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SAT crap
« on: July 19, 2010, 10:43:00 pm »
ok, i just got my sat scores in the mail today (they were hosted on a site a month ago, but i lost my password and they wouldnt tell it to me even when i gave my birthday, social security number, and exact registration number from the test but anyways...) and was somewhat meh'd by the results
math and reading were fine(740's) but they gave me a 640 in writing because "my essay was too brief"
the topic on the test was "is human companionship necessary for a happy life" or something along those lines, and my answer was basically "it is in the majority of cases as humans are a social animal, grouping together allows specialization, and for the most part people tend to develop psychological issues and such when separated from others etc. but that in a few cases there are people who experience the opposite effect(hermits and such) or who have some belief that they feel is more important than companionship and which in the end brings a net increase in hapiness(monks and such)
after that i had one page worth and really couldnt think of anything else to say...

so question to all you peoples: are essay topics usually better than this and is it worth retaking the damn thing just so some stupes will be impressed because i wrote a lot and used lots of big words?
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Re: SAT crap
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2010, 10:50:32 pm »
Do you know what your essay score was specifically? (from scale of 0~12)
General tip tho: they like the essay when you can back it off with a classical book or two :)
And in my point of view, the essay topic will be somewhere around there, just an average topic, not too hard, not too easy
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Re: SAT crap
« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2010, 10:54:44 pm »
I have not take the SATs yet (next year), but I remember reading somewhere that the longer an essay is, the higher the score, even if the shorter one is better.  (This is not an official rule - it just happens).  Do you need a higher score for your college?  If so, you can take the SAT again and use score choice and only focus on the writing part.
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Re: SAT crap
« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2010, 11:42:01 pm »
but remember that some schools (mostly prestigious schools like MIT, Yale, Harvard) don't take the Score Choice; rather, they look at all the scores.
And for longer essays, it is possible but if it is out of topic and irrelevant, then the length will have negative effect on the score too.
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Spoiler For funny life mathematics:
1. ROMANCE MATHEMATICS
Smart man + smart woman = romance
Smart man + dumb woman = affair
Dumb man + smart woman = marriage
Dumb man + dumb woman = pregnancy
2. OFFICE ARITHMETIC
Smart boss + smart employee = profit
Smart boss + dumb employee = production
Dumb boss + smart employee = promotion
Dumb boss + dumb employee = overtime
3. SHOPPING MATH
A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs.
A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn't need.
4. GENERAL EQUATIONS & STATISTICS
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
5. HAPPINESS
To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
6. LONGEVITY
Married men live longer than single men do, but married men are a lot more willing to die.
7. PROPENSITY TO CHANGE
A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.
A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, and she does.
8. DISCUSSION TECHNIQUE
A woman has the last word in any argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

Girls = Time * Money (Girls are a combination of time and money)
Time = Money (Time is money)
Girls = Money squared (So, girls are money squared)
Money = sqrt(Evil) (Money is also the root of all evil)
Girls = sqrt(Evil) squared (So, girls are the root of all evil squared)
Girls = Evil (Thus, girls are evil)
*Girls=Evil credit goes to Compynerd255*
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