<p>Is anyone else starting to feel like the test itself wasn’t even that hard, and they’re just a moron? </p>
<p>Or just me? ■■■ I had the right answer to one of the math questions and then I erased it and put the wrong answer</p>
<p>@Mystic7 Me lol</p>
<p>Any last minute tips for Math so I can finally get this 800?!?!?</p>
<p>I have the PSAT tomorrow… I’d better not screw this one up too.</p>
<p>@Castigations
Read every question very carefully. I never do that and then I get the wrong answer because I didn’t understand the question :’(</p>
<p>Yea i misread rectangle as triangle for the perimeter question… don’t be me</p>
<p>The college board emailed me and asked me to either fax or email my concerns. Here’s what I put</p>
<p>Hello,
On one the math questions on the October 11, 2014 SAT, the question states that in numbers from 1-100 inclusive, if someone picks 10 different numbers which of the following MUST be true about the average?
A. It is not an integer
B. It is even
C. It is odd
D. It is more than or equal to 6
E. It is less than or equal to 96
A is not true because the average (arithmetic mean) could be an integer. B and C are not true also because it could be either positive or negative. D is not true because the average of the numbers 1-10 is 5.5, which is less than six. E is not true also. Although the average of 91-100 is 95.5 which is less than 96, it could NEVER EQUAL to 96. Choice E states that it could also EQUAL 96 which makes the statement not always true, since the question asks which statement MUST be true.</p>
<p>@jacktang23 Perfect! 
fingers crossed for this once esp. bc because are saying CR will have a rough curve </p>
<p>In response to some of the debate here:</p>
<p>(Family from Foreign country)</p>
<p>surprised or Happily obeying?
Most likely happily obeying. The sentence reads something like"as the car smell wafted in the air, we streched contendly" There is no evidence that they are SURPRISED by the roominess of the car. </p>
<p>(Human mutualism)</p>
<p>Is free-riding frequently obvious or helpful?
This article specifically states that shirking, or not taking on a responsibility in a group, is uncommon because it is so visible and there is pressure from others. </p>
<p>(Gymnast)</p>
<p>The author would most likely agree that…?
This was a tricky question. It is probably not that “she is more committed than others,” because there is only text evidence to support the fact that the girl beat her competition. “Candid” is probably the right answer here although I could not find DIRECT textual evidence that suggested that she was honest. She was frank in her words, but the speaker did not address this specifically. </p>
<p>(Math)
equal to or less than 96?</p>
<p>This question is NOT wrong because the answer choice said equal to OR less than 96. Either one is accounted for in this answer choice. Had the question said that the number must be equal to ONLY 96, that question would have been wrong. </p>
<p>(grammar)</p>
<p>Release OF is correct if the word said “release.” Relief FROM is correct if the word said “relief.” I do not remember what the word was, but the popular opinion here is that the word was “release,” in which case the answer was NOT “no error.”</p>
<p>They will let me in two days. </p>
<p>@jackytang23 i’m nervous for this, what do you think will happen?</p>
<p>@scarlettlovesivy they are at fault for this. Even if they are right I, and many others, feel that the questionwas too ambiguous. They should throw it out. </p>
<p>Can somebody explain their reasoning for Transitional experience over Turning point for the passage bout the Iranian family?</p>
<p>The passage talked about her experience in America. No where in the passage did it say her experience was a Turing point. You have to be subjective about those types of questions.</p>
<p>@jacktang23
Woah! Great analysis! </p>
<p>What about the last question for IP in writing part which is asking for author’s conclusion for the last paragraph?</p>
<p>What about the last question for IP in writing part which is asking for author’s conclusion for the last paragraph?</p>
<p>Pretty sure I put C for 35. that one about the roominess of the car is the only 1 i think i got wrong from that passage. I hate the question about the gymnast of how the author would feel about her. hard to find any evidence to back up one answer really well. probably going to be a level 5 question.</p>
<p>I think it was a turning point because the author states that ever since she came to America they have been traveling from place to place. Then she goes back and talks about first getting to America and getting the car so this is the turning point. From here on her life is driving from place to place in a new country because her Dad does not want to admit that their life in wherever they came from is over.</p>
<p>I put E for 35… I thought it was right though because it said that top athletes didn’t need to worry about the boredom problems like that…</p>
<p>If the question is exactly as @Jackytang23 wrote, it is perfectly valid. Less than or equal to, you only need one to be true for the whole thing can be true. Is 95.5 less than 96? Yes. Sometimes in math (but not in this case) there are many values for a variable and both being equal to AND being less than x will satisfy the conditions. For instance : 2 buses each carry 14 passengers. How many total passengers can be carried by these two buses combined? Less answer is any number less than OR equal to 28. That is the kind of thing that you guys are USED to seeing. But only one condition needs to be met in order for the entire thing to be true. Indeed, that’s why such statements exist. Clearly, median = 96 is false, but the other part of the disjunction is true (greatest mean is 95.5).</p>
<p>This is actually the kind of SAT question that makes me smile. (I’m an adult.) I love it because it tests exactly what the test used to say it did, reasoning. If you’ve ever studied logic as opposed to the rote procedure memorization that passes as math in many schools, you would have smiled too. They wrote it in words instead of symbols as a hint, even though it would still be correct even if written as </=. And if you haven’t studied logic, I highly recommend it. It’s buckets if fun. </p>