SAT's

**pevergreen** · 11-01-2008, 13:02

I do get the feeling, from the few stories I have heard or read about the SAT's that the Australian ones seem to be a bit harder.

I do agree, rest up, take solace in the fact you can't really study for them, and its not the end of the world if your marks arent that great. Just follow what I told you in the PM's and you'll turn out just fine warman.

The two days of testing up here is the QCS (Queensland Core Skills Test. Yes, no T in the short version, no idea why)

If anyone was interested to see what we had to do, here are some previous versions of the QCS: http://www.qsa.qld.edu.au/assessment/2322.html

**naut** · 11-01-2008, 14:41

Originally Posted by pevergreen

I do get the feeling, from the few stories I have heard or read about the SAT's that the Australian ones seem to be a bit harder.

Yeh, that's the impression I got. For example the writing section was 70% multi-choice and 30% essay, and a brief essay at that. To be fair though there was a fair bit of time pressure though. In comparison my HSC English exam was two parts. Part 1 consisted of 6 medium length questions, a 4-6 page creative writing task and a 4-6 page essay. Part 2 consisted of 3 4-6 page essays. And to make matters worse, there's only 2 hours for each exam. Plus in total I had to have quotes for 11 texts, yes eleven.

**TevashSzat** · 11-01-2008, 19:09

Originally Posted by pevergreen

I do get the feeling, from the few stories I have heard or read about the SAT's that the Australian ones seem to be a bit harder.

I do agree, rest up, take solace in the fact you can't really study for them, and its not the end of the world if your marks arent that great.

Yeah, the SATs are pretty easy, but they are still really hard to get perfect one, very near impossible. Just to let you guys know, I had like 120+ hours with a private tutor and my writing was still horrible......I blame my 2 essay graders.

As for studying, yes you can study them. There is a tremendous industry that caters to the SAT preperation crowd. There are like over a dozen different companies with their own SAT prep books. Although some of them are just horrible, they do help alot especially if you practice enough.

For writing especially, alot of the stuff may not be that hard in terms of grammar and such, but one would need to do some of those problems as practice at least.

As for verbal, the vocab stuff is studiable. Just memorize vocabulary and it'll be really easy

**ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88** · 11-01-2008, 19:19

Came back a hour ago or so.... Writing I bomb, it wad first thing we did and I was slighty tired... Reading I aced with no problems, Math, some of it was ok, but most, eh....

**Thermal** · 11-01-2008, 20:24

mine were plain, took ages to get my results back just to find out i got level 6 in everything, there thinking about abandoning sats seeing as there not assessed there only there to show where you are in your core subjuects, there not that important, so dont worry if you mess up, just an experience before the serious exams really