I Just Gave It! Omg Omg Omg!

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<p>I’m not going to discuss any questions, so don’t bother reading on if that’s what you’re looking for. No, I’m not scared of electrocution; I just don’t like you. :stuck_out_tongue: </p>

<p>This was one of the weirdest tests I have ever given.</p>

<p>So first, I arrived at the American Embassy for the exam. (They have a school there) It took me about 20 minutes to get in. They checked my passport first, and then me with a metal detector … after which, they opened my bag. They took about 2-3 minutes on my calculator. Apparently, they had never seen a CASIO CFX before; everyone must get TIs, I guess. Oh, and a few peeps got sent back because their passports had expired. So don’t forget to take VALID identification with you!</p>

<p>At 8:15, I entered the room. The proctor was stupid. Not only did she check our passport and photo EVERY time we took a loo break, she collected cell-phones and WRAPPED them up in newspapers to ensure they wouldn’t ring…</p>

<p>On to the test.</p>

<p>So yeah, the essay was OK. I would have scored a 5 (or maybe even 6) … except that I was on the second-to-last sentence when the time finished. Now sure, I would have scribbled some crap anyway, but the proctor was right next to me and she literally SNATCHED my pencil. :frowning: </p>

<p>Next, the first Math section. I always manage to finish the math section at least 5 minutes before time. Not this time, though. I don’t really know what came over me, but as soon as the proctor said “10 minutes remaining” … I panicked and screwed up ALL last four questions. They were pretty easy, but I still couldn’t get the right answer.</p>

<p>Ironically, I finished all the other sections (CR, WR, AND remaining Math) 5-10 minutes before time. :/</p>

<p>The vocabulary was, in my opinion, much easier than the BB tests. There wasn’t a word I didn’t know - which was a first.</p>

<p>Writing was also simple. The sentence corrections were obvious, and the error identification too easy. Even the essay/paragraph draft was short.</p>

<p>Overall, the SAT was much better than I’d hoped. I could’ve achieved 2350+, but due to my own recklessness (or whatever it was), I’ll be getting something in the 2200s.</p>

<p>On the bright side, however, the CR and WR sections went extremely well. So if the colleges I apply to look at my scores INDIVIDUALLY, they’ll see 750+ in both of them. That, coupled with the fact that I have 770 in Math IIC, should make up for my mistakes in the Math section. Right?</p>

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<p>Well done! Sounds like a weird day though (maybe they acted so manic about your calculator and passport and such because it’s the American Embassy?) haha! </p>

<p>Hope you’ve done a good job!</p>

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<p>Yeah, I hope so, too. Thanks! :)</p>

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<p>Gave? </p>

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<p>i took it as well. im not gonna discuss the content, but im gonna tell how it went. its almost 8 pm now, so ,its been 6 ish hrs since i finished LOL.
at 7 40 ish i arrived at the test center, as usual the proctor checked ID’s and stuff, everything went well. i like the proctor too, i took sat 3 times, hes always the one proctering me lol…i guess it goes by last names ,well duh.!
my proctor is nice,he tells us that we have 5 mins remaining,and nothing bad happen at all.
at first it was the essay, essay was easy, i wrote almost 2 pages(2 lines remaining), i spent too much time on my first example, ended up rushing 2nd example and conclusion. gladly,i finished on time. then i had cr, it was okay, SC was ridiculously easy, i knew 99.5% of the words as well. the CR was okay. then we had a 5 min break(after essay and sec 2).
then, another reading section! meh, still gotta do it, again easy SC,probably aced the SC…
then 4th section i think was a math, 20 Q’s, i tried to pace myself cuz time was running short, like 10 ish mins with 6 qs remaining.i was panickin LOL. so i kinda rushed a lil, hopefully i got all 20 of them right.
WR, this section is a joke!! LOL,i feel so lucky, 35 Qs, probably 34 of them are predictable. i was very lucky that i circled the Q’s i put E, then i went back and scrutinize them, dang!! i caught 3 or 4 stupid mistakes!! i was so glad that i circled and found out… im so confident on this sec!
nx section was another CR, it turns out to be really hard, sigh… this is the only regret i hav =/
basically everything went all after that, except until i came across a M Q. time was short, i rushed… after i did the last W section, we answered some survey Q’s, i fig out the M Q!!! however i couldn’t go back,bleh that’s a -1 for M already,im so mad at myself =[
overall i think M was easy
W was easy
CR medium</p>

