<p>Ah that makes sense now. thanks :)</p>
<p>No problem. Happy to help :)</p>
<p>So the only ones that are still up for debate are the thief one, the roman numeral one, the ‘add to second paragraph’ one? Everybody is fine with all of the other answers here?</p>
<p>Critical Reading:
Sentence Completions:
-Scientists failing: deplorable
-Library fostered “unfettered” thought
-Misanthropic<br>
-Ruses/artifice
-Flamboyant, not elephantine.
-Pedestrian</p>
<p>Mo and Duncan Passage
-Tape recorder signified difference in Mo’s and Duncan’s students
-Mo’s teaching style was pompous
-Mo was mocking Duncan
-Mo was trying to limit Duncan’s ability as a teacher
-The buff class leader was embarrassed because he was asking the class’s request
-Broach: Bring up
-Duncan was sympathetic to the students</p>
<p>Guy in the Wild Passage:
-The guy was frightened
-It was a simile</p>
<p>Ocean Passage:
-Showed a discontinuity between an enormous thing and what little knowledge people had of it
-Tides are commonplace</p>
<p>Extraterrestrial Passages:
-Tone: Passionate
-Retraction vs. Concession: Concession</p>
<p>Bronte (Wuthering Height’s author):
-Simile and Personification, not Understatement
-Slippery: Unreliable
-Odd meant infrequent (odd painting)
-Paragraph 6 expanded on a comparison in paragraph 5
-“Between”: Emphasize a different meaning to a previously used word
-Sister’s actions were unfortunate by understandable
-Serious meant considerable (had some serious literary sleuthing to do)
-Good look into personal life: private diary letters</p>
<p>Urban Sprawl passages:
-Elitist and shortsighted vs. arrogant and vindictive: elitist and shortsighted
-2 short passages described urban sprawl as “homogeneous”
-Quotation marks distanced the author from the aforementioned critics</p>
<p>Math:
-Parallelogram: 20<em>68 (1360)
-Arithmetic mean with a<b<c, b = 20, answer should have been 35.
-Distance between the two points: .9
-Car at 50 mph: 7.2 minutes
-Venn diagram (10-100, inclusive, multiples of three, not perfect squares): 28
-The question about k: k/2k-n
-Cylinder’s volume: 35</em>r*pi
-Isosceles triangle max length: 11
- -1<x<0 –="" lowest="" value="" is="" 1="" (x^3)="" -intersection="" of="" two="" linear="" equations,="" y=“5.5” -golf="" tournament:="" 30="" -cds="" to="" make="" the="" other="" job="" pay="" more:="" 134="" students="" in="" 1994:="" 220="" x<y<0:="" i,="" ii="" and="" iii="" (i.="" x+1="" <="" y+2="" ii.="" 3x="" 2y="" iii.="" x=""> 0)
Isosceles triangle+square: 12x
India: 37 million computer users
Difference in car sales: 260,000
7.009 was the closest to 7
Sudoku(add top/left): 15</x<0></p>
<p>Writing:
Sentence Errors:
-Governments/violate question: error in “it violates”, should be “they violate”
-Caesar salad question: “But”
-Prohibit “from”
-Parliament question: should have been “For those who”
-Security company question about choosing a password should have been “you not choose”
-Eels have organs in their tail which (enables) <- error, should be enable
-Should have been “her and her husband”, not “she and her husband”
-Two no errors: Thieves, yoyo maker.</p>
<p>Artist (readymade) passage:
-What could be added to the 2nd paragraph: How a readymade could become appealing</p>
<p>was the question about the bad scientist deplorable or equivocal?</p>
<p>^ I don’t think roman numeral is up for debate, I thought we’d agreed it was I, II, and III</p>
<p>Last years curves with one less point on writing yields:
66, 80, 74. </p>
<p>ƒμł!</p>
<p>The scientist’s presentation was deplorable because it was simply bad (awful), not equivocal (not that an equivocal scientific presentation would be good).</p>
<p>@KaChow
It was a pretty simple one, so I’m pretty sure I personally got it right. I just didn’t remember what the consensus was. I, II, and III is on the answer sheet.</p>
<p>So, that leaves thieves and add to 2nd paragraph.</p>
<p>Let’s leave thieves as no error. We’ll find out for sure when the booklets come back.</p>
<p>@IDC
