<p>For the supermarket vs. convenience store problem, the answer was D
I found the percentage of price that you would’ve paid in supermarket compared to the convenience store- might’ve been a convoluted method but the lower the percent, the higher the discount, and that is how I found the answer
D was the point second from the left</p>
<p>For the “being” dilemma:
In my opinion there was no error-- I used Erica Meltzer’s Ultimate Book for SAT grammar and even though she has an entire section on gerunds and how they are incorrectly used 99% of the time, with a special emphasis on “being,” there were quite a few practice examples with that gerund that were CORRECT even though they were AWKWARD, and the ostrich sentence was one of those constructions</p>
<p>For the math question (x^2 - y), the answer is most definitely -2. There was no other answer that made sense.</p>
<p>And… finally my two cents on the teosinte debate (sorry for this long post friends )
Based on what the author wrote, the best answer would’ve been that “teosinte is a genetic relative of corn.” There was absolutely nothing in the article that suggested that teosinte was in anyway comparable to corn-- on the contrary, I believe that the author was trying to emphasize the differences between the two species by marvelling at how far corn has come from wispy diminuitive teosinte.</p>
<p>I understand people who are confused now. The roman numeral problem has an ambiguity of like 10% I’d say.</p>
<p>Option 2 could be false depending on what difference you take (ex. the difference of 3 and 5 is -2 but the difference of 5 and 3 is 2) but common sense would make you subtract the smaller number from the bigger which would make option 2 correct. </p>
<p>@collegetalk11 that’s not quite true. Genetically, you ARE related to Obama, simply because you are human (and all humans have, like, 99.9% the same DNA).</p>
<p>Passage aside, I don’t think there’s any source that claims that teosinte is a type of corn. I find it highly unlikely that in this type of question, a fact that is just plain wrong would be a correct answer choice.</p>
<p>@collegetalk11 No, it is genetic. The reading specifically said genetic. Also, your little analogy there is wrong. Example: I am kin to my grandparents, and I am genetically related to them. I am not kin to people living in Africa, but I am still genetically related to them. Why, you may ask. That is because we all have arms, legs, eyes, a torso, etc. etc. etc. Therefore, by applying this logic to the context of the problem, it is not the kinship thing.</p>
<p>How do you guys think the math curve will be? harsh? easy? I feel like I got -2 wrong and I hope that won’t be too detrimental to my overall score</p>
<p>Agreed, I feel that the math curve will be pretty harsh. Personally I thought all the questions were extremely easy but overall I think people didn’t find them too hard.</p>
<p>Im not related to Obama… Well if you wanna go waaaay back then yeah technically I’m related to this moth in my room too because all species evolved from somewhere. Same level of chromosomes doesn’t mean anything in terms of scientific genetic relations. If there’s no kinship, there’s no genetic relation. </p>
<p>:( do you have any idea what 2 questions wrong would be then? 750 MAYBE?
How about the other sections? I definitely did not do so well on critical reading, but writing was okay.</p>
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