November 2008 SAT Discussion for International Students

<p>No I don’t think it can be rigor. It’s always about the author’s tone, and the author felt that the editor’s were too scared to take a firm stance. The author didn’t view the editor’s as being obdurate in order to convey truly neutral news.</p>

<p>I can’t remember what the modulus question was but I do remember that one of the last math questions was “none”</p>

<p>is there a grid-in in math with the answer like 10/3 T_T</p>

<p>Yes, I remember something like that</p>

<p>About that Shakespear question.
I firsly chose 2) description of court …
but then I changed to 1)
because 2) says only about court. It is not comprehensive enough to refute the idea of the one that it quoted.
But the one the author quoted mainly says because the play delineated detailedly and precisely about aristocratic life, so that must be the one.</p>

<p>If aristocratic life are widely written, then he cannot narrow it down to only one person.
And the straford shakepear can read the arictocrats’ life in the widely written books.</p>

<p>The modulus Q was the one with something1 modulus-something2 modulus=something3(>0)</p>

<p>Math Section</p>

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<p>I also think it should be timidity because not taking a firm stance indicates lacking in boldness. For the definition of timidity:
1 : lacking in courage or self-confidence <a timid=“” person=“”><br>
2 : lacking in boldness or determination </a><a timid=“” policy=“”><br>
[timidity</a> - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary](</a><a href=“http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/timidity]timidity”>Timidity Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster)</p>

<p>and in the SC questions this time all the easy words were actually the answers whereas the difficult words were the wrong choices.</p>

<p>anyone can explain the September 1 answer for oil change question T_T</p>

<p>@ccprofile: I think collegeboard was trying to discourage the fact that many prep books encourage test takers to choose the seemingly hardest words in the last SC questions. Similar pattern is observed in the US test!</p>

<p>Can somebody fully explain the Shakespeare question pointed out in post # 424?</p>

<p>The september answer: The question said that either 300 miles finished first or 3 months finished first, but which ever finished first, as soon as it finished, the car had to get a maintenance.</p>

<p>So bad I misread that question, I thought to 1 August the car drived more than 30000 miles, the table is little bit tricky and I can’t get 800 for math :(</p>

<p>@Flibb:I’m confused now. Was the Q saying 3000 miles or 300 miles? Post #424 is probably referring to the Shakespeare question in post # 377.</p>

<p>Any ideas whether it was 300 or 3000 and also which one came first the 3 months or the miles one?
@zero060891:Yeah the table was a bit tricky-it was in the form of cumulative frequency.</p>

<p>@ccprofile: I really confused the words in that question. I remember the car was fueled in 1 June.
The table is :
1 June 10xxx
1 July 11xxx
1 August 11xxx</p>

<p>so I think to 1 August the car drove more than 30000 miles. But it seemed that I misread the question :(</p>

<p>ok, can u guys explain to me that question with the answer: 10/3?</p>

<p>And the question for the answer 4(cylinders)</p>

<p>I think 3000 miles, definitely not 30000, as one of the values was 11000.</p>

<p>10/3 was a question with a line equation and they provided us a condition for which we needed to find x (I think)
the cylinder Q was the one with a diagram of two cylinders and we had to find the height of one of the cylinders.</p>

<p>ok… the cylinder Q, they gave the area of one of the cylinders right? if i’m not mistaken, we just need to take the given area divide/times with one of the given height?</p>

<p>I still can’t recall the 10/3 question. Is it a MCQ?</p>

<p>^The cylinder one is right except tht they gave us the volume
10/3 was a grid-in question.</p>