May 2013 SAT Discussion Thread

<p>How bad do you think the CR curve will be?
Like how bad will it be to miss around 5? I feel like everyone’s saying it was easier than other times, so I’m getting worried.</p>

<p>Shouldn’t the SAT be a personal test? Like, shouldn’t the scores be determined by YOUR OWN effort and YOUR OWN answers and YOUR OWN score? Why is there a curve on the exam?</p>

<p>To get a 12 on the essay you literally have to write a horrible essay while filling up the entirety of the 2 pages. Sorry, but that’s the sad reality of it.</p>

<p>How do you think the cr curve will be compared to previous ones?</p>

<p>@testtaker101 what if you have big sized hand writing, lol?</p>

<p>@mash101 the whole idea of a curve is to right the wrongs or the ambiguities. The curve isn’t so tremendous so as to give those who got 20 wrong an 800, but to be more lenient to those who got 1 wrong on a question that may have been deemed more difficult than the average question on the sat. take the physics subject test for example, the curve there is EXTREMELY lenient where if you get 12 wrong you can still get an 800 because of how difficult that test is. To me, a curve, even if in the slightest of ways, is one of the few things collegeboard has done right in the past 10 years</p>

<p>Guys, this discussion needs to get pumped up again. POST POST POST</p>

<p>Can anyone remind me of the financial security question ?</p>

<p>I second that, I do not remember a financial security question…?!</p>

<p>Ugh, I totally messed up on that question you were discussing mash. I did some unconventional, arbitrary thing. I don’t even remember what I did but I found out the radius was 30 and everything; yet, I was too idiotic to use the Pythagorean theorem. If only the sat gave partial credit. <em>sigh</em></p>

<p>@everyone</p>

<p>the financial security question was over the painitng passage it was like “what sas the result of accepting the job?” answer were like squelching her desire to paint, financial security, disappointing her mentor and soemthing else.</p>

<p>What was the math question with the answer 60 was the volume before marbles?</p>

<p>@ayiti2012 its somewhere on this thread just search ‘marbles’</p>

<p>Also does anyone know how many ‘no errors’ there were between 12-29?
Is it definitely 3? Or 4?</p>

<p>@oldschoolby
i had 3. the japanese movie, sherman antitrust act, and president</p>

<p>Everyone said those 3, are you 100% it was just those 3?</p>

<p>Yup, pretty sure</p>

<p>What did people say for the question after the salsa passage that asked what the point of the last sentence was? Options were something with the word “novel”, reconcile, extend a metaphor, idk I forget. I changed my answer a bunch but went with the novel one because he/she seemed like he/she was making sort of a new point with the last sentence…but then again i dont really know</p>

<p>@goods37
I said extend a metaphor because it talked about how salsa added spice to the culture…or something along those lines</p>

<p>I’m pretty sure it’s to expand the metaphor.
Anyone remembers the writing question with “opposition against”? Isn’t it supposed to be “opposition to”?</p>

<p>For the square diagonal question asking what the x coordinate is can someone tell me how to do that?</p>

<p>Also for the 'how many times does g(p)=2 appear on the graph" can someone show me how to do that too?</p>

<p>Lastly the question with answers 2DF, 3DF, etc…; it was number 8 before the grid ins started, how were you supposed to do that one?</p>