Ugh. One wrong. Anyone else?

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<p>I know which one it was, too. That question that's like, "what's the smallest 4-digit number where all of the digits multiply to 12?" and I was like "obviously it's 1026" forgetting that 12x0=0. </p>

<p>Not that I'm at all upset with a near perfect score, I'm just a junior and this was my first time, so I don't have to worry about math anymore. Plus in the eyes of colleges a 770 is pretty much the same as an 800. </p>

<p>Anyways, whatevs. Any other near-perfect scorers? Do you know which one(s) it was that tripped you up and caused that dumb mistake?</p>

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<p>Yep, it’s 1126…</p>

<p>I’ve scored perfect on SAT math, but I’ve tripped up like that on other math tests, primarily contests such as AMC and AIME. That cost me USAMO qualification last year. Oh well.</p>

<p>I nearly tripped up on this one SAT MC math question though – Idr the exact question but it was something like this: “A school has 300 students, 60% of them are male, and 10% of the students in the school speak Chinese. How many male students speak Chinese?”</p>

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<p>Would the answer to that be 18 students, or am I missing something</p>

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<p>Some value between 0 and 30.</p>

<p>Some detail is missing in the problem statement.</p>

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<p>1 omitted, no perfect 2400</p>

<p>:facepalm:</p>

<p>still don’t know which I didn’t answer cuz QAS takes so long…</p>

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<p>-2, be it the pentagon problem because I didn’t see that we were supposed to rotate it down there not just until the figures “match.”
And a dumb mistake somewhere else, no idea why I got 750 when I’ve seen 770s and 790s <—(Probably lying!) and I only missed 2… Lucky curves for them :P</p>

<p>And as for math competitions, geometry actually is more of a stronger suit for me, yet on the SAT, those types of problems are the only ones I make mistakes on… (Probably too many factors to keep track of)</p>

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<p>Out of all the practice tests I took before I took the SAT a year ago, math was the only section I could consistently 800 in. When I took the actually test, I 800’d in CR and W. Missed the FIRST math problem by misgridding and got a 770. Oops! >.></p>

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<p>Oof, that’s rough. Yeah, I knew it was 1126 as I was leaving the testing room… that was not a fun realization</p>

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<p>Wait so 1 wrong was 770?
I saw ALOT of people saying 790 for Math.
Whats going on?</p>

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<p>I’m pretty sure I got the minimum to get 800s in writing and reading the month I took it (1 omit writing, 11E and -2 reading) haha…</p>

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<p>@AstroBlue did u take it November?</p>

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<p>Sorry for the late reply…psets and everything.</p>

<p>The answer to that question (post #2) turned out to be E, it cannot be determined from the information given, which is what I picked (after over 5 minutes of rereading the question). Got an 800.</p>

<p>Also, the following scenario is possible:
Perfect: 800
1 omitted/wrong grid-in: 790 (raw score x - 1)
1 wrong MC: 770 (raw score x - 5/4)</p>

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<p>Except that raw scores are rounded to the nearest whole number, so omitting one and answering one wrong makes no difference.</p>

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<p>Ah okay, didn’t know that…</p>

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<p>Are the answer choices that are like “the answer cannot be determined” often correct? Usually on my practice tests those are never right</p>

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<p>And Preply not to be annoying but I’m pretty sure they not only round to the nearest whole, but they also round up no matter what, correct me if I’m wrong</p>

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<p>They round up if it’s .5, not if it’s .25</p>

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<p>@kooshbag I think E) It cannot be determined… is very rarely correct, but in some cases (like this one) it is.</p>