<p>From email: </p>
<p>“Your inquiry has been forwarded to the appropriate test specialist, who will be sending you a written response within 10 business days.”</p>
<p>Hopefully, the response will be adequate and will resolve this question.</p>
<p>What did you write in your e-mail? Did you articulate your thoughts well? </p>
<p>In any case, I hope this obviously controversial question gets thrown out.</p>
<p>Well if it turns out to be vehement I don’t hope it gets thrown out… Haha.</p>
<p>Anyhow, good work cortana.</p>
<p>im hoping its vehement…thats what i put…pretty darn sure i did…</p>
<p>Crossing my fingers for vehement as well…</p>
<p>However, the caustic camp put forth a pretty compelling argument for caustic.</p>
<p>Thanks for helping us all out, cortana!!</p>
<p>Do they ever really just…throw questions out?? I mean, tone questions are always slightly subjective, but they’ve managed be put in every SAT, along with the SATIIs/APs, so I kind of doubt that they would just say, “oh, that question was a little too ambiguous, we’ll take it out.” Especially if a lot of people got the correct answer.</p>
<p>Eh, I thought it was pretty straightforward anyway. Caustic was too strong – vehement wins! :)</p>
<p>If anything should be thrown out, it should be the one and only diction question in the writing section… I mean really. I was like, that HAS to be corroborate, but they don’t put stuff like that on the SAT, do they?? Since it’s, you know, a grammar section</p>
<p>No problem guys 
And I think I worded it well. Only problem is that I couldnt remember my registration number and the exact question, but I said that it was towards the end, around 16-20.Anyway I think all I had to do really was to identify the question and why I and many other students had a problem with it.</p>
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<p>Yes, the SAT does do that. There was a question on the October 2010 PSAT that was the second to last in the writing section and the sentence contained the word “insured” however it was an error and should’ve been changed to “ensured.” I got that one wrong unfortunately.</p>
<p>Did CC reach a consensus on the New Zealand question yet?</p>
<p>^ Yeah! “When” is the correct (or more correct?) choice.</p>
<p>SheepGetKilled talked to his/her Latin teacher, who said “when” caused a dangling adverbial statement, or something along those lines.</p>
<p>^ I too agree now that “when” is “more incorrect” then “had/has.” drats! im very sure i got every other writing question right :</p>
<p>how is it?</p>
<p>The answer is caustic. If either the answer turns out to be vehement or the question is thrown out entirely, I will chop off my nether regions.</p>
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<p>Don’t say that… Both are plausible answers. I put caustic as well but I wouldn’t be surprised if the answer turned out to be vehement.</p>
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<p>Haha you’re wrong…</p>
<p>Caustic too strong? How about vehement? Isn’t that also strong? Vehement incorporates emotion. Caustic is bitter and critical, caustic is definitely the answer. Vehement is too easy to guess.</p>
<p>It’s absolutely not vehement. I can assure you that. It will not turn out to be vehement because that is the incorrect answer.</p>
<p>I hope i get an answer from ETS. I didnt give them my registration number because i forgot, but i gave my name, address, gender, and test center. </p>
<p>In any case, I doubt I would be given the actual answer to that question but who knows.</p>
<p>Let’s meditate for 10 days and come back to CC…:)</p>
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<p>For what it’s worth, a CC member e-mailed ETS about a disputed PSAT question from last year and was given the answer in ETS’ response. So you might get the answer. And if not, everyone that ordered QAS’s will get the answer.</p>
<p>And to throw in my two cents, I read the paragraph in question (impressive how CCers can go find the CR passages on the Internet) and I think vehement is a better choice than caustic. Obviously, I don’t know what the other 3 answer choices were, but vehement seems like the less extreme choice; therefore, I would have picked vehement. Not saying for sure that caustic is wrong, though. :P</p>
<p>it has to be vehement. I might get less than 700 this time and i got 740 last time.</p>
<p>It is absolutely vehement. Anybody who thinks otherwise is kidding themselves. You will see in a week or two.</p>