<p>Yeah you’re like disproving your own answesr @failedhardasian. Meaning has to do with symbolism, mood, tone, as in creativity. Like that guy was able to create an effect by using all those short choppy sentences that created a certain mood for the reader. When you get down to it, it all has to do with creativity.</p>
<p>wait nevermind, I got 2/5 for that one</p>
<p>The tedious and boring answer is way too dogmatic. Every prep thing I used discourages against those kinds of answers. </p>
<p>The answer was definitely ‘tedious’ for the passage on punctuation. The author would’ve supported this standpoint because there were a lot of details in passage one that suggested the speaker was just tired of crossing all the t’s and dotting the i’s. </p>
<p>I had an experimental critical reading section on the increasing numbers of democracies.</p>
<p>@Tkat97 the “creativity” answer choice is an example of taking an implication too far. here’s the portion of the passage in question:</p>
<p>Dickens famously started his novel Bleak House with the sentence “London. Michaelmas term lately over and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall.” The second paragraph begins “Fog everywhere” and carries on with numerous present participles and no auxiliary verb. So we have “Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs” and “fog cruelly pinching the fingers and toes of his shivering little 'prentice boy on deck” but not one “is” or “was” amongst them. And it doesn’t matter. In fact it makes the opening passage all the more powerful. Fog sits around the Lord Chancellor and entraps, both metaphorically and literally, many of the main characters in the novel. What better way to start than with that: “Implacable November weather.”</p>
<p>I suppose you could make the case that “it makes the opening passage more powerful” supports the hampering creativity answer choice, but it’s not really a clear one. Lack of punctuation was good in this particular case, but nothing here really indicates that the world’s literature has been made worse because of all our punctuation rules.</p>
<p>Contrast this to the last paragraph:
I know you have to put commas around clauses and that a colon goes at the beginning of a list but I get BORED putting marks everywhere I think they should go. My word processor screams green every time it thinks I need a comma but sometimes it’s wrong and at others I think – WHY BOTHER. And – apologies to the elite of French writers battling to save its perilous existence – don’t even get me started on the semi-colon. (Although if it allows us to breathe a little more easily mid-sentence then why shouldn’t it?) It’s easy to get hung up on the niceties and scorn at errors in a letter, but punctuation changes. It’s the meaning that matters. Right?</p>
<p>I think it’s very evident that the author feels that punctuation is boring and tedious. No question about it.</p>
<p>Sorry guys but i’m standing my ground on the “undermines creativity”. SAT doesn’t want dogmatic answers. </p>
<p>@Tkat97 sure, we’ll respect your point. 
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<p>Ok this is getting dumb there’s no point in arguing but I’m standing for my answer simply because I see evidence for it and it’s more SAT friendly. </p>
<p>Let’s move on to bigger and better things… what was the answer to the paint bucket question? I put 22.5 gallons but I am not so sure now.</p>
<p>It was 22.5 @t3rryd4actyl</p>
<p>Thanks whew! What other iffy questions were there? I only got 3 no errors on the writing section and a TON of Cs</p>
<p>I chose one option like " ironic tone… detachment…" something like this… Does anyone can recall?? This is my last time for SAT i AM KIND OF screwed on Wr section.</p>
<p>what do you guys think!!! answer me</p>
<p>@t3rryd4ctyl Yeah i only got 3 no errors lol everyone else got like 4 or 5 i believe. 
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<p>@FailedHardAsian Do you remember what the questions were for those answers? </p>
<p>I had that but then changed it, it may have been right though. I remember thinking what I chose over that made a lot more sense though.</p>
<p>Can somebody please comment some of the vocab from this test? I just want to see what I think I got.</p>
<p>@FailedHardAsian I don’t recall ever choosing something like ironic tone…detachment. are you sure it wasn’t an experimental?</p>
<p>@2400boii oof everyone got me all worked up there for a sec… haha 8-| </p>
<p>@t3rryd4ctyl Lol what score are u expecting?</p>
<p>@2400boii ehh… first time taking the SAT ever, so I’ll take what I get with grace :D<br>
Math -2
CR -???
W -3
That’s what I reckon… I’m a little disappointed about math as that has always been my best subject but I can’t do anything about it now.</p>
<p>How about you?</p>