<p>How should you pace yourself on cr and math?</p>
<p>I mean should I do the long passage first or the completion first, and how many minutes should I spend on each</p>
<p>@belly for the most part, you should do the questions in order that it’s given. I’ve tried different techniques and I will say that I don’t know anybody that’s done the sentence completion questions after the passages. You should take practice tests to see how long it takes you on each section. Once you score really well, continue taking practice tests while giving yourself less time so that when you take the real test, you have plenty of time to go back on questions you weren’t sure about.</p>
<p>silverturtle, heh sry but I have another question. First off my high school isn’t prestigious and it hardly focuses on SAT preparation. In my class I am ranked 2 out of 170 students; however, I only scored a 1970 on the SAT (this is assuming I don’t raise my score in Oct. / Nov.). Surprisingly I only know two other people in my class that received a higher score than me. Is it true that colleges will look at the average SAT score in a high school, and since mine is pretty high compared to my classmates, I’ll have some leverage in acceptance to top universities? OR do colleges compare you to everyone else in the app. pool with no regard to high school status?</p>
<p>^I know you addressed the question to silverturtle, but I think I can help you out here. Top universities have no access to the SAT scores of your classmates, with the exception of students who actually apply to said colleges. So no, they do not view your SAT score in context with your classmates’. Unfortunately, your SAT score will be evaluated within the context of the university’s entire applicant pool.</p>
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<p>He or she would be considered URM. </p>
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<p>Yes, this is how I did it. It’s difficult to offer specific numbers, because different pacing techniques work for different people; experimentation is key.</p>
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<p>One’s high school is used to provide context to extracurricular opportunities and course selections and grades. Test scores are valuable because, in general, they offer a standardized metric of comparison among all the applicants. Indeed, one’s performance on the SAT need not be impacted by his or her high school: little background knowledge is required, and effective preparation can be done independently. Nonetheless, I have heard mixed responses from admissions officers on this. It seems that, for some colleges, coming from an under-performing high school may lower the score expectations slightly.</p>
<p>In any case, it is best not to presume this and instead strive to do you as well as you can on the test.</p>
<p>Silver, is guyanese considered URM? Let’s say an even mixture of white and guyanese.</p>
<p>Thank-you :)</p>
<p>^^ lol, google it</p>
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<p>Yes, I believe so.</p>
<p>Is the archive of question of the days legal to use? Does college board know about this, and will I be in copyright trouble if I used the archive?</p>
<p>I have a couple of questions.
1- Do top colleges (Ivies, MIT, etc) look at extracurricular opportunities in context? Because my school definitely doesn’t offer many opportunities for ECs - in fact, the school-offered EC’s probably top off at 5-6 (student council, drama, yearbook, school magazine, and this one countrywide competition) and I’ve been in all minus the drama and SC, and plan to be in the latter next year - possibly drama too. I also have quite a bit of other ECs on the side (done myself), but my EC list no doubt pales in comparison to [most?] others.
2- Would an applicant from my same school [same class] with a higher GPA (albeit lower SAT scores so far) lower my chances to get in to a college we’re both applying to?
Normally I wouldn’t ask that second question, except I come from a country with like 2 applicants accepted per year into each top college (i.e. like 2 for Harvard, 2 for MIT, or something like that). Countrywide. So I’m just wondering.</p>
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<li>Yes- but top applicants use their community to start initiatives,…etc</li>
<li>Nope. They do not compare applicants, but it is wiser to raise your GPA.</li>
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<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>Is the archive of question of the days legal to use? Does college board know about this, and will I be in copyright trouble if I used the archive?</p>
<p>^Please do not post the same exact question twice. And no, CB doesn’t care if you use the archive of Question of the Days. Each of those questions were released for free by CB at some point anyway.</p>
<p>Is “the reason why (something happens) is that…” grammatically correct or I should simply say “the reason that (something happens) is that…”?</p>
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<p>Although applicants are not pitted against each other, if someone from your school has a higher GPA and applies, it will hurt your chances a bit.</p>
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<p>You’ll hear different answers to that, so it’s best to be safe and go with “the reason that.” However, “the reason that…is because” is always wrong.</p>
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How so? [I mean what’s your reasoning behind this answer?]
I also have an extra Q: Does being from a country with such a low admittance rate [1-2 per year, 6 UGs are there total] make applicants from my country URMs?</p>
<p>going over the section?
OKay here’s my dilemma
I time myself down to 20 minutes, but still wonder if I should use only 15 and leave the last 5 for checking, and hence 10 when it comes the actual test?
but as of now I still struggle to finish the section up in 20 minutes, and when I go over I have to start from the beginning. Should I do it? do you guys do it? do you do it, silverturtle?</p>