SAT May 2012 Official Discussion

<p>what were the writing exerimentals?</p>

<p>also for the texting passage there was a question on “which acknowledgement did both authors make?”
was it that texting was making communication faster or young people gaining confidence</p>

<p>Did it say “resistance of disease”? What was the full question?</p>

<p>@xilinx
I got that both acknowledged that technologies made communications faster i believe.</p>

<p>@michael, same, I put that too. :)</p>

<p>Hi everyone…
The overall test was okay but I just have a few questions…
For the first reading section with the dad traveling, what were both the answers?
The first question was like the purpose of the passage…
And two of the answer choices were negligence and mannerism or seething
And the the other was what does the phrase “be happy. Love baba” mean…
And then also for the last question on the dancing passage, what did the girl not use questions for?
I put like lifelong something I don’t remember I just wasn’t sure about that one…</p>

<p>I thought both passages acknowledged that technology was thought to cause a decrease in writing skills, or something like that. I don’t remember the exact wording, but I don’t think the answer had anything to do with making communication faster…</p>

<p>^yea same, but i thought that it gave young people more confidence in their own writing forms
or something like that</p>

<p>what was the second to last question on one of the math sections whose answers looked like</p>

<p>a) -2< f(x) < 2
b) something similar and etc</p>

<p>and also what was the answer to it??</p>

<p>for “be happy, love baba”
i put it was criticism for a commonly used phrase</p>

<p>@colts89
-5<fx<3</p>

<p>Oh never mind. Ditto for what skylimits wrote.
I initially chose what michael put, but changed it. I’m pretty sure skylimits is right.</p>

<p>Both acknowledged that using “omg, btw, etc…” was bad.</p>

<p>@xilinx thanks</p>

<p>how you got that answer or what the original equation was btw?</p>

<p>@xillinx, theres controversy surrounding that answer — whether or not thats a commonplace expression.</p>

<p>I don’t understand why that’s not a commonplace expression…wait siddysid, what did you put?</p>

<p>The answer for the ‘be happy’ question was definitely ‘a mild criticism of a common expression’ - the narrator went on to add something like ‘as if that phrase could fix everything’ or something like that. Nothing imperative about it, and ‘be happy’ is not a blunt command, but rather a cliche and overused expression.</p>

<p>@hkim, i put mild criticism.</p>

<p>Simply because the SAT is infamous for including extreme answer options like harsh judgement. Harsh judgement is almost synonymous to defiance and she didn’t completely defy her father. Now…if the father had written that “he no longer wants to return back home” or something like that, i could see where harsh judgement could work.</p>

<p>did anyone remember choosing “, specifically” for a writing error because that part was a run on?</p>

<p>@skylimits @siddysid, ugh exactly my point lol.</p>

<p>@shihamin the answer was B or X=4 for that one an no, it was not experimental that was the real math version. (I had writing experimental and still had that question)</p>