Oct 2005 sat practice results... need advice

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<p>ok i just took a practice test: the 2006-2007 pretest which is the october test</p>

<p>second section math: 0 wrong</p>

<p>3rd section CR: 2 wrong (both on passage)</p>

<p>5th section: 2 wrong ( I believe one of the questions i got wrong was omitted from the test)</p>

<p>6th section: 2 wrong on math… 1 easy question wrong. i.e Three more than twice a number is equal to 4. What is the number? other was the last problem</p>

<p>7th section: 0 wrong on sentence completions… 7 wrong on the martin luther kind passage -_-…</p>

<p>8th section: 1 wrong… found the right x value… but forgot -1±1 = -2 not 0… bah</p>

<p>9th section: 2 Sentence compeletions wrong… didnt know definition of commodity… and bully was answer instead of cajole… and 1 wrong on the passage reading</p>

<p>10th section: 1 wrong forgot comparing 2 unlike things.</p>

<p>but yeah… i thought i was doing really good the whole test… thought i failed section 9 but got 1 wrong… amazing. and i was totally confused by the Martin Luther king passage…</p>

<p>so it was 740 math 650 CR 770 writing</p>

<p>meh…</p>

<p>anyone got any tips for avoiding martin luther king type passages… and could give me some advice for those? it was a really strange passage, and i know i can do much better given that i only got 2 wrong on the first section, and 1 wrong on the last one?</p>

<p>and anyone got any advice for feeling good about how your doing? because after i do a couple sections, i dunno i feel confidant and start worrying that im going to screw it up since im doing so good and it takes away from my concentration</p>

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<p>The pretest was harder than a normal SAT. Notice you can miss up to 2-3 questions in CR and still get a 800 – in the last June SAT, you could only miss 1. </p>

<p>I don’t know why you missed so many in the Martin Luther passage – I thought the passage with the two guys talking about Lucy was much harder (I didn’t figure out it was two guys talking until after 5 minutes of studying the passage; I thought they were two old women -__-). I think perhaps you couldn’t compare the two passages in the Luther passage effectively. Here’s a way for you to stay on task: you should answer all the questions pertaining to one passage and then move on to the questions pertaining to the other. After you have finished both types of questions, ask yourself this question: “what are the passages trying to convey, respectively?” This will help to structure your thinking before attacking the questions dealing with both passages.</p>

<p>I don’t know how you can keep up with your stamina because there’s a different method for everyone, but you really need to find a way to stop your concentration from drifting – once your concentration drifts in CR, you’re sunk.</p>

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<p>It is the October 2005 test. Search for the Official October 2005 SAT thread.</p>