<p>Hey… I took the December SAT today, and was confused about a few of the questions asked: </p>
<p>1) The essay question was loaded… </p>
<p>2) One of the roatation questions resembled a swatstica(sp?) (You rotate 90 degrees)… </p>
<p>Any comments?</p>
<p>Bump It Deal</p>
<p>i didn’t take the test today but just wondering, what was the essay topic? was it worse than november’s?</p>
<p>Yeah I saw the swastica…bit of a ***.</p>
<p>I don’t know how to best describe it, but you had to rotate the y axis counterclockwise to become what was the x-axis, if you use plane terminology. Originally it was the top side which was completely flat; this becomes the left side once the original is rotated. There were two answers that had the left side completely flat. The second thing you had to look at were the rectangular cut outs (if you view it as originally being a square), where one is on the top, and the second is on the bottom. They should have proceeded each other, with the top first (I believe) and then the bottom, with only a small gap, rather than a full rectangle sized gap.</p>
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<p>That is a representation of the relevant parts of what it should have looked like after it was rotated. The blue line is that which was once on top and the red rectangles are the “cut outs.”</p>
<p>I hope I got the question right, otherwise this was entirely pointless :)</p>
<p>1) Not really.
2) Somewhat, but not quite. Besides, it was more like the Chinese version of the swastika than the Nazi (tilted) one.</p>
<p>essay topic was “knowledge of the past useful?”</p>
<p>Lawl. I was like “o_o; this is so easy. this is like a logic/IQ question, not a SAT question.” And I think it is; don’t IQ questions ask you to flip shapes and match colors to see how good your spacial reasoning or ability is? I was laughing (quietly in my head) when I saw it. XD</p>
<p>Luckily, we were discussing in my ToK class how useful history is and why it’s important just the day before I took the test (actually, this whole week really), and we’re reading a book on history (Guns, Germs and Steel), so I was pretty confident on my essay. ;o I used the germs part of the book for my first half of my essay. Heh.</p>
<p>jared diamond has written another book. i bet you are reading him for apwh.</p>
<p>chinese people don’t have a swastika btw - a swastika in china would be an image borrowed from hinduism. </p>
<p>and it wasn’t the nazi symbol. if you couldn’t even tell what form it was why are your panties all in a knot.</p>
<p>APWH is sophomore year for our school, and optional at that; I chose to go the AP art history way. I might check that other book out though, after I’m done with Guns, Germs, and Steel.
I’m pleasantly surprised at my ToK class, cause while my teacher is a total pervy pedophile, we read such interesting books in class and have really insightful discussions.</p>
<p>._. That symbol is definitely not a swastika. WTH are these people getting swastika from? I was in the middle of drawing the picture in photoshop, before my mind started mixing the original and my answer together.</p>
<p>i don’t really like jared diamond that much.</p>
<p>the weird turning 90 degree shape thing was somewhat easy right?? just look at the shape and make it turn 90 degress? so it would be i think “D”. Umm the essay did you guys think it would be okay if i said history was a moral and “lesson to be learned” kind of subject. I used the civil war and communism scare to tell how we should not follow these things. Racism for one in the slavery system (althought there were many other things besides this), and i said how it reflected the future about racist jokes and other. About the communism i said that they shouldnt trust people phoning their neibors in about scares and and having people check the subject because they suspected him as a communist. Hopefully i did okay on that =(.</p>