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Maths SAT stuff

2022-05-05

Uh, why is the date so long ago?

I’ve been using prep scholar. I’m surprised that I’ve been studying for so long.

• Mistakes
  • authors use lines 1-19 to highlight (need more practice
  • the word “x” most clearly means
  • “space of purines would not be bigger than a phosphate gap” ah okay you deserve that one. I guessed it because I didn’t want to read the essay
  • which thing is most consistent with the data - “the length of the things vary” i obviously knew that they didn’t vary but I still said it did anyway. Should focus on the first bit of the explanation more than the second. I think i also missed this because I didnt read the section
    • DO THE READING TASKS ABOUT SKIMMING AND READING STRATEGY
  • “it is within sight of heroic things” - english 35. Just because (I NEED PICTURES)
    • ![[Pasted image 20220505205027.png]]
    • Just because one of them is sketch doesn’t mean the other is somehow right. But how would I have gotten it anyway?
    • Okay that was BLATANTLY in the text I have no idea how I missed that, and no idea how to fix that. Actually read the text? But I neven underlined it????
    • ![[Pasted image 20220505205259.png]]
    • Okay I think I didn’t actually read the text here either.
    • I dunno, it was kinda hard to tell whether it was talking about the future or the present?
    • yeah, I should’ve known “D” was wrong because there was no specific proposal. The SAT never asks you to infer.
  • and for my last few marks I was just running out of time. Overall lessons???
    • READ THE TEXT CAREFULLY
    • Actually read the text
    • Do not imply anything ever. The SAT seems to never ask you to infer anything
  • Practice
    • ![[Pasted image 20220506153903.png]]
    • Jesus, also have to be immune to “true” beauty
  • Grammar
    • Not obvious to me how I could’ve gotten 9 right
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      • Every point I lost in grammar was because of word choice. Obvious solution: grind that then I get a tonne of points for free.
  • Maths Calculator
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    • Stupid stupid mistake. How did I miss that angle? Should I grind a few angles questions?
    • I think this might be ratios. I don’t really get this, need to either ask someone or do practice ratios questions![[Pasted image 20220505212209.png]]
      • Grind ratios questions
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    • inequalities question but it was a basic misunderstanding
    • I only moved up to 740 maths from the last time I did it, which was 700. It’s a pretty easy test though.
    • fewer vs less than???
  • Maths no calculator
    • Thought that 0.6/0.15 = 2/3 instead of 4
    • I didnt actually do this question, not sure why i didn’t go back ![[Pasted image 20220505213139.png]]

Today: order of easieness

• Any english stuff

• practice on reading questions

  • practice: reading science technical stuff (khan academy?)

  • reading closely

    • is this really the only point I fucked up english?

• grind advanced algebra stuff?

• the word “x” most nearly means. Use the word choice thing

• Lessons on reading strategy with skimming

• Recap: The Strategy for reading closely questions

  1. Read just the question.
  2. Find the answer in the passage.
  3. State the answer in your own words.
  4. Eliminate with “What [ ]?”.

I wanna do another practice maths section, then grind a tonne of english.

Oh yeah, we find out our atlas things today.

• Stuff that should go in a quiz
  • Grammar: Convential
  • grind some advanced algebra stuff
  • Ratios
  • Angles questions
  • big picture

More practice

• ratios
  • oh wait, i didn’t actuallyg et this wrong. it’s just that 120 / 5 = 24
  • my multiplying and divisiona and subtraction and basics are terrible.
• this one got me ![[Pasted image 20220506164010.png]] need to do more practice of it
• inferences seems easy
• stuff with quadratic equations need to practice ![[Pasted image 20220506164130.png]]
  • ah, i just didn’t read in the question it said that y is greater than 0
  • That was cool, had no idea you could do these types of additions ![[Pasted image 20220506164546.png]]

More practice with systemf of linear equations:

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• got this wrong that was very much on the edge

I definately need to do coord. geometry, non linear functions. It’s basically all new to me. I should really trust uplearn. Every one I’ve clicked ended up actually indeed being new to me.

Yeah, I knew that “moral decay” wasn’t included in the passage. I thought that “priveledges of citizenship” cancelled it out more than x of y did.

I was like “It never says women suffrage is inevitable. It never says that.” it was in the very first line. HOW DID I MISS THAT? would i have got this if i reread the highlighted parts? I mean, it doens’t excactly talk about it a tonne

Okay, are these enough questions for a quiz? Me thinks so

I need to practice a LOT of algebra, at least to get VERY comfortable with stuff like -7 * -7 equalling 49

I supposedly need to review my answers for that thing, but there’s no time.

If I could do it all again, I would trust prepscholar more, and just grind through whatever they told me to do.

when anki not syncing

this is the worst possible time for this to happen… hence it’s happen

Analyzing Multiple Texts Summary

• Analyzing Multiple Texts questions are the last few in the set of questions following paired passages.
• They generally focus on structure, purpose, and perspective.
• Take on paired passages one at a time, then go on to the multiple texts questions.
• Find evidence of agreements and disagreements between the passages.
• Make sure your answer has evidence in both passages.

Good luck on the Practice Quiz!

2022-04-28

Okay, that test was actually easy as fuck and I full on lost a bunch of marks for no reason, so nothing at all to worry about.

2022-04-27

[ ] Quadratic formula questions. Brute force a tonne to be able to recognise what needs doing [ ] linear equation word problems

I am actually really curious if I’d get all the practice ones right I think after this I should do all the questions in this section again. I’d probably get a few wrong actually

when I don’t know how to make flashcards of it, or I think my flashcards would be super general, my instinct is to give up and just do a bunch of practice questions

2022-04-25

I spent too much time working on trig. Way too much time. I need to spend time increasing my points by going over large swaths of types of questions and rapidly making cards, not getting super deep into one topic.

I’m not necessarily sure it’s about going faster, it’s about getting the questions right.

Before

Am noticing while I’m going over these questions: I’m not remembering why I got them wrong

• Lesson: You can’t make flashcards over what you got wrong if you don’t remember why you got it wrong. Do reflects as soona fter doing the thing itself as possilbe

One of them: passport to advanced mathematics

Right angle trigonemtry, I wasn’t remotely going to get this one’

Okay, gonna revise [ ] polynomial factors and graphs - NOOO what question was this?? I need something more specific [x] Right angle trigonometry - Okay, I learned some of this but there’s a LOT more to be learned and practiced here. - Okay, did a TONNE of this, think I may be at the point of dimishing returns. is SUPER FUN! Twice I thought there was a new rule I didn’t know about to show up but NOPE! - And time flies SO fast when I’m doing this. [ ] polynomial remainder theorem