<p>Dude c’mon for the last time your math was experimental. No, you can’t get two grid-ins without one being experimental.</p>
<p>Alright, alright, just nervous is all. Thanks.</p>
<p>@lcmcb1 Yes! I do remember that one. That one was experimental </p>
<p>immasenior: According to the college panda, 800, 730, and 730, based on past tests.</p>
<p>@mizejonathan17 Thanks! I’m going offline for tonight.</p>
<p>I’d be happy with anything over 2250. Here’s to hoping!</p>
<p>Does anyone remember the QUESTION for the 2cx=y? I think I put -1/2 (because then -x=y) but I’m just now starting to think it asked for which is “not possible if x is not equal to y,” where the double negative screwed me over and is going to drop me from a 2400. Efffffff…</p>
<p>For anybody collecting test information I think I recognized one of the CR passages. It was one about a Japanese novelist talking about the connection between running and writing.
I’m almost 100% sure that it came from Haruki Murakami’s “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”.
Just thought I’d put that out there for keen minds.</p>
<p>It’s UNEQUIVOCAL ENDORSEMENT and here’s why: The passage said - “After more than 50 years of research and practical experience - as well as data evaluation by the US government, committees of experts, and national and international health organizations - the verdict remains the same: fluoridating community water supplies, at optimal levels, is an effective and safe method for preventing tooth decay.” UNEQUIVOCAL - without doubt and therefore certain. So the answer is UNEQUIVOCAL. (An ETS employee would be fired for posting answers on CC)!</p>
<p>I found the North Dormer passage. It is on pages 5 and 6 in Summer by Edith Wharton. Here is why the answer is INEVITABILITY: “If ever, in the purest summer sky, there trailed a thread of vapour over North Dormer, it drifted to the Mountain as a ship drifts to a whirlpool…” So the metaphor expresses an INEVITABILITY.</p>
<p>@Momof3UPENN85 Thank you for the explanations. On the unequivocal one, I stopped reading the excerpt at “the verdict remains the same…”. Thus, I hastily chose “legal position”. That puts me at a likely -3. If the curve is generous, I’ll get a solid 780. That’ll do just fine.</p>
<p>Ha! I knew that the passage didn’t just say fluoride was harmless, it actually said it prevented tooth decay! </p>
<p>What is the difference between “finality” and “inevitability”?</p>
<p>Hm. Well, they actually are somewhat similar. In my opinion, finality implies reaching some sort of end or conclusion. Death could be considered a finality.</p>
<p>Inevitability just means unable to avoided. It implies certainty, doubtlessness, inescapability. It doesn’t carry the connotation of something ending, per se.</p>
<p>So in this case, I think “inevitability” better applies to the passage, since within a certain range, a ship simply can’t do anything to avoid drifting into a whirlpool. Similarly, the air vapors, regardless of which way they initially point, “ALWAYS” (as the passage outright says) end up drifting towards the mountain. This doesn’t really carry a sense of finality because the passage states that the air vapors don’t end at the mountain: rather, they are carried back to the town in the form of rain. Their hitting the mountain does not signify their end. </p>
<p>BTW: What was the CR question about relaxed and excitable vs. sullen and serious?</p>
<p>Was that the vocab one that started with “She is often labeled as outgoing because she is _____ & something; she is not nervous or _____.” (I’m definitely off a little but it was something along those lines)</p>
<p>Oh ok, I seem to recall a question like that.</p>
<p>Hey guys, for the question about what the purpose of the runner/writer passage, what did you all put? Analyze a misconception vs. describe an activity?</p>
<p>I believe I put analyze a misconception.</p>
<p>yes, analyze is right. 100%</p>
<p>Hm. I said describe an activity. What was your reasoning?</p>