Question on SAT's - Coleman and company
 

I know I could google this, but I would rather get feedback from people who wrote them rather than the people who made them. And as most of you have seen from some of my post I have looked at different American universities.

In the SAT's what are the different sections based on? I know their is a section on math, just wondering what kind of questions to expect and the difficulty level on the math. I stress questions on math mainly because out of everything I'm bad at math the most, really bad.

If some of the questions are stupid, please do not forget I live in Canada, our system doesn't involve writing a entrance exam into a college. Also marks don't matter for me because they are pretty high, and when the American system adds 8% more to them, it looks well..all of my chances are based on my SAT scores. So comment on the SAT's

I remember math as being a lot of geometry, some algebra, and a little calculus. The other sections are verbal and writing (writing is new as of this year so I didn't have to take it). Verbal is like writing comprehension and analogies, vocabulary, reading proficiency, etc... I didn't think the test was that hard, I got a 1330 which is pretty good.

math...
pre-alg, alg/coor geometry, plane geometry/trig..........


english....
mechanics

reading...
literature, soc sciences

science...

There was no calc on the ACT iirc, but there was pretty much everything leading up to calc.

you have a wang in your sig.

oh yeah, lots of trig, and the only calc that I remember was maybe a little differential, or that might have been IB exams, i don't remember.

Was english a larger part of the exam rather than math?

I don't remember but I think the english has more questions because you can answer them faster than math because math you have to do all the calculations and stuff.

I took the old SAT's when it was all based out of 1600 points (800 for each section). They're both equally the same in value. Now they added a writing section I believe. No? Which pulls the total score to a 2400.

The math is pretty simple. You'd probably see one or two questions involving sin or cos or something like that. Not anything too difficult. I'm not the best person to ask. I never took those new ones.

Probably go to a american university after uol...


Thanks for the help though, moderators can lock now lock the thread, please.

There is geometry and algebra. There isnt any calculus on it (or at least problems that you need calculus to solve, you could use calculus for some). The math section is fairly simple, its all basic reasoning and the use of some formulas.

The english section is grammar and reading. pretty easy.

writing section is stupid, and doesnt matter.

is anyone else bothered by the fact that juju has a wang in his sig?

Not anymore. sleeping:

Jotun, apply to Williams College


http://www.williams.edu/

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2000 students oOo:

i had more in my highschool. incest.

I'm going to James Madison University.

I'm fairly sure of it.

sweet, another NJer.

i heard a lot of people from NJ go there, so i think its NJ friendly right? no rivalry or anything?

well, I'll say there are a lot of Virginians who are kind of weirded out by the amount of people from NJ and NY, but I wouldn't say it's hostile or anything. It's more like "Why the hell do you all pick JMU?" not "GTFO." There are tons of people from NJ and NY though, so you'll be sure to find people from near your hometown. My 30 person comm. class has like 8 people from Long Island...my other classes are probably 70% Virginians.

One of the most elite liberal arts colleges in America..

SATs are the devil.

don't see why they would base univeristy employment on one test...imagine if thats the one thing you fuck up in your life.

it's not based on the SAT entirely, it's also based on grades, extra curricular activities, etc..

another thing that should mean absolutly nothing.

why? both the SATs and extra curricular activities give an indication of how hard a worker someone is and how smart they are/what they know.

Some people are not from well-off parents and need to work during school instead of taking extra curricular activities...not everybody has time...and hell they are a waste of time unless it's a sport.

people who have to work to support their family during high school are generally not the ones going to college though...

Wow...supporting family i not exactly what I meant...I moreso meant sving money so they could afford school.

I don't know...Im one who hates debts and having no debts after uni is my goal...im one of the only ones I know who have no loans out yet...but ive worked my ass off.

ok, i get your point then. I still think the SAT is a good thing though, personally, I only did one extra curricular activity and it was a sport and I still got into JMU.

I did ask for this thread to be locked, zoner must be sleeping on the job. eek:

I see you have taken an interest to the NESCAC schools, Williams being one of them. My brother attended Tufts (another NESCAC school), and he loved it.

Living in Massachusetts certainly has its benefits in regards to education. Some of the best institutes of higher learning are in our area. Brandeis University is located where I live and although the culture there is pretty...odd...I've been looking into them because they grant merit scholarships and have small classes.

I haven't taken the SATs yet (I'm a junior), but I'm planning on doing so in the spring. I took the PSATs, however (which are supposedly harder than the SATs), and I scored around a 1300 out of a 1600 scale.

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