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<p>im going to take it in 1 hour.</p>

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<p>My essay went really well…and wrote a lot.
Literally no space left, maybe 11 or 12.</p>

<p>Math was really easy, much better than the January test…
But made one stupid mistake so only hoping for a 780…sigh</p>

<p>CR was also relatively easy, most of the passages were very straight forward,
the comparative was a little bit hard though. Hoping for a 720+.</p>

<p>Writing also went pretty well, but was unsure on a few of the sentence corrections.
Hoping for a 750+.</p>

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<p>O_o 2 easys and a hard on CR…so which one is it lol thats the only section I’m worried about</p>

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So yeah, the essay was OK. I would have scored a 5 (or maybe even 6) … except that I was on the second-to-last sentence when the time finished. Now sure, I would have scribbled some crap anyway, but the proctor was right next to me and she literally SNATCHED my pencil.

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<p>Yea, don’t worry about this. On my essay, I didn’t get to any conclusion at all, and I still got a 5 (10), and I’m sure a lot of it had to do with how the rest of the essay was written.</p>

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<p>im probably going to leave in 10 minutes. so how was it compared to the may exam?</p>

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<p>^ yeah i wanna as well I took the may exam</p>

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<p>GAVE the SAT?
Do you mean you TOOK the SAT?</p>

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<p>wow, that much procedure to take the SATs?!
my test center was pretty damn lenient-- the proctor barely took a glance at the calculators we were using, and for the duration of the sections he was basically slumped in his desk. which was a good thing i suppose, hehe :slight_smile: helped me relax</p>

<p>i felt bad for a few kids though…they ended up at a wrong test center mistaking the school i took the SATs in for another one. sad, really. lol</p>

<p>oh and we had to wait out in the cold for 45 minutes till the proctor finally decided to check identification :(</p>

<p>the math section was alright, but i’m positive i got a couple wrong… the critical reading section i pretty much screwed up in (as usual). the writing section wasn’t too bad.</p>

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<p>^^
Well, they had a good reason for the checking. There have been a lot of terrorist attacks the past few weeks. Naturally, the US embassy would be a prime target.</p>

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Sorry, my bad. Local slang. :D</p>

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<p>LOL, terrorist attack via the SAT.</p>

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<p>I took it today, too. And I think I really, really sucked at. Didn’t have the time to finish my essay, was done way too fast with Critical Reading and Writing and took too long with math.
Guess I’ll see and probably retake.
Judging from the others I wasn’t the only one struggling.</p>

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<p>Silence, I had exactly the same problems as you had. I wasn’t too worried about CR because I’ve already scored an 800, so I went into the test with math and writing being my focus. Then I flubbed the essay, completely running out of time, and really struggled with time on the math. </p>

<p>The math problems themselves I thought were easy - I knew what to do for each of them - but I just didn’t have enough time to answer all of them. I ended up leaving about 2 blank in each section. </p>

<p>It’s really frustrating if you know how to solve a problem but just don’t have enough time to get the answer - even more frustrating, in my opinion, than if you just straight-up don’t know how to solve it to begin with.</p>

<p>I just really hope I didn’t get any wrong out of those that I did answer.</p>

<p>Btw, does anyone think they know which was the experimental section (I had one in math but I’m not sure which one it was), or are we not allowed to discuss that?</p>

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<p>I think it was a CR section. There were four CRs… but I’m hoping it was Math! :D</p>

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<p>It was definitely a CR section.</p>

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<p>damn I probably bombed the CR, and the Writing I thought was harder than normal but math there wasn’t anything I didn’t know</p>