SAT 11/2

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Anonymous wrote:My kid just came back and said he's cooked. This is a kid who has scored in the 99th percentile on every standardized test he's ever taken. He had more difficulty with the reading passages. Also currently in calc bc.

Will study more and take again. Also going to take a serious look at ACT now.

did he finish the math 2 module?
my dd is getting seriously depressed over this s...t

Yes, he finished math 2, but said he had to guess on the last 2 because there was no time left.

Mine said the same - ran out of time before he could do the last 2 questions in 2nd math module - but he said one of them was not multiple choice, so he didn't guess at that one. Also had the same issue others noted about a strange question set up that he thought was either a mistake or a "test" question for College Board. Don't different kids get different questions based on how they are doing on the test? He's hoping those were the only 3 he got wrong but who knows. He thought the verbal was fine.

Was the strange question in the middle of the 2nd math module or at the end of it? It could be an experimental question but so annoying if students spend too much time on it, potentially causing them to run out of time toward the end.

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My twins did not take November, but they've taken the SAT twice and I just wanted to point out a couple of things: First, there are different versions of tests being issued - I know this because my twins compared their reading passages and they received different ones. Second, there's a couple of experimental questions in each section and they mess with your kid. One twin spent the last 5 minutes on a question she thought was impossible and basically made a wild guess. Finally, one of my twins wanted to cancel because she thought she bombed it, but she actually did better than the one who thought she did fine, so I recommend that you not cancel it but try and be a calming presence for your kid and tell them that there's some luck involved and that's why most schools superscore. Good luck!

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Anonymous wrote:My twins did not take November, but they've taken the SAT twice and I just wanted to point out a couple of things: First, there are different versions of tests being issued - I know this because my twins compared their reading passages and they received different ones. Second, there's a couple of experimental questions in each section and they mess with your kid. One twin spent the last 5 minutes on a question she thought was impossible and basically made a wild guess. Finally, one of my twins wanted to cancel because she thought she bombed it, but she actually did better than the one who thought she did fine, so I recommend that you not cancel it but try and be a calming presence for your kid and tell them that there's some luck involved and that's why most schools superscore. Good luck!

I agree with this advice - my daughter thought she did terribly two years ago and ended up with a 1550. My son did not think today went well but you never know - just wait for the score and then decide what to do.

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It’s been a horrible Saturday

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Anonymous wrote:Junior in calc BC with A+, 760 on recent PSAT math, today HORRIBLE, only answered 11/22 on the second module, couldn't even guess on the last ones as were free response
how did your kids do? should we cancel before we get the score?

My daughter took August and October and said today’s math section was the easiest she’s had

If you don't do well in the initial section, the test gives you easier questions and your score tops out at a lower # so could be that.

Her previous tests were 790 and 770 so I don’t think that’s it.

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Anonymous wrote:Junior in calc BC with A+, 760 on recent PSAT math, today HORRIBLE, only answered 11/22 on the second module, couldn't even guess on the last ones as were free response
how did your kids do? should we cancel before we get the score?

Same. DD in Calc BC and couldn’t answer 1 free response at all and guessed at 2 multiple choice. She said the second math module was crazy hard and came out stunned. She also said she couldn’t even have studied to prepare for those and is convinced one had an error in the set up.

What do you mean by an error in the set up?

OP here, my daughter said the same, one wasnt set up correctly

Maybe it was an experimental question.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid just came back and said he's cooked. This is a kid who has scored in the 99th percentile on every standardized test he's ever taken. He had more difficulty with the reading passages. Also currently in calc bc.

Will study more and take again. Also going to take a serious look at ACT now.

did he finish the math 2 module?
my dd is getting seriously depressed over this s...t

Yes, he finished math 2, but said he had to guess on the last 2 because there was no time left.

Mine said the same - ran out of time before he could do the last 2 questions in 2nd math module - but he said one of them was not multiple choice, so he didn't guess at that one. Also had the same issue others noted about a strange question set up that he thought was either a mistake or a "test" question for College Board. Don't different kids get different questions based on how they are doing on the test? He's hoping those were the only 3 he got wrong but who knows. He thought the verbal was fine.

