October 2010 Writing SAT thread

<p>Oh, and I can recall the exact wording of a previously mentioned question, if it helps anyone:</p>

<p>“This morning, just as the professor was leaving for a lecture, a panel of distinguished scientists published a report confirming his findings.” (The latter part of the sentence has my correction.))</p>

<p>(Oh my goodness my grammar was destroyed in my first post >.> Apologies.)</p>

<p>The only E in writing was number 20. I am not sure if it might be a different section for you guys, but for me it was section 5.</p>

<p>“This morning, just as the professor was leaving for a lecture, a panel of distinguished scientists published a report confirming his findings.” (The latter part of the sentence has my correction.)) </p>

<p>That is correct.</p>

<p>I think that might’ve been the E that I got, since I vaguely remembered it to be #19. If that was really #20, that’s close enough for me to believe it. So then the professor question was the only NE (excluding the possibility of the mammal question, since we’re dead split on that.)</p>

<p>The professor one was a sentence improvement not a sentence error, was it not?</p>

<p>@MW2isawesome, now that I think about it it might’ve been a sentence improvement -_-</p>

<p>^ Yes it was a sentence improvement.</p>

<p>hey guys
first post! :slight_smile:
can we get a consolidated list or something?</p>

<p>I still don’t get what people’s argument for the mammal question having an error was. I’ve done enough SAT writing questions that errors just jump out at me and I read that sentence though multiple times.</p>

<p>what was the answer to the treadmill question?</p>

<p>what about the answer to the question about tanning?</p>

<p>^^ lol yeah i kept looking at the sentence and i was thinking, “could “its” be the error?” and then after staring at it… i left it blank. ugh i probably should have put “NE” since i couldn’t find any error.</p>

<p>The “its” almost got me too. I went back and forth whether possessive or conjunction needed the apostrophe. Eventually, another question saved me that had “its ____” uses in a possessive form, without an underline, and without an apostrophe.</p>

<p>^ Wait is that really why people said there was an error in that question lol? It’s means it is and its is possesive.</p>

<p>^ That is not why there was an error, I think that there was an error because the phrase “…the reason is its ability” is incomplete. Its should be the reason is that “it has the ability.” I might be wrong but this was my reasoning behind my answer.</p>

<p>^Mitduke, yup that’s why I thought there was an error.</p>

<p>Is it possible to block members and hide their replies? I can’t stand to read these threads because it seems the more idiotic the person, the more they insist on posting.</p>

<p>what questions were in the writing experimental? i really think i had it since i did not had the math or reading experimental…</p>

<p>reading experimental: basset hound, alice, football
math experimental: pi,wire,women/teenagers</p>

<p>but i had all the writing questions discussed here.</p>

<p>I thought the sentence was something like this:</p>

<p>One of the more [something] reasons that the mammal is considered a dominant species is its ability to blah blah blah.</p>

<p>Sounds correct to me?</p>

<p>^no that’s not how it was phrased. AT. ALL. That’s obviously no error if it was phrased like that. But no.</p>

<p>We shall see come October 28.</p>