May 2013 SAT Discussion Thread

<p>Does anyone remember a question about “numerons” (divisibility by powers of 3/5)? I have an extensive background in math problem solving and I am 99% sure that that problem was worded ambiguously. Hopefully the section that that problem was found in was an experimental one.</p>

<p>@my88keys the scores come out at 5 am eastern, so 4 am for you. Anyone know what 1 ommited -1 free response and -1 MC would be for math?</p>

<p>They’re said to come out 5:00 AM EST, so I think it’s 4:00 Central Time.</p>

<p>@Hendrix96</p>

<p>That would be around 720 - 750 depending on the curve.</p>

<p>I wish I did as well on math as you guys :/</p>

<p>Cool! Except maybe not, because if I got a sucky score, my whole day would suck.</p>

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<p>What?? There are only 18 of this type of question…</p>

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<p>What is ISE and IS?</p>

<p>What were the grid ins with the answers 1.5 and 6.7</p>

<p>IS is improving sentences and ISE is identifying sentence errors</p>

<p>1.5 was the one with the u shaped table and you needed to find the width, idk about the 6.7 one</p>

<p>During the essay:</p>

<p>Proctor: Okay, start the essay.</p>

<p>Me: Ah crap, here’s a hard prompt…uh…what do I do? I DON’T GET IT!!!</p>

<p><em>15 seconds later</em></p>

<p>Me: OH, I KNOW WHAT TO WRITE!</p>

<p><em>I write my intro and 1st paragraph</em></p>

<p>Me: Alright, this isn’t bad. And I have all this time to write my 2nd-</p>

<p>Proctor: You have 5 minutes left.</p>

<p>Me: ************</p>

<p>can someone please predit what a 1 omit, -3 in math would be?
and a 3 omit, -6 in reading?</p>

<p>-5 in math is probably high 600s or very low 700s at best.
maybe 700 in CR</p>

<p>What was the wording for the entrance/to enter question? I don’t remember the question at all lol.</p>

<p>Two questions to settle the debate:

  1. What is “it”- I am still convinced its sound
  2. What do the quotations do- exemplify previous statement</p>

<p>Also, was one answer that passage one finds it ok to lie in social situations while passage 2 doesn’t.</p>

<p>Updates (as per request of user “dark night”)
updated version:</p>

<p>Vocab:
Arcane
Obduracy
Disparate
Unnerving
Postulate
Celestial
Antagonistic
Unnerving
elective…marginalized
ordinary…fantastic
nonchalant?</p>

<p>Math:
120 tables
96 for hexagon
n+2/n
10 is left out
-4 is diagonal intersection
2-6 for parabola question
25-3 for sum of squares
$12 for sum of pencils/pens
I. only
4000
2^4x
48 for circle
3df
8Q
24 combinations for race
4 for 53 remainder question
3/5 red shirts
year 2004
20 for 50% question
60 was volume before marbles
48 for chord</p>

<p>Reading:
Exhortation
Acknowledge/ Dislodge
evocation
Financial security
display setting
sensory images
judgmental
the sounds represented beauty
days off</p>

<p>writing:
one should approach it
no error for sherman anti trust act
faulty comparison for sun
preeced for paris fashion show
its throat</p>

<p>experimentals:
math-> section w/lock question
reading-> section w/venice or one w/ video games
writing->person playing clarinet…large numbers?..top 40 radio station</p>

<p>Lol I remember thinking “proceed should definitely be precede”, but i didnt know that the writing section tested spelling/usage of words…so i put no error… Im so stupid</p>

<p>I thought it was sound too, only because the last sentence of the paragraph again gave reference to the sound that the things the author saw made.</p>

<p>@iwantcollege, something along the lines of,
“…grudgingly allowed him entrance into my sanctuary.”</p>

<p>Bumpity bump. <a href=“https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AqD13HJaqfaBdGN6WF9NT0V1dVhjS2U4T1VmOXBMd3c#gid=0[/url]”>https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AqD13HJaqfaBdGN6WF9NT0V1dVhjS2U4T1VmOXBMd3c#gid=0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Can someone say a few more problems from the math experimental section? I think I had a math experimental, but I have absolutely no recollection of a problem about keys and thats all I’ve heard about…</p>

<p>What was the irony in the science funding question?</p>