LmfaoCollege

Hooray for random noises in testing rooms that distract you for one second and make you miss the one word on which several questions rely!

Anyway, let's all sob quietly to ourselves until the embargo has been lifted.

tristan101

What did you guys think? I thought it was easier than last year but still wasn't sure on a couple...

What's the curve again?

LmfaoCollege

I hadn't ever taken it before today, so I don't know... though I, too, would like to know the curve.

P.S.: Nice name, lol.

LmfaoCollege

I found this:

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Raw to Scale Score Conversions from The Official Study Guide for All SAT Subject Tests from the CollegeBoard. These are from the actual Sept. 2005 test tables.

These will, of course, vary from test period to test period, but are generally good guides.

Raw Score = (#Correct Answers) - (#Incorrect Answers * .25)

Test - Total Questions - Min. 800 raw score - Min. 700 raw score - Min. 600 raw score

USH - 90 - 79 -64 - 45
World History - 95 - 78 - 61 - 43
Math I - 50 - 49 - 38 - 28
Math II - 50 - 44 - 35 - 23
Biology E - 80 - 77 - 61 - 43
Biology M - 80 - 77 - 60 - 42
Chemistry - 85 - 82 - 61 - 41
Physics - 75 - 59 - 45 - 30
Chinese w/ Listening - 85 - 80 - 61 - 42
French - 85 - 75 - 59 - 42
French w/ Listening - 86 - 75 - 61 - 45
German - 85 - 83 - 68 - 54
German w/ Listening - 87 - 87 - 69 - 52
Italian - 82 - 78 - 64 - 44
Japanese w/ Listening - 80 - 78 - 66 - 55
Korean w/ Listening - 80 - 78 - 61 - 45
Latin - 74 - 66 - 52 - 38
Modern Hebrew - 85 - 81 - 75 - 65
Spanish - 85 - 83 - 67 - 55
Spanish w/ Listening - 85 - 82 - 70 - 57
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That would be nice if this were true for this month's!

UKtoUSA

I found the test absolutely brutal. I am near-fluent at French and have received letters from the principal examiners here in the UK for my perfect scores at A-Level, but the exam formats are clearly completely different. I was expecting there to be at least some time between the questions in the earlier sections to allow me to write, but it blazed through them so fast that even though I knew the answer to many of the questions by the time I wrote it down it was halfway through the next one.

The reading part was alright. Is the curve generous for this? I suppose I can throw my hopes for an 800 out the window. How many questions can you get wrong and still come in over 700?

UKtoUSA

I posted about a minute too late to see that set of data. Anyway looking at that I hope I can scrape a 700, I seriously messed up the listening section. Good luck to everyone!

tristan101

Thanks for the curve post; I looked through these threads and apparently this was the same exam as the one given in Nov. 2007. Unfortunately, they didn't discuss it very much lol.

When's the embargo over?

LmfaoCollege

Wow, I didn't realize that they so readily reused tests.

Hopefully it will be over by tonight? I don't know, really, as I have no experience with this forum.

tristan101

Yay it was just lifted, (I think).

Those listening passages were really weird; what did you guys put for the carousel and 2 boys one?

There was one in grammar about sitting down to picnic somewhere by a tree. Was it "the shadow"?

LmfaoCollege

Ok, for the one about the carousel, I put something about the boy (like I said, the quality was horrible and if there was another boy, I didn't see him) really enjoying or having fun on the carousel. It was the only one that made sense to me.

As for the picnic one, yes, I put that.

For the listening one about the traveler's check, was he receiving euros? And for the other listening one about the people at the open-air market?

The one listening passage about the painting completely confused me by the end of it, seeing as I didn't seem to have heard her say which way she decided to paint the scene. What did you do?

UKtoUSA

For the listening about the painting I put that she was going to paint the landscape (le paysage) through a window, or something to that effect. As I mentioned above, however, I think I really messed up the listening.

tristan101

Oh, darn. For the carousel one I don't even remember the options, I might have put something about the kids being scared? If that was even an option. The picture was so dark I didn't see anything. And I put the 2 boys were putting back markers, not playing cards, though the pic was soooo bad.

I said he was receiving checks because he was giving the checks to the bank person.
For the market, I said there were a variety of people?

I said she liked the countryside view for the painting.

I didn't really understand that Tristan passage, lol. What was the jongler's attitude, etc?

And was it BIEN des annees?

UKtoUSA

The carousel one... I think I put the girl is winning a horse race? Totally stupid answer now that I think about it, but I had no time

I think the 2 boys were quickly picking up papers because they dropped them, wasn't that the last option?

I said receiving euros, because I thought he was handing in checks. I think the Tristan passage was a harpist played at a banquet for barons, then some dude is like "yo play something a lil different", the guy is like "yeah let's see if you can do better" and he did.

I put bien des annees.

What did you guys put for the one that went: Zut alors! J'ai sorti sans...

I put "que d'argent" but I think that was wrong

LmfaoCollege

Exactly, the picture was HORRIBLE ! I think my answer choice for that one might have been A.

But like I said, the painting/countryside one completely confused me. I think I took the stance that she was inside the house, painting the vase with the countryside through the open window. Therefore I said the vase interested her the most? And the kind of flowers?

tristan101

Hmm, yeah probably, I think I just misheard 'feutres' for 'feuilles' or something lol, so that's the one I put.