Anybody take the new SAT?

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Just curious.

I took it today. I totally botched the writing part – give me 35 minutes, and I can give you a genuinely good essay (that's how long we have for our in-class AP essays), but 25 minutes is just short enough to make me screw over the last two paragraphs. Dangit. I think I did fine on the math section though (only one problem gave me trouble), and the grammar section wasn't too hard, though the convoluted subordinate clauses in some of those sentences made it extremely difficult to tell whether a person was the subject or direct object.
 
Did you do all that "organizing of your ideas" beforehand? What a crock.

I'm only glad i can write pretty well without it.
 
Nah, I'm a year late. Only 25 minutes for the essay? I can't write a great essay in 40 minutes; I'd choke with half that time.
 
25 minutes for an entire essay? That's nuts!

Thank god Canada doesn't have the SATs or any equivalent test. Just one more thing for already stressed out university bound students to stress over.
 
Essay exams. I love them and I hate them. For history classes, I can get my point across well enough but it's generally not very long. In other classes, I draw a blank and get soooo screwed.

Anyways, hope you did well man
 
Drawing a blank on an essay exam is afwul. I couldn't even start my grade 9 essay exam. Thankfully though, there was a short story with questions about it for the other half of the exam which I did quite well on (keeping me from failing the exam).
 
Im going to hate taking those next year. i suck at essays, as they consist of 2 sentences. one giveing the answer to the question, and another complaing about have to write 5 paragraphs of a simple answer.
 
I'm dreading taking that test in the coming years. I just took my 10th grade writing section of the English exam. We had to write an informative and a narrative essay. It was relatively easy, and only took about an hour to do both. I can't imagine writing an essay in 25 minutes though. Especially if I don't have a clue what I'm writing about beforehand.

Hopefully people's grades will drop on the test and they will change it back to it's previous form. What kind of essay do you have to write? I'm better at informative myself, although I can write a pretty good narrative essay if the prompt is good enough.
 
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Hopefully people's grades will drop on the test and they will change it back to it's previous form.
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Don't bet on it. The cost of designing/redesigning these standardized tests is in the 10s of millions. Even if they screw it up, they won't admit failure and will continue with it but maybe make it easier. They did the same thing when I was in 10th grade. They spent I think 20 million designing a new test but due to some screw ups along the way, they ended up not even marking ours. It took them a few years to patch up all the errors and now the test is easy enough for a 6 year old to do with no probs.
 
25 minutes you call that a test? its hardly exhausting.

I'm unsure of the American education system but in the UK the big test is the GCSEs where tests can be as long as 2 hours or have more then one part.
 
25 minutes is the essay section. The entire SAT is about 4 hours long.
 
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Drawing a blank on an essay exam is afwul. I couldn't even start my grade 9 essay exam. Thankfully though, there was a short story with questions about it for the other half of the exam which I did quite well on (keeping me from failing the exam).
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I got 50% on my English Mid-Term Exam this year, I'm sitting at a low 58% average. :nervous:
 
Is the SAT a life deciding exam or is just a progress report of your schooling? What age do you take it at and what good is it for a CV?
 
The whole reason they made the new test is because it's much easier. They realized how useless analogies and all the work they took out was, and that very few teens understood it.

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Is the SAT a life deciding exam or is just a progress report of your schooling? What age do you take it at and what good is it for a CV?
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It helps colleges determine what kind of student you are. You can take it as early as your Sophmore year, about 14 years old. If you do good enough you can even turn it in then, but that's very rare.
 
hold on, hold on, hold on...
They made the test EASIER?!?!?!? It was already a bit too easy to begin with. My friends who were planning on going to US universities found it waaay too easy and didn't even bother preparing for it. Their grades weren't even that great (compared to some of the other students) with their highest marks being in the mid 80's
 
Well it depends who you are. For me they made it harder! I'm pretty good at math, or at least what they come up with, so the easier math problems dont help me out much. The thing that really makes me mad is the English and writing part. I SUCK AT ENGLISH SO BAD!! I have to take it in May, so i registered for it last week and haven't studied the practice tests, but could one of you tell me what the writing selection was about?
 
Yes, I agree. 25 minutes is way too short for an essay. Any essay of any length. You have no time to start to collect your ideas and organize them. I couldn't write a good essay in a week, I don't think I would even get through the introduction in 25 minutes. I guess its a damn good thing I'm already a Sophomore at Virginia Tech.
 
I didn't see a point to taking the SAT when I was in school, I took the ACT and got a 29 on it which is pretty good. I didn't find it too difficult but then again I studied for it for a couple months.
 
Yeah I wish I would have taken the ACT instead of the SAT. The ACT is a better judge of your intelligence IMO.
 
*bump*

Well, I got a 2040 on mine (Math: 700; Critical Reading: 680; Writing: 660). Not quite as high as I was hoping, but good enough that I might not bother retaking (I'm not planning on going to an Ivy League college or anything, so it's not a huge deal). My mom's making a big fuss over it though. :rolleyes:
 
What's average? I'm entering High School next year. Going to be quite a change. I'll probably have a culture shock.
 

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