<p>I mean, was it REALLY that bad? i mean, this forum makes it seem bad cause people only want to discuss the questions they got wrong, and not the ones they got right.</p>
<p>i thought it wasn't that bad. a bit different from tests i;ve taken before though</p>
<p>donno, I just take it once and the first time I got screwed up</p>
<p>People seem to have great difficulty with the physics and chem tests. I'm a science person, but I don't remember any concepts being too difficult for someone whose completed at least a year in either class.</p>
<p>alot of people, including me, agreed that this test took longer than usual. i was rushing through alot, and timing is usually not a big issue for me. anyone else agree?</p>
<p>yes, timing was lame. I almost didn't finish one CR section.</p>
<p>The questions are not hard and need only some basic book knowledge. But they generally take more time then I expect. So I did not finish the test and left 10 blanks</p>
<p>i agree with serphthrone and winston churchill.. left some blank - which will kill the score, but oh well</p>
<p>No matter how good you are, the real thing will always be tougher</p>
<p>Agrophobic: not necessarily. I'm one of the people in the "train hard so the real thing's easy" camp.</p>
<p>Olo your life must be boring and tough. I cannot stand one more min staying the school.</p>
<p>Now that's a horrible generalization. My life is actually fairly interesting. I'm doing well in school, well on test scores, I'm in a great relationship (1.5+ years!), have an internship (research position) in a lab, nominated for homecoming king. Only downside is I have to work ~15-20 hours/week alongside school, but hey, college isn't free.</p>
<p>As for the SATs, I studied for one day, took 8 practice tests (Barrons, Kaplan, SparkNotes, Real SATs), figured out what I did wrong on each one, and how to solve it. If you can't spend one night to help make the next four years of your life easy, then I fear your life will be quite boring and tough. Granted, we have fall break this week, so I could afford to take a day off of my social schedule to study.</p>
<p>I do have to say that I did <em>not</em> take the chem test this time around. I don't remember it being difficult, but all my friends are telling me it was the hardest they've seen, so if you did poorly on the chem, I wouldn't think it representative of your skill, and I think the curve will help you on that.</p>
<p>haha you don't have to defend yourself to this loser</p>
<p>Indeed, but I do have advice to give. Take the weekend before the SATs exclusively to study. Go through practice test after practice test, and figure out what you did wrong on each one. It only takes one weekend, and can make the whole college process a lot easier for you.</p>
<p>then you must be a genius. there is no way to do all the things and get 3 800s on subjust test and 2300 on SAT I</p>
<p>in the math, one of the questions was if one person broke the string in half, and then the gave the 1/2 to the next person, and then broke it in half..etc...was the answer 1/16? (what part the 1st person got)?</p>
<p>yes thats right</p>
<p>If you think the SAT Reasoning Test is about intelligence, you're gravely mistaken. Read my post in this</a> thread. It's not about being math-smart or reading-smart. It's about knowing what to look for.</p>
<p>If you can spend at least one weekend just working practice tests and figuring out why you missed the ones you did, I promise you you'll get a better score. Why? Not because you're any better at math or reading, but because you know what to look for.</p>
<p>I wonder how those people can have 7 AP classes per semester + sport + band after school + 800s on all sub tests + a very high SAT I ＋ volunteer 100 hour + GPA 4.5 + straight5 on all AP test and still very good at Counter Strike and Warcraft</p>
<p>I thought it was pretty easy, except for a 3 math problems, which I left blank; I suck at geometry problems.</p>
<p>To me it seems like all verbal passages are the same, and for most of the questions the right answer always has one trait: it encompasses the big picture. Like, the right answer will usually be "he was creating the basis of a new philosophy" instead of "he was critiquing an accepted aspect of scholarly research." God I hope the math curve on this is generous.</p>