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The New SAT

by Joey deVilla on Sat 07 Aug 2004 02:26 PM EDT | Permanent Link | Cosmos

The SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) is an American standardized test used as part of the criteria for admission to colleges and universities. There's a new one for 2005 and MSN has a sample test made up of 8 math questions -- how would you fare?

I got a perfect score using only a piece of scrap paper to keep track of the addends and subtrahend in question 6.

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Re: The New SAT

by The Redhead on Sat 07 Aug 2004 10:20 PM EDT | Profile | Permanent Link

Six of eight, not bad, considering I've forgotten everything I learned after geometry. If indeed I learned any of it. I didn't do my Princeton Review techniques as well as I should have I guess (I took a class and then taught them for five years!!) but that was all before they made the math difficult at all. I got a 760 math in high school, before recentering (when they updated the scoring - making it easier - so 1000 total was actually average again, to simplify). I am a true believer in "SAT scores only tell you how well you take the SAT."

Re: The New SAT

by Eva on Sat 07 Aug 2004 10:53 PM EDT | Profile | Permanent Link

Everything correct WITHOUT scrap paper!
It was easier than the GRE. Actually, no, the math part of the GRE was pretty easy too.

Re: The New SAT

by PICxpert on Sat 07 Aug 2004 11:01 PM EDT | Profile | Permanent Link

7/8 = 87.5%

Probably would have been better had I actually fully read the questions.

Re: The New SAT

by MacDara on Mon 09 Aug 2004 12:25 PM EDT | Profile | Permanent Link

I got 6 out of 8, only used a calculator for one. Considering I got a D in higher level Maths in my Leaving Cert (equivalent to A-Level Maths in Britain) four years ago, that Maths was my worst subject, and that I haven't gone near it since (excepting the logical algebra I used in philosophy at uni), doesn't that kind of reflect badly on the quality of the American education system?

Re: Re: The New SAT

by MacDara on Mon 09 Aug 2004 12:27 PM EDT | Profile | Permanent Link

Make that four years five years ago - see, that's how bad I am at maths.

Re: The New SAT

by Jason Slaughter on Wed 18 Aug 2004 11:40 AM EDT | Profile | Permanent Link

Either you guys are *really* bad at math, or they've change the page, because there are only 7 questions there now, not 8. :) I got 7/7 myself without a calculator or even scrap paper, but then I've always found highschool math to be quite easy. Now integration? I'm more than a little rusty ;)

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