Was the strange question in the middle of the 2nd math module or at the end of it? It could be an experimental question but so annoying if students spend too much time on it, potentially causing them to run out of time toward the end.

Towards the end. Involved principal and interest and exponentials.

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My kid also didn’t finish the 2nd math module. Ran out of time.

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Anonymous wrote:My son also took it today. He says that if your kid didn’t finish, they may be using their calculator when it’s much faster to use desmos, the calculator website built into the test. He said there was one problem where it would’ve taken a long time to do by hand or with a TI, but he could do it in a minute with desmos.

I keep trying to get my kid to do desmos more, but they insist they need their own calculator for certain things. Drives me crazy

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Anonymous wrote:This makes me feel so much better. My 9th grader took it for the first time. He has accommodations but somehow it didn't show up on the blue book. Yet he was in the accommodations room. I'll have to figure that out on Monday.

He's currently in precalc. He said some of the questions were things he's never seen before. I was surprised because I thought the exam only covered through Alg II. Math is his strong suit and he didn't finish all the questions. He said the RW was fine and finished all the questions without rushing.

Why did your 9th grader want to take the official SAT?

DP
The kid is in precalc. The year after Algebra 2 is a good year to take it.

Nope

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^^Yeah, I'm not so sure that's the case any longer. My kid says a few questions on there made him glad he is taking stats this year (along with calc bc). Probably wouldn't have known the answers otherwise.

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Anonymous wrote:Junior in calc BC with A+, 760 on recent PSAT math, today HORRIBLE, only answered 11/22 on the second module, couldn't even guess on the last ones as were free response
how did your kids do? should we cancel before we get the score?

Unless the student is applying to Georgetown, the only college that requires all scores to be reported, there would be no reason to cancel.

Georgetown isn’t the only one. George Washington also requires you to report all sittings, and you can’t self report. MIT allows self report but says “Students should self-report scores from all exams taken, and MIT will consider the super-score in our review process”.

Where does GWU state this, exactly?

They don’t, that I can find. But they do require official scores (no self report) and when you send them, the College Board website is clear that GW does not participate in Score Choice. Your only option is to send all or nothing. It took my kid by surprise and made her wish she’d done TO. But the one thing GW does make clear is that once you submit your app you can’t change your mind about testing status. They should be so forthcoming about everything else.

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Anonymous wrote:Junior in calc BC with A+, 760 on recent PSAT math, today HORRIBLE, only answered 11/22 on the second module, couldn't even guess on the last ones as were free response
how did your kids do? should we cancel before we get the score?

Unless the student is applying to Georgetown, the only college that requires all scores to be reported, there would be no reason to cancel.

Georgetown isn’t the only one. George Washington also requires you to report all sittings, and you can’t self report. MIT allows self report but says “Students should self-report scores from all exams taken, and MIT will consider the super-score in our review process”.

Where does GWU state this, exactly?

They don’t, that I can find. But they do require official scores (no self report) and when you send them, the College Board website is clear that GW does not participate in Score Choice. Your only option is to send all or nothing. It took my kid by surprise and made her wish she’d done TO. But the one thing GW does make clear is that once you submit your app you can’t change your mind about testing status. They should be so forthcoming about everything else.

I agree that GWU requires an official score report.

However, College Board's information on which schools require all scores is very outdated. It routinely gives warnings about not sending all scores when using score choice for lots of colleges. College Board is not an authority on what the college requires. You can still use score choice to send to GWU. There's a warning from CB, but CB does not actually stop you from completing the score choice order.

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on M2 how many were mcq and how many frq?

thanks

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Anonymous wrote:on M2 how many were mcq and how many frq?

thanks

At least 8 of the 44. Maybe 1 or 2 more acc to DD. She said that there is no indication how many decimal places to include, which makes the FRQs tricky too.