October 2010 Writing SAT thread

<p>Does anybody remember the tanning bed question?</p>

<p>I can’t remember the sentence but I narrowed it down to two possible answers. One of them included the word “people” in it (I think this may have been A) and the other didn’t (answer choice B?).</p>

<p>u can usually tell how much you screwed up on your essay</p>

<p>Why doesn’t “the price at which” work? Why is that an error?</p>

<p>mammal one went like,</p>

<p>the reason the mammal is dominant is . … … its ability to blah blah</p>

<p>“its” was underlined.</p>

<p>what would 4 omitted and 4 wrong be ?
i hope it’s above 700.</p>

<p>^no way. That’s like 650 ish</p>

<p>u can usually tell how much you screwed up on your essay </p>

<p>^ last time I thought it was good but I got an 8
this time I wrote it in AP lang style with three assertions and evidence to support. According to the sample essays you’re apparently supposed to pick one example and expand upon it?</p>

<p>like I think its a good essay but I don’t know if its good on CB’s standards.</p>

<p>diablosauce//</p>

<p>for your reference,</p>

<p>7 wrong with 12 essay was 720 in June,</p>

<p>so depending on your essay score, 700+ is possible…</p>

<p>is there a list in this thread? around what page? thanks</p>

<p>im pretty sure the mammal one was a definite no error. i found errors with ease on every other sentence in error ID. statistically it would be extremely unlikely for there to be 0 no errors and so i think thats another reasons why its a no error.</p>

<p>^whatever. Your confidence proves nothing. Just wait until the 28th</p>

<p>neither does yours. uve been ■■■■■■■■ every single forum for the SAT 2010 oct test and you’ve argued every single one of your answers and have conceited nothing even in situations where you were clearly wrong. i’m not gonna go list these situations becuz im not going to waste my time looking for all the nonsense you wrote esp on the CR thread. ur right we’ll see on the 28th.</p>

<p>There’s way too much debate on some of these questions. Let’s just all wait until the 28th. If we can’t reach a consensus after nearly 50 pages, then I doubt arguing even more is going to prove what the answer was.</p>

<p>Does anyone know what the tanning bed sentence answer was? I picked (A) no change.</p>

<p>Wow some of you guys are so ****ing stupid. There is really an argument about indeed/by comparison and NE/not NE on the mammal question?</p>

<p>Indeed and NE all the way. 150% sure. I haven’t missed a writing question in my last 10 practice tests.</p>

<p>@brostradamus - was that the one that said “although people are now much better informed” or something like that?</p>

<p>yeah that one</p>

<p>yeah, I put that as well</p>

<p>What number was the tanning bed question? I remember my last section went (from #1-10) C-B-C-B-D-A-D-A-E-A.</p>

<p>And I still believe there was one NE on the test (excluding the mammal question, that would possibly make it two) but I don’t remember exactly what it was. A few others remember there being another NE, but nobody remembers what the question was?</p>

<p>In response to an earlier on which was the experimental section, I believe it was section 4 for me, since I had two writing sections back to back (if my memory serves me well).
There was a question about arctic foxes in that section – “The fur of an arctic fox is thicker and provides more insulation than that of foxes in more temperate climates.” I chose “that of foxes” for the error. </p>

<p>Also, I agree with MW2 above that “Indeed,” is a no-brainer. I would to reiterate the excellent point made by a previous poster, that simply because there’s a nutritional comparison being made between the two types of food does not automatically warrant the use of “By comparison”. Indeed, the incorrect usage of that phrase would imply a comparison between the linked sentences, rather than the elements within the sentence. </p>

<p>Those are just my thoughts on that matter. I do not wish to argue ceaselessly on something whose importance has, for the moment, lapsed.</p>