January 2009 SAT Critical Reading Discussion

<p>i don’t know how i’m gonna wait 17 days, it seems so far away =/</p>

<p>i wasn’t thinking about that question, and personally i don’t remember demographics being in the answer chocies. for that one i think i put something with less knowledge??</p>

<p>yeah demographics was deff an answer choice to a DIFF question… not sure if that was the choice i picked… all i remember was that was an easy question</p>

<p>to that nomad passage…one of the last questions was like something something what point is the author making or w/e. and 2 of the choices were ‘society becoming more materialistic’ or ‘losing diversity’. does anyone know the answer? i put the latter, tho the passage seemed to be going off in a different direction than how it had started. heh :/</p>

<p>it was losing diversity, not materialism</p>

<p>ok good (:</p>

<p>Scores are reported on Feb. 12. </p>

<p>I honestly thought the vocabulary was really easy for except maybe the last section sentence completions.
But overall I felt like I did good, but is it normal sometimes that you feel like maybe its too easy and that you’re getting simple questions wrong and that you don’t know about.
Because I felt persistent and consistent during the test, but now that Im just contemplating I feel like I made some dumb mistakes.</p>

<p>ok honestly guys there is no point in trying to argue over a couple questions…you already have taken the test, you can’t change your answers, so the only purpose to arguing over something that you can’t take back is pointless. my advice: keep your mind off the sat, don’t waste your time arguing about this, and just wait a couple weeks until you get your results.</p>

<p>btw i’m not referring to just the recent debates over an answer to a question…i’m just talking about alll 54 pages of arguements</p>

<p>yeah lotta people are saying this test was rele hard. but i honestly think it was a million times easier than oct. and december… the curve is gonna be harsh or modest at best. im guessing -2=800 and -7 =700… i think that collegeboard new that alot of people were taking the SAT for the 1st time this jan and made it decently easy and set a harsh curve</p>

<p>if we find out feb 12…but the registration deadline for march is feb 10…??</p>

<p>its all a ploy.</p>

<p>I feel that while this test didn’t necessarily include the hardest questions, there were many real tricky and/or time-consuming questions. This is what leads people to get things wrong on these kinds of tests, so the curve might be generous.</p>

<p>But that’s just the opinion of one test-taker. Thousands probably thought it was easy, thousands hard, and hundreds of thousands so-so. The curve hardly means anything in the whole scope of the test. </p>

<p>The scraping and scratching to “perfection” (as defined by collegeboard) is ridiculous. Everyone wants to get into Harvard, but nobody likes a whiny *****.</p>

<p>Hundreds of thousands = hard, tens of thousands = so-so, thousands = easy</p>

<p>hahhaa cupnoodles, i agree. i think i’m one of the hundreds of thousands</p>

<p>same here.CR was quite difficult this time around unlike the November SAT.I found the Math section pretty intriguing though,but not too tough</p>

<p>wow i feel confident now. i got 3 wrong forsure but i thought i was going to get every single CR question wrong. i feel like my goal of 600+ is obtainable! haha : )</p>

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You thought it was easy??? You’ve argued for so many incorrect answers.</p>

<p>^^^ lol i argued on THREE and only one of them were wrong (the jealous one) The other two i argued for… past to future, and wry amusement were correct. so right now i am at a -1 on the passages and if u dont agree about the past to future one read my previous post on the last page</p>

<p>especially post #786… that was prob listed as a MEDIUM question cuz the answer was so obvious… the only reason that it was prob not easy was because it introduced an answer choice that dealt with information from later on in the passage. (which of course had nothing to do with the function of the sentence they were asking about)</p>

<p>There was a question on the art passage regarding an “Old Master”</p>

<p>What was the answer?</p>