<p>I still don’t agree about “trying to limit Duncan’s ability as a teacher”…</p>
<p>^^ Probably a 80 M 80 W 62 CR, with last year’s curve.
That’s a 222, and I would be ENTHRALLED with that score. Especially since you’re a sophomore, and granted you improve in the next year… just be happy. I had a 206 as a sophomore. 222 would have been a miracle. If you just work on your critical reading a little, you’d be looking a 230+ score.</p>
<p>^ Do you remember other options?</p>
<p>I’m not sure, but for the “thieves” question I put “D” that the market had shrunken and not had shrunk.</p>
<p>I also did that on another question for the same reason.</p>
<p>I don’t know if it was grammatically correct or not, but “had shrunk” didn’t sound natural to me and I found myself adding on the -en ending as I repeated it to myself. 
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<p>For the Duncan’s ability as a teacher, I said that it should be “His tone towards the students was <insert a=”" certain="" adjective="" that="" i="" can’t="" remember="" here="">"</insert></p>
<p>^^^ and ^, I put that Mo was a “poor judge of the students’ character”. In the same paragraph as the quote referenced, the passage stated that Mo said that if students weren’t given a lot of homework, they would be rowdy or be “troublemakers”.</p>
<p>The question didn’t say “limiting… ability as a teacher” it said “minimizing … as a teacher”</p>
<p>Remember that “minimize” can mean “to understate”.</p>
<p>@TechnoMusic: I put D on that also. Earlier in the sentence, it had used “has”, so I believed “had shrunk” to be incorrect.</p>
<p>^^ I am 100% sure that the answer choice was not "minimizing his ability as a teacher. It was “limiting Duncan’s ability as a teacher”.</p>
<p>Limiting=/Minimizing</p>
<p>Limiting Duncan’s ability as a teacher -> Restricting Duncan’s ability as a teacher</p>
<p>Duncan’s ability as a teacher gets students to like his class and (as a byproduct) not go to Mo’s class. Mo wants to restricts Duncan’s ability to make English fun (his ability as a teacher) because Mo wants kids to come to his class. </p>
<p>Still not convinced?</p>
<p>Personally I’m not really convinced. I’m pretty sure it was just that Mo was ‘a shrewd judge of character’. The passage even said later on that Mo was lazy, so why would he want more students to go to his class?</p>
<p>Either way we won’t know for almost another two months, so whatever.</p>
<p>For the grid in, what was the adding from top and left answer?</p>
<p>15 was the answer.</p>
<p>@CantConcentrate</p>
<p>I have proof that it’s “minimizing.”</p>
<p>How do you have proof that something on the test was a certain way o.o?</p>
<p>I also remember it as limiting.</p>
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<p>No you don’t.</p>
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<p>I cannot accept this as your “evidence”. Your answer choices aren’t even in the correct order.</p>
<p>Actually I kind of remember it as minimizing now.</p>
<p>Curse you tests, making it hard to remember your intricacies.</p>
<p>Anyway, what reason would Mo have to make Duncan a bad teacher other than to make him lose his students, and thus make Mo lose profit as Duncan’s boss? Mo wouldn’t gain any students, really, and if anything I don’t think Mo wants to teach. The passage mentioned that mo only works for something like an hour and in addition mentions him being