Have you taken it?
The administrator had to wake him up to continue. 
Indeed, it does seem slightly unfair, considering there's less objectivity in the grading of the essays in the new SATs. On the other hand, I think the new SAT will reflect the student's intellect more than the old SAT did. I took the SAT in December 2004 and this past January.dancer02248 wrote:I didn't take the SAT, but i took the Pre-SAT. It wasn't as bad as i thought it would be. But the version i took was the old version, and when i take the actual SAT, i'll have to take the new version. But the problem in my opinion with the new SAT is that it just depends on who grades the essay, there's no way that each essay will be graded exactly the same. That doesn't seem fair to me
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Fortunately, they had a clock in the room, but the proctor never really gave us interval warnings or nothing. So I was guessing the whole time as to how much time I had left. 
I thought that was how I was going to do, but I actually got a higher math score!The Top Crusader wrote:Indeed... I aced the English and reading comprehension and such, but merely adequately survived the math and science.
I didn't expect that! 
From all that I've heard I'm pleased to have taken the old version. It included analogies which I love. The new test doesn't have them I've heard. 
I also liked the quantitative comparison section which again I hear has been removed. 
Although I did miss one in that section which in turn lowered my raw score because I lost 1/3 of a point instead of 1/4. 
I reviewed for the test out of a book containing 10 previous SAT tests. In there I noticed that the missing section was always 3, 4, or 5 and never 1, 2, 6, or 7. On the test I took, there were 4 math sections and 3 verbal so I knew the extra section was math. Sections 3 and 5 were math of course but what gave it away was section 5 was the quantitative comparison and fill in the blank section. Since that's the only section on the test that is like that I knew it wouldn't be the one dropped. That left me with section 3... which I struggled with the most. What a relief to see it go! 
Since it was in the math section that more severely affected my score because the grading there is steeper due to having fewer problems. 
It's hard though when you know that so much can be at stake with that one little score. 
So I know I could have scored a little higher if I had paid attention to the clock. I got 1410 like you David O.Doesn't the ACT cover more subjects?Me wrote:I found the ACT to be harder. If I remember correctly, it focuses more on English skills (its been a year, so the memory may be fogged). The biggest difficulty is that they don't give you enough time. That is the only standardized test I have ever taken where I didn't finish at least five minutes early.
