<p>for anyone with a question about the curve, this shows the curves from previous years for every section going from easy test (green, harsh curve) to hard test (red, generous curve)</p>
<p><a href=“https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.erikthered.com%2Ftutor%2FSAT-Released-Test-Curves.pdf[/url]”>SAT-Released-Test-Curves.pdf;
<p>I’m getting a bit paranoid about the first grid in on the non experimental math. The one about the donuts or whatever. Could somebody put up that question?</p>
<p>^answer to that was 5.4</p>
<p>I put outspoken condemnation. Would a guarded skeptic really write caustically about something?</p>
<p>And I don’t remember putting the purely mechanical thing as an answer. Any idea what that question was or what some of the other answers were?</p>
<p>5.4 would be incorrect, I made the same mistake on PSATs: it would have to be 5.40</p>
<p>They can’t make 5.40 correct and 5.4 incorrect… they’re the same number!</p>
<p>What was the question?</p>
<p>Also, here’s the exact question for the parallelism one:</p>
<p>She worked tirelessly to ensure New York historical buildings were designated as landmarks, protected by law, and adequately preserved.</p>
<p>Parallelism says the last part should be “preserved adequately” not adequately preserved. So it was NOT no error on that one right?</p>
<p>It asked, HOW MANY DOLLARS blah blah blah… 5.4 dollars is a legitimate answer. Unless there’s a rule that you have to write 5.40? Which I don’t remember ever having to do…</p>
<p>i put 5.4 not 5.40
they can’t not accept 5.4. it’s not like we rounded our answer? oh god. now i’m freaking out.</p>
<p>I got some decimal answer also so I think I’ll be fine.</p>
<p>Um, you definitely can have 5.4 dollars. It’s like I can have 3.5 feet. I don’t have to write out 3 feet 6 inches for it to be right.</p>
<p>@burntflapjacks you just gave me a mini heart attack. but i’m 99% sure you’re wrong haha.</p>
<p>yeah they probably won’t mark it wrong, I did a practice test that said something about it so I just remembered to put the full dollar value</p>
<p>Does anyone remember the writing questions about TVs in section 10? “during televisions early years, TV stations broadcast progamming until midnight, after which televisions will show a blank screen known as the experimental screen.” What was right</p>
<p>not experimental, but the answer was something like ‘after which television screens had gone blank’ or something because they indicated they needed the past perfect by saying ‘in the early days of television’. Taking out the had and saying ‘after which television screens went blank’ was designed to trick people because that is how we normally speak. This is incorrect because leaving out the ‘had’ means it just happened.</p>
<p>Does anyone know what a
-6 to -8 CR
-1 Math (Grid in)
and -3 Writing with 11 essay would be about?</p>
<p>I’m hoping for a 2200+, but it’s my first time and I don’t know if i’ll get it from missing so many CR questions.</p>
<p>How about the spot the error question about how an infinite number of planets exist?</p>
<p>actually @CAholder and @str1256, the answer was just the simple past tense “after which televisions showed a blank screen…” </p>
<p>adding “had” does not make it seem like it just happened, in fact it makes the verb past perfect, and indicates that the displaying of a blank screen happened before the broadcasting ended. past perfect “expresses the idea that something occurred before another action in the past. It can also show that something happened before a specific time in the past,” but this is not what was intended by the sentence. so we know it has to be just a simple perfect, “showed”</p>
<p>also @CAholder, there seemed to be more than a few things wrong with that sentence… but i think people agreed that the “were” in “That there exist a number of universes were…” because the clause serving as a noun in that sentence “That there exist…” is singular so were should have been was</p>