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The New SAT

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.

Joey deVilla

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  • 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."

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

  • 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?

  • 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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