the october 2007 sat thread

<p>For those who had back to back math sections in the beginning, which one was the experimental?</p>

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i actually remember both questions for the aunt in the dark short passage.

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<p>I had to guess on both questions of that passage. :S</p>

<p>Math - EASY
CR - HARD
Writing - EASY</p>

<p>so i had w,m,m,r,w,m,r,r,m,w</p>

<p>which one was experimental (1 really hope it was the first math) I omitted 3</p>

<p>also i suck at cr and thought it was pretty easy. i know i missed the completion ques. with vitriolous (sp?) but dont know what else</p>

<p>i only got to the 3rd paragraph of my essay so im screwed there.</p>

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I had to guess on both questions of that passage. :S

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<p>I need to know the answer to the first one. I omitted the 2nd one :(</p>

<p>afro
i think it was the first... don't really know why, but I didn't like the second to last question.</p>

<p>How is everyone so sure of which section is experimental? I had two CR sections back to back, and I'm hoping one of those was experimental because those were my weakest. I think I did pretty well overall. At least that's what I want to think. And thank goodness for easy writing sections!</p>

<p>I'm concerned that I only had a page and 2/3 for my essay, since the advice is usually to fill up all the space. I most likely got a 10 on the essay.</p>

<p>I think the rabbit duck thing was experimental since I don't remember that. Do they use the same type of section for each experimental section? Like, are all the CR experimental sections the same?</p>

<p>The harder sentence completions seemed nearly impossible this time. I'm usually pretty good at guessing those, so I hope my Princeton Review strategies worked out well.</p>

<p>Does the cursive thing on the back affect your score? I did fine with it but the kid next to me said he didn't know how to write in cursive. Though he also finished every section at least 5 minutes early, so I question his seriousness.</p>

<p>Which writing section was experimental? The paragraph improving about the boy that built a desk, or the one about the african american newspaper?</p>

<p>the writing with the African newspaper was NOT experimental</p>

<p>No, the cursive part doesn't affect your score =)</p>

<p>I only had 1 and 2/3 pages for my essay, too... I decided to cut out my third paragraph right at the end, because the essay worked better as a comparison between the two works that I chose.</p>

<p>I only skipped one math problem, and I felt confident about all of my answers. I hope that I didn't get tricked by any...</p>

<p>I agree about the sentence completions... I changed two of my answers at the last second, and my first instinct was correct. Blahhh. I always do that =(</p>

<p>Which experimental did I have? I didn't have the rabbit/duck passage, brick math problem, OR a paragraph about a boy and his desk...</p>

<p>I read somewhere that you tend to get a better score if you write 5 paragraphs rather than 4...is that true?</p>

<p>And if I had an experimental, it was either reading or math. I omitted 3 questions on one math section that seemed way harder than the other math sections (I didn't omit any on the other sections), so maybe that was the experimental.</p>

<p>not at all</p>

<p>I know people who got 12s with 4 paragraphs. Always take quality over quantity.</p>

<p>oh god, the aunt in the dark was a non-sense to me. The questions did not seem to have anything to do with the passage. :(</p>

<p>On average, people with 5 paragraphs probably have higher scores, because they have more examples...
That DOESN'T mean that you have a better chance of getting an 11/12 if you write 5 paragraphs... it just means that the average score might be better.
If the four paragraphs are well-written, though, and go into more detail, that essay can definitely get a high score as well.
I wrote 4 paragraphs on my ACT essay, and I got a 12 =)</p>

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not at all

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<p>whew, thank god. </p>

<p>I finished the essay 5 minutes early though...I don't think I provided enough support.</p>

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oh god, the aunt in the dark was a non-sense to me. The questions did not seem to have anything to do with the passage.

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<p>I believe that was the one with the historian passages (or was it the aunt or sailor passages?). Either way, I hope that was experimental. I guessed alot on that section. :S</p>

<p>that was not experimental... but the question was okay i thought...
lol sorry :/</p>

<p>experimental reading was the one about being in a group</p>

<p>sadly, i believe that section was not experimental as i had hoped. i had one extra writing section which was experimental. EEP!!</p>