<p>MAY 2005 SAT TEST FORM THREE (writing experimental) </p>
<p>This is for the discussion of the writing experimental form. From what I hear, this one had the juan problem. But only discuss if you had 2 25 min, 35 question writing sections.</p>
<p>Discuss away.</p>
<p>any idea on which writing may be experimental and also discuss the JUAN QUESTION HERE.</p>
<p>some answers about the strict teacher</p>
<p>purpose was character sketch
verbal reproach was not needed
uh… similar to military.</p>
<p>this is the TEST with teh JUAN PROBLEM.</p>
<p>can someone reconstruct this “juan problem”? i forget what it was</p>
<p>if i remember right…</p>
<p>there are 3x people in front and behind juan</p>
<p>there are 9 more people behind juan than in front of him</p>
<p>how many people?</p>
<p>so i did… 3x = 9 + 2x</p>
<p>x = 9</p>
<p>9 (in front) + 18 (behind) = 27 + 1 (juan) = 28</p>
<p>what the hell was that mutiny passage about? that was the worst reading passage ever</p>
<p>The Juan question was something like this…</p>
<p>Juan is standing in line for a movie theater (or play or something) and he notices that there are 9 more people behind him than in front of him. He also notices that the entire line is 3 times the number of people in front of him. How many people are in line?</p>
<p>I think I solved it correctly… I did this</p>
<p>x+1+y</p>
<p>where x is the people behind him and y is people in front of him</p>
<p>x=9+y is people behind him
and x+1+y=3y is the relation between the whole line and the people in front of him.</p>
<p>If you plug in your x, you get:</p>
<p>9+y+1+y=3y
10+2y=3y
y=10</p>
<p>and then</p>
<p>x+1+10=30
x=19</p>
<p>19+10+1=30</p>
<p>I don’t think that the answer was 30, but that was general approach (if I got it correctly).</p>
<p>Can anyone explain the “x+1=r; what is (x+y)/x” (something like that), and the one about the 17 numbers and the five greatest and five smallest? Thanks.</p>
<p>Lbtg47: for what it’s worth, I put the same answers.</p>
<p>icedkiwis: yeah, I remember 28 being the right answer… but what do you mean by “there are 3x people in front and behind juan”?</p>
<p>awww why did the writing have to be the experimental one? why not the critical reading mutiny passage???</p>
<p>also, how can you be so sure that one of the writing sections were experimental?</p>
<p>For the Juan question I got 30.</p>
<p>For the one about the 17 numbers, the median doesn’t change.</p>
<p>There was a fill in the blank about virginia woolf, not seeing herself as the central figure in literature that everyone else did… what did you put down? i put marginal.</p>
<p>THere was a writing q about the plains… THough most of africa is barren plains, the highlands are highly populated and extensively farmed.</p>
<p>I remember that one gave me quite the great deal of trouble</p>
<p>for the question about the purpose of the passage i said taht it was analyzing a lifestyle and not a character sketch becasue it was more about the way the students lived in her classroom then about her. also, character sketch makes it seem a little comedic.</p>
<p>I put marginal.</p>
<p>The africa one was hard…don’t remember what I put at all.</p>
<p>Does anyone remember the SC question where the answer for A was maudlin?</p>
<p>it was marginal for the woolfe question and the answer for the other was maudlin which means overly sentimental</p>
<p>hmm thats a good point about that teacher question… but it did talk about how the parents complained and met with the teacher… which has more to do with the teacher than a lifestyle, no?</p>
<p>I don’t think that the focus was on the kids at all, it was just describing the teacher. A character sketch is just a description of the person.</p>
<p>I also put marginal… and what exactly was the ‘maudlin’ question? I believe that’s what I put… I didn’t know what it was but I was able to eliminate the others.</p>
<p>but syn- it said how the kids benefited from how strict she was- so maybe that means its lifestyle?</p>
<p>the benefit of her teaching style is only indicated in one sentence</p>
<p>The fill in the blank, that had something to do with drug dangers and wanting to put facts foward instead of fears, i put that the committee didn’t want to “sensationalize” but there was another answer choice i didn’t know</p>