate"
Vocab: for the complex machine, it is more likely to FAIL if critical tasks are left to one part, so REDUNDANCY is important; gerrymandering; chicanery (i left that one blank, didn't want to risk it)
Math...
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<p>Grid-ins: area of shaded region in illustration with 3 squares = 3/16; the one with the parabola had a vertex at (5, -4) and it asked one value where y = 0, i put 2.94, idk if this is right (my function was y = x^2 - (81/8)x + (169/8), which satisifies the requirement that f(1) = f(9) = 12)</p>
<p>MC: woman's shoe size = 7; if its not in list X, its not in list Y (contrapositive); the distance between B and C on the triangle laid over the stream = 120/root(3); number of points that y = absval(x) has in common with y = x^2 is 3; if line has (j, k) and (2j, 2k), function is y = k/j x; 10 digit number, every digit has to be either a 4 or a 5, the number can never be prime; if hypotenuse is 2 greater than sum of legs, then root(x^2 + y^2) = x + y + 2</p>
<p>Well that's all I can remember right now...some of these may not be right, but these were my asnwers and I'm pretty confident in most of them...</p>
<p>I don't remember any of the writing, but i wasn't really paying attention to it because i didn't need to improve my writing score...soooo discuss</p>
<p>hmmm, as I guess, I did well-ish on the math (I got all the ones you put up) and not so great on the reading (I missed 2 or 3 you have up there)
i dont know about writing, but I would be mostly satisfied with my score if it didn't happen to go up, though I hope it did (knock on wood)</p>
<p>for the parabola i got x^2 - 10x + 21 as the function. so i got like 3 or 7 when x = 0. vertex at (-5,4)</p>
<p>(y+4) = (x-5)^2
y+4 = x^2 - 10x + 25
- 4 - 4
y = x^2 - 10x + 21</p>
<p>check with f(1) and f(9) both equal to 12</p>
<p>so therefore at 3 or 7, y=0. </p>
<p>For the question about larry, i thought it was atypical of a weathermen because he was quite shy. also, what was the main idea about weatherman that was common to both authors?</p>
<p>Madame Bovary--
The room might be better than it now is if it were brightly painted.</p>
<p>It should be "was" instead of "were"; room is singular, not plural. </p>
<p>I had the international version of the test, which basically means that nobody on this thread had the same one i did. Blah.</p>
<p>you're right for those two...i don't know where i got those fractions, they're very close to 10 (81/8) and 20 (169/8), but somehow they got skewed, and at one point i even simplified it to 10 and 20, but decided to stick with my answer...grr...oh well, its a grid in....and the atypical, i read it as typical, so i got that one wrong too....grrgrr....</p>
<p>for what was common to both, i said that they both said that weathermen were typically like flamboyant or something of that sort</p>
<p>does any1 remember the other choices for the vocab question about complex machines depending on one part (fail;redundacy)</p>
<p>hey la</p>
<p>were is probably correct because the phrase is 'if it were' since it is the subjunctive</p>
<p>i think i put falter and concentration :/</p>
<p>hey_la the were is necessary when used in a if then statement</p>
<p>i had a cr section that was 20 min and one of the passages was about a guy who likes being lost... did that section count?</p>
<p>"if its not in list X, its not in list Y (contrapositive)" -Zspot9
=Alrite well thats wrong because the question said "Every member in Group X is also in Group Y" thus If its not in group Y its not in group X because Y can have additional numbers but must have every number in group X.
Whatever no big deal just thought you shuld know.</p>
<p>Myyy bad guys :)
Am v. glad that wasn't on the version I took</p>