March SAT Writing Thread

<p>By most do you mean Penn?</p>

<p>Penn is one of them. Others include Stanford, Cornell, and Yale.</p>

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<p>Please don’t say things like that.
Wow I’m really sorry mabsjen I didnt mean to bring it up.</p>

<p>I don’t think taking it as many times as you have is a bad thing, and students should be allowed to take them as many times as they want. But surely there comes a time when what you have is “good enough?”</p>

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<p>I believe that you are thinking of monstor.</p>

<p>There was one question that continues to bother me.
it was something about mints and it was something like this</p>

<p>…mints were used to cover the floors and to freshen the air. </p>

<p>i was stuck b/w these 3 options
C- to cover
D- to freshen
E- No Error</p>

<p>if anyone remembers what they put, itd be awesome</p>

<p>^
I think this question was experimental, so don’t worry about it because it doesn’t count. :smiley:
But anyway, C and E are the same answer in your choices, and I would say both of them are right. Something covers floors rather than freshens them. </p>

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<p>Consolidated Writing - not experimental:</p>

<h2>28 out of 49 identified.</h2>

<p>Long Section:
Sentence Improvement:
The emperor penguin [__], the average <em>standing</em> at 45 inches tall. Answer was C.
Ridges run along the range, <em>looking</em> like spines on a lizard’s back.</p>

<p>No Errors (There were 3):
Hikers that went through the forest with the canopy (top right of first page)
Indian writer that used colloquial English (middle right of first page)
Unathletic boy who became adept at Ultimate Frisbee (bottom left of second page)</p>

<p>Idiom Errors:
succeeded on –> should be succeeded at (bottom left of second page)</p>

<p>Redundancy Errors:
return back (top right of second page)</p>

<p>Subj/Verb:
lay —> lays</p>

<p>Tense:
Had went —> had gone (We had planned by doing blah, blah, and blah, but nothing had gone as we had expected.)
Have —> Had (medieval people had built concrete)
Helped nourishing —> Helped to nourish</p>

<p>Paragraph Improvement (about Octopus Intelligence):
Nevertheless —> therefore
It -----> This fact
Such behavior suggests planning, insight, perhaps even use of tools
Number 35 —> sentence should be placed after sentence 14. Answer E.</p>

<p>False Comparison:
three soloists in an ensemble (as a soloist should be soloists) Answer was D.
horse manes to horses- Error was horses</p>

<p>Section 10:
Last 5 answers were E - D - E - E - E
The caretakers served the children, preventing spills by giving each child only a little amount. Answer was B.
Elections as a result of either … or …
but, according to (other answers had comma splices)
Even though they hate each other, Susan and Maxime are good friends and they even write children’s stories together.
In order to succeed at geology, one must study actual rock formations.(Misplaced Modifier error)
Portraits question (last one) was misplaced modifier. Portraits comes before depictions. Answer was E.
“Were he to be given” is correct (Were he to be given money, he would have spent it all on technological effects.)</p>

<p>“But if you’re retaking so many and aiming for a high score, you’re obviously going to apply to a good school. And in most cases, good schools do NOT accept score choice.”</p>

<p>Harvard and Princeton accept score choice and I’m pretty sure they’re good schools. lol</p>

<p>Even though it’s immoral, even if you were to use score choice for a school that doesn’t accept score choice, the school would never actually know that you used score choice.</p>

<p>11 days til we receive our scores!!</p>

<p>Harvard is a top school. It accepts score choice.</p>

<p>To answer your first question, my answer is a question: “Why not?”</p>

<p>I believe I can do better. Sure the fees/time add up but I genuinely believe I can score higher. Like it or not, every point matters.</p>

<p>Proof: First three times on the ACT, I got 32, 31, and 32 respectively. Fourth time I got a 34. I didnt study in between the 3rd and 4th times. </p>

<p>Im hoping for something similar to happen with the SAT this time :)</p>

<p>Also, I do take practice tests. In fact, I’ve done all the ETS made ones I could get my hands on multiple times. (i.e. Blue book, OC, QAS, 10 Real SATs, etc). And ,yes, they have helped. W/o doing them, I prob would have gotten like 2000.</p>

<p>One more error id to add:</p>

<p>had wrote => had written</p>

<p>OK i know there was a question about the scientists in the octopus passage. there were two answer choices i was stuck btw. one was “they noted” and the other was “some…” srry can’t remember exactly. but i chose the sentence starting with “some” because noted was past tense and didn’t fit in with the rest of the sentences it seemed. what do you guys have?</p>

<p>less than 48 hours left.</p>

<p>Less than 36 hours haha.</p>

<p>does anyone remember the question^
please…?</p>

<p>No. You’ll find out Thursday.</p>

<p>Does anyone remember this question?</p>

<p>The answer was something something … as in the qualification.</p>

<p>The other choices had the word “but” but didn’t make sense.</p>

<p>Just wait 12 more hours. :p</p>

<p>do you remember the question?</p>

<p>I don’t, sorry. I find it hard to remember writing questions. I can still remember the CR and M questions though.</p>