May 7 SAT I Test Form 4: Writing Experimental 2

Test Preparation
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<p>Here’s the place to discuss Form 4, which had a writing experimental. Topics of CR included : Short passages about food, passage about UFOs, story of female journalist about to give up career to marry a bag maker, story about Porcupine woman. Essay topic was “Does progress come from people with new ideas or old ideas?”</p>

<p>Odd this hasn’t been mentioned yet, I’m in California… sooo</p>

<li><p>What did people answer to the polygon question? (A paper is held over this polygon…)</p></li>
<li><p>On the grid-ins, what was the last question? (I wasn’t thinking straight, the proctor wouldn’t let me pee)</p></li>
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<p>the answer to 1. was 9, I don’t know about the last gridin</p>

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<p>ok yeah, I said nine, but i kept thinking that the angles X,Y being shown weren’t the entire angles in the polygon.</p>

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<p>I had this one. I was confused when people said the writing experimental had all these things that were not on my test</p>

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<p>Odd that very few people have posted… I keep thinking it was only administered in the Pacific time zone…</p>

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<p>Nope I’m in the eastern time zone</p>

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<p>I had all of that and I took it on Sunday (oops not supposed to give the same one on Saturday as on Sunday! guess this post is gonna be shut down now). Yeah I also got 9 for the polygon covered by paper cuz part shown was a quadrilateral so its angles had to add up to 360 degrees. Anyway yeah I also didn’t get the last grid in, and i didn’t get the paper bag question for the woman journalist. any feedback?</p>

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<p>i think i probably got all the questions about that paper bag lady although that reading passage was quite opaque…what particular questions do you have about it…anyways i screwed up on the math portion because i was so nervous…i ran out of time on the last math question section 9 and ended up hastily guessing wrong on the last two math problems which were the population regression problem and the cube inside the sphere when in all actuality they were very easy and i should have answered them right if i had been calm and not overly panicky</p>

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<p>just the question that said “people who wave paper bags at her are doing what?” I said teasing her about her fiance, but I wasn’t sure. Yeah I think I got all the other ones about her though. Was that cube inside the sphere 8r^3? And was the population regression 18?</p>

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<p>i put teasing her two and that should be the correct answer…your 2 answers in the math with 180 and 8rcubed are both correct…its funny how i guessed a regression of 320 and r cubed with barely reading half the question and just making a wild guess. its quite funny how for the regression problem -two of the choices were like the population increased and one was like the pop stays the same and the only decreasing choices were 180 and 320 so i chose randomly between those 2 and got it wrong…lol</p>

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<p>But for the last grid-in, the one about slope of -10, was there anything tricky? I don’t remember what was hard… Wasn’t the question, what would t be to make the line have slope of -10?</p>

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<p>i put 120, im pretty confident im right</p>

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<p>yeah, that’s what I put… but it seemed so elementary? It didn’t seem like it should be the last question in the section… Even if you messed up and thought it was -120 or something, you’d realize you couldn’t even grid a negative number…</p>

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<p>Also, on CR, the sentence completion: “The professor stressed an economy of expression…” Did any of you choose terse/ (somethingelse)?</p>

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<p>yeah i did the terse thing, but there was one SC where one of the choices was progenitor, anyone remember the answer? Also one where one of the answers was moribund, what was the answer to that one? Yeah I know not so specific but still…anyone?</p>

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<p>oh yeaaah… i chose progenitor… Something like “Billy Bob was a ___ of drumming, he paved the way for everyone after him?”</p>

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<p>I chose sparse,ornate for the one about economy of expression, i think the 2nd part of the terse answer didn’t fit</p>

<p>yea it was progenitor for that fill in as well</p>

<p>i forget which question morbund was for, but that was the wrong answer anyways</p>

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<p>sparse/ornate was an option? Darn… I thought my option was “terse/elaborate” or something…</p>

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<p>I guess no one really took this… darn</p>

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<p>I refuse to believe that only 6 people on CC took this version of the SAT! Come on, air your grievances, question your questions, provide answers, just POST people…</p>