Well, the only debate about thieves was whether it was “showed” or “shows”. If it was shows, it was no error, but if it was showed, the error was D. I don’t feel like hunting through these 52 pages to find the answer, but I might, 'cause otherwise it’s going to bug me all day.</p>
<p>The concensus was “no error”. I had D as my answer, and I am just doubtful that I could have had such a question correct. The question was something like “the thieves… had (verb) … market has shrunk.”</p>
<p>If the stupid thieves had studied for the SAT and not failed themselves into a life of crime maybe that situation would’ve never happened and we would’ve had a less annoying PSAT question.</p>
<p>^lol</p>
<p>The sentence was either:</p>
<p>“That the thieves failed to sell all of the stolen artwork they had smuggled out of Sicily showed that the market for stolen antiquities has shrunk.” </p>
<p>Or</p>
<p>“That the thieves failed to sell all of the stolen artwork they had smuggled out of Sicily shows that the market for stolen antiquities has shrunk.”</p>
<p>In the first case, “has shrunk” is not correct, because “has shrunk” belongs to a noun phrase the modifies the verb, “showed”, which is in past tense. It should have been “had shrunk”.</p>
<p>In the second case, the “has shrunk” is correct, because of the same argument above, but in this case it modifies “shows”, which is in present tense. Ergo: No error.</p>
<p>Edit: If the consensus was E, then I’m inclined to believe it was ‘shows’ and I just screwed up (I put D, too).</p>
<p>I thought it was the first one when I when I left the test, but now I think it might be the second one. We need someone who wasn’t too panicked to forget.</p>
<p>Where’s the batman when you need him…</p>
<p>Who is the batman?</p>
<p>Okay, so this is the thieves one.</p>
<p>“That the thieves failed to sell all of the stolen artwork they had smuggled out of Sicily suggests that the market for stolen antiquities has shrunk.”
This is undoubtedly the sentence.
The thing that is wrong here is “has shrunk.” This is because the events of the thieves failing to sell the stolen antiquities occurred in the past, so this means the black market referred to in the sentence is the black market of whatever that time period was. Think about it from a historical perspective: say this event happened in 1600. We would say the black market “had shrunk.” People seem to think “has shrunk” is a past participle; it is actually referring to the present.
So the answer was D. Hope this is clear enough to close discussion.</p>
<p>^ “This is undoubtedly the sentence.”</p>
<p>If you don’t mind me asking, how are you so sure?</p>
<p>“That the thieves failed to sell all of the stolen artwork they had smuggled out of Sicily suggests that the market for stolen antiquities has shrunk.”</p>
<p>[That the thieves failed to sell all of the stolen artwork they had smuggled out of Sicily] <- Noun phrase, subject
[suggests] <- verb, present tense
[that the market for stolen antiquities has shrunk.] <- noun phrase, direct object of “suggests”, therefore everything in it must be present tense to match suggest. </p>
<p>At least, that’s the way my English teacher explained it.</p>
<p>I distinctly remember seeing ‘had’, not ‘has’. I remember thinking to myself, because when I was doing prep there were questions that had stuff like ‘had swam’, etc and during the PSAT I thought to myself how the ‘had’ worked with the conjugation of ‘shrunk’.</p>
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<p>“Shrunk” is a past participle. </p>
<p>“Has shrunk” is the past perfect, which indicates that the market contraction began at an unspecified time in the past.</p>
<p>I just know it was has. I thought to myself, if this were had, then the sentence would be correct. The tense of “suggests” is not related to the rest of the sentence; that is to say, it’s like a historian is describing past events from a present-time point of view. If everything were to be present tense, then how could you possibly correct the entire sentence with only one choice?</p>