March 2009 SAT discussion

<p>Bekindrewind: I completely agree and understand. I too am in BC calculus; however, it doesn’t affect me THAT much. Just review elementary geometry concepts and your golden.</p>

<p>Earngator: I think you are confused. The hypotenuse was 8 (according to some geometry theorem) … From there just use pythagoras equation… 4^2 + x^2 = 8^2… pretty sure I’m right</p>

<p>Does anyone remember questions from the Zubin passage?</p>

<p>lol yankeedoodle! I also thought the passage was about that indian dude being a God when I first started reading it too.</p>

<p>I thought the math section was easy overall, but i didn’t get to check my work properly in one section.
Writing was good, But im unsure on that question with the desert
Although the dessert is barren and lifeless, the landscape is strangely beautiful.
something like that, I put “the landscape” is incorrect, still not sure.</p>

<p>Also, did anyone have a passage about a feminist writer who breaks conventions and supports her family?</p>

<p>I think that was my experimental.</p>

<p>Ok can someone restate the problem i cant remember.
Also, people tell me what you think u got? score wise, i wanna see how positive u are.</p>

<p>Reading: Fell apart near the end and had 4 sections…not amazing–>probably high 600s low 700s unless i’m lucky. def my hardest section</p>

<p>Writing: my essay seemed solid and the writing q’s seemed a lot easier than the January test</p>

<p>math: i think i got a perfect, which wouldnt be saying much because of my 790 in january. but hey i’m a math/sci kindof person</p>

<p>id say</p>

<p>800 math, but good chance i made some stupid mistake
800-770 writing
and my cr is either 750+, or totally phailing
depending if that feminist writer passage was the experimental (i hope it was)</p>

<p>I think the ans was 64
bc the rule was f(4) = 12 and that means 2^2 + 2^3 = 12
so f(16) should be 4^2 + 4^3 = 64</p>

<p>and the triangle one hypotenuse was fer sure 4sqrt3
it was a special right triangle!</p>

<p>I just hope I got min. 600 for each section…I’ll be so sad if I missed the 600 math mark by like…one question… ;-;</p>

<p>i had a CR section as an experimental. and i hate CR :[ it just drains my energy when i have to do it, i prefer so much to such do a math or writing. For those that did not have CR as experimental what was the first CR section you had about? there was 2 sections of CR with 8 Sentence completion, 2 short and 1 long passage. One of these was about a boy dusting a sawmill or something. Was that the experimental? i forgot what i had the first one as…</p>

<p>im in a similar position but im not as sure as you are. maybe like 10 pts less for each section compared to you :)</p>

<p>the answer to f(ab) question was definetely 24. </p>

<p>f(ab) = f(a) + f(b), and we let 4 = a = b, </p>

<p>we get f(16) = f(4 x 4) = f(4) + f(4) = 12 + 12 = 24. =P</p>

<p>geologists…4^2 + 4^3 is not 64…it’s 80. </p>

<p>I had the rule as this tho…f(4) = f(2) + f(2) = 2<em>3 + 2</em>3 = 12 and f(16) = f(4) + f(4) =. 4<em>3 + 4</em>3 = 24</p>

<p>Idk which is right however</p>

<p>Lol shark we posted at the same time</p>

<p>Ugh. I was stuck between atonality and mellifluous. And I think I put atonality.</p>

<p>I think that the question u guys are talking about is part of the experimental, i dont think i got that question.</p>

<p>The question about f(16) was definitely 24.
The answer for the verbal question wasn’t atonality, I’m pretty sure it was mellifluous.</p>

<p>Anyone know what the experimental section would be if after the essay my first sections were math, reading, then writing? After that I really don’t remember what happened!
I thought that overall this test was harder than the practice tests I’ve taken. For the writing section I got 3-4 for each section that didn’t have anything wrong with them, which kind of scared me. Anyone else have this?</p>

<p>Also does anyone know the answer for the one that was like “Her research is purely __<strong><em>: she something (don’t remember exactly) to her more </em></strong> colleges.”</p>

<p>What was the answer to the one (Section 10) where it was like: </p>

<p>“Simply by flouring…” </p>

<p>the answers were like: </p>

<p>you can
can make </p>

<p>I can’t remember…</p>