March 2009 SAT discussion

<p>I had 4 reading sections, and there was this one passage that I feel like I absolutely failed on.
Did anyone else get a passage about the media’s effect on children or something? I was working really slowly for some reason, and I had to rush through the last 4 or 5 questions. ><</p>

<p>that passage on media’s effect wasnt’ too bad i believe?</p>

<p>I think the Math was much easier than usual. I finished on time and I knew how to do each one. Let’s hope silly errors don’t come back to bite.</p>

<p>The CR was okay. I found one of the passages a bit harder than the rest, I think it was the one with the Indian guy writing books.</p>

<p>The Writing was okay. I practiced it a lot the past week and I feel that I got most of the questions correct. </p>

<p>Does anyone know when the Experimental Section # is released? I think it was either 4 or 5 because those were my back-to-back Math sections.</p>

<p>800 M
750 CR
750 W</p>

<p>2300 (I hope)</p>

<p>Math: 650-740-- Darn it! Math is usually what I do well on!
CR: 650-720— I hope 720. Not my best subject.
Writing: 750-800— So easy. Expecting 800, but 750 just in case I made careless errors</p>

<p>CR: 740? (2 confirmed wrong, a couple disputed)
M: 740-770 (2 wrong)
W: 800</p>

<p>Er yeah, it doesn’t seem very likely I’ll break 2300, but it’d be great if I did on my first time around. Retaking in October regardless because I practically cried over Math.</p>

<p>^ I’m glad I wasn’t the only one frustrated by the math. If I get my 800 CR and at least 750 math, I’ll be done. If I don’t, I’ll consider retaking… I know 2300 is good enough to not warrant a retake, but I fairly certain that given another chance I could get 800 M, and CR didn’t turn out to be as difficult as I feared.</p>

<p>shark75: it went like this:</p>

<p>Although the desert is barren and lifeless, its light winds and [[something]] make it, to some, the most strangely beautiful landscape in the world.</p>

<p>I wrote no error…</p>

<p>Isn’t “make it” wrong because desert is singular?</p>

<p>No, because “make” refers to the lights, wind, and something else, while the “it” refers to the desert. No error is correct I believe.</p>

<p>CR: 750-790
M: 770-800
W: 740-800</p>

<p>I haven’t really scoured the threads, but I haven’t found anything wrong yet. These scores are mostly based on my confidence level.</p>

<p>CR: 640-680
Math: 720+
Writing: 720+</p>

<p>I should do really well on my writing, but I’m afraid I may have messed up my essay, and so far, no one has been able to tell me either way. I said that society’s basic universal system of ethics prevents some people from having individual success. Did that answer the prompt, or did it ask for something slightly different?</p>

<p>Math 680-730
CR 750-800
Writing 750-800</p>

<p>I was hoping for a 2300+…but now I hope for a 2200+…</p>

<p>just playing it safe…</p>

<p>M: 760 (1 confirmed wrong)
CR: 690 - 730 (about 4-5 wrong)
W: 750 (1 or 2 wrong … forgot)</p>

<p>Does anybody have an idea of what I can expect to get in math if I omitted 8 questions overall and got about 2-3 wrong?</p>

<p>I swear that i put no error for like 5, i was so surprized, any one else have this</p>

<p>Okay, here’s the essay prompt that I had to answer.</p>

<p>“Does being ethical make it hard to be successful?”</p>

<p>I said that being ethical is necessary to being successful and gave examples of people that were unethical,and therefore unsuccessful. Example: I used WW2 and said that Hitler’s goal was essentially to expand German borders and create what he thought was a “perfect race.” I said that Hitler was unsuccessful in his goals because everything he did was obviously extremely unethical, forcing intervention by other world powers. Was this essay on topic? Cause I thought it was a really good essay and it completely filled both pages, so I really don’t want it to be off-topic. Any help is greatly appreciated.</p>

<p>I think…</p>

<p>M: 800
CR: 700-800
W: 700-800</p>

<p>Unless I really screwed the essay (which I don’t think I did), or made a whoopsies on the math, then I scored anywhere between a 2200 and a 2400.</p>

<p>I got 3 No Errors</p>

<p>There had to be more, in all 3 sections</p>