<p>I answered at least a quater of the astronomy questions by previous knowledge. If you watched "The Elegant Universe", thats basically what that passage was on, lol. </p>
<p>MLK: haha, i just read about MLK and "i have a dream" on wikipedia like 2 weeks ago out of curiosity, so that prepared for me....somewhat for the passages, but not for the question tho</p>
<p>Its just interesting that the SATs would give me two topics that i'm familiar with.</p>
<p>I actually read the book "The Elegant Universe " by Brian Greene, that passage about stringtheory is like from the first chapter, exactly the same. And I actually reread that part very recently .</p>
<p>The Lucy and Cecil one is an excerpt taken from the book "A Room with a View" that I read over the summer.</p>
<p>Yeah, we watched "The Elegant Universe" during chem last year. It was definitely very interesting!</p>
<p>I was at the bookstore with my mom over the summer, and decided to read the first chapter of "The Elegant Universe" while she was looking for some books. I was very pleasantly surprised to see that a passage from that first chapter was on the SAT, especially because it would have been such a long passage to read otherwise (even though it was one of the most interesting passages, in my opinion).</p>
<p>I was excited that the science was actually stuff I knew this time :-P</p>
<p>Hey let's mail a thank you card to Brian Green for writing such an elegant book and saving us grief of untangking the strings on this section!</p>
<p>I hate science -_-</p>
<p>I watched and read The Elegant Universe couple times....yea..it's quite interesting....well fit to my taste</p>
<p>We had read A Room With a View last year in AP English.</p>
<p>Everyone has at least heard of MLK's I Have a Dream speech.</p>
<p>A physics professor from Berkeley came to talk to my school about two/three weeks ago.</p>
<p>So that was all pretty good. But where was the typical SAT essay on being American? I remember past ones on a girl who moved from China to America, and a Native American trying to fit in. Where was that passage this time?</p>
<p>I hadn't seen any of the passages before...bastards. Of course I have heard of MLK's I Have a Dream speech, but that didn't help me understand the passages (especially the 2nd one). String theory was easy, but Cecile and MLK killed me.</p>
<p>such specialized passages this time, I thought</p>
<p>i wanna smack my eng teacher and my phys teacher =)</p>