@ALibertarian No, it was asking for the lowest y value of the absolute value of h(x). There’s a big difference.
@cityonanocean it was te one tags said Austen tried to hide her emotions
In that case, it would be 0…
but the letters were missing because her family members wouldn’t reveal them not because she was hiding something
and it’s not the other choice about her family members having suspicious motives because the answer has to be directly supported by the passage
@ASAP123
Yes I did.
I think that’s the correct answer. I put that and earlier in the thread others agreed it was the answer. @cityonanocean what did others get.
@AmbitiousOrange I just feel that if they are omitting these two sections, each question would be worth more. Given that if you get a few questions wrong, it would be a much harsher curve on the score.
@cityonanocean honestly the passage’s focus was never even on a biographical perspective.
At my school, we were discussing that question in physics yesterday and about a third of the class said they chose E) justify a biographer’s need to interpret information liberally, about a third said C) represent gaps of knowledge and the rest thought it was the choice about family members being suspicious
wish i remembered the fifth choice
@cityonanocean that’s really weird, I’m almost certain it was that her true feelings were trying to be hidden. Also, I dont k ow which page, but there was a discussion earlier on this, and people had said it was that her true feelings were trying to be hidden. Btw do u remember putting that people were most likely to have a bias when the encountered a familiar situation, while they are unlikely to be biased in an unfamiliar situation.
@16elir
Whether or not their decision is “ineffective” is debatable. The ETS and College Board have dozens of experienced statisticians and on their team to ensure that the curve fits in with the previous ones. Any of these statisticians knows infinitely more than any high school student taking the SAT who is probably overstating the worst possible outcome.
I think that expecting the College Board to go through a logistical nightmare of giving out 400,000 more exams is just plain unrealistic. Furthermore, performance across sections really doesn’t differ so drastically as many others have made it out to be. Even if one person does horribly on one section but perfectly on another, that person is an outlier from the general trend. Given the option of undergoing expensive procedures at a large cost or just throwing out sections at a high probability of minimal consequences, I would definitely choose the latter.
Realistically, we are probably all thinking too negatively about this.
I think the other choice was that the letters were not as intriguing as her novels?
At this point I’m really concerned about what a -3 would be on the math and the CR section. Any thoughts or estimates?
@Chrysanthemum14 what did u put for that Austen question?
what would -2 in math be?
@anBoa122 because CB took away 2 sections, if they are doing an SAT curve similar to the 2014 PSAT, a -3 will be about 690 M. -1 is 760 M…hopefully it won’t be worse than that. I will be very dissapointed at CB if this tests curve is bad.
We cant be too sure because in November SAT, -3 was a 670 M AND ALL THREE Math sections were counted…
So…are they actually averaging the number of questions we’ve gotten wrong and assuming that’s how we’ll do on the missing sections, or are they throwing them out completely? I’ve seen mixed answers.
They are throwing them out.
“We have deliberately constructed each test to include three equal sections with roughly the same level of difficulty. If one of the three sections is jeopardized, the correlation among sections is sufficient to be able to deliver reliable scores.”
@Qwerty568 CB will not count our answers for section 8 and 9. But they could do the prediction method say if we missed x amount in the first 2 math sections, we will miss y amount in section 8 math. We really dont know until CB fully explains how they are going to “equalize” the scores. They are being so vague in this whole process on how they will curve to make it like the previous tests.