| Aagh. This sucks. A little backstory, i guess. I took the SAT in march and missed two questions on the entire test. They were both math questions (I made terrible mistakes, a calculator mess-up with punching in some numbers and a misgridding of an answer). Unfortunately the math curve was really harsh so I got a 2340. I retook today, and thought everything was fine. Then I came on here and saw the debate over the math question with italian and german. I interpreted "the number of students taking any one language is equal to the number of students taking both" as the number of students taking either german OR italian equals the number of students taking both (any ONE language, not looking for multiple languages, thus not both), but I can also see the idea that it could be "ANY one language," meaning taking one language course as opposed to two, but still could have students in different courses. I can't decide which one's right because it just seems so ambiguous. I'm super ****ed, because I was only retaking to get the perfect math score since I already have perfect reading and writing. It makes me angry that a math question comes down to something so tiny as how you interpret a clearly ambiguous grammatical construction, since the answer's 9 my way and 6 the other way.
Apart from that everything was fine. I think i missed one critical reading, and I'm pretty sure I got all the writings (I always do in practice), so I'll probably get more 800's there just to add insult to injury hahaha. I know it's a bit ridiculous to be doing this retake, but I'm a perfectionist and it makes me feel better, so I justified it to myself. | 
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