<p>@invainortrue
im worried that i read the prompt wrong -_-
don’t think I really “argued” it… I basically said, oh look at these successful people, even though they are intelligent, they aren’t happy! and the inability to achieve happiness names them unwise!
… :(</p>
<p>Yeah, I certainly have to practice writing perfect essays for my next SAT.</p>
<p>@Biobub what was ur thesis?</p>
<p>If I made my points and explained them to a point that you’d understand and supports my point, but my writing style was okay, but not impressive, what do you think I’d get?</p>
<p>Yeah I put off essay practicing because my school’s AP english is extremely rigorous… but again, AP is different from SAT… very different.</p>
<p>I used Rosa Parks and Doctor Faustus as examples and stretched my argument a bit 
At least I completely filled both pages…</p>
<p>^i dont think your writing style have to be impressive to get a 6… as long as its not elementary it should be fine?</p>
<p>what does an 8/9/10 essay look like?</p>
<p>If I made my points and explained them to a point that you’d understand and supports my point, but my writing style was okay, but not impressive, what do you think I’d get?</p>
<p>Also, I filled both pages, but I had four paragraphs. But my conclusion paragraph used another example as part of my conclusion.</p>
<p>I’m almost 100% positive it was “dislodge”.</p>
<p>Pretty sure it was dislodge. Some people are looking way too much into the question. The suburb lady wanted to “shake off” the feelings, meaning get rid of them, meaning “dislodge.”</p>
<p>Edit: It doesn’t say “shake OFF.” Mah bad.</p>
<p>or could not acknowledge the feeling that it felt like home…ergh idk</p>
<p>Wouldn’t weaken also work then? It didn’t say she wanted to shake them of, but that she couldn’t shake the feeling that this was home. Wouldn’t weaken work?</p>
<p>dislodge seems like one of the college board answers that tries to trick you because it’s the first definition for shake</p>
<p>Weaken would be to leave the feeling there, as opposed to dislodging, which you completely remove it.</p>
<p>It’s not about getting the feelings out completely, but about the fact that the feeling was unchangeable. But whatever, I guess I could be wrong. I’ll just wait until the answers come out.</p>
<p>For the history one, I actually bubbled in “elective…marginilized”, but then changed my answer to “defunct…<em>something</em>” and I’m really ticked now because I knew ny first choice was right.</p>
<p>Did anyone feel like the math questions for this test was particularly hard??</p>
<p>@AwkwardAardvark Yeah, the math was really hard, but the CR was surprisingly easy. I usually only missed like 1 a section on the practice tests, but today I had to omit 6, but for CR, I probably only missed like 2 or 3.</p>
<p>It wasn’t “acknowledge”, because the phrase was something like, “I couldn’t shake the feeling that this was home.” The author does acknowledge, in context, that it felt like home. The place evokes her childhood home and she feels comfortable there. She doesn’t -want- it to feel like home, but acknowledges that it does. </p>
<p>Weaken vs. Dislodge: Shake is much closer to dislodge than it is to weaken. In context, the author doesn’t just want to lessen the feeling of “home” in such a tame place, she wants to eliminate it. The author idealizes the city and considers the suburb a place for boring people. She is torn between what she feels and what she wants to feel, and therefore wants to “shake” or “dislodge” what she actually feels.</p>
<p>That’s my reasoning.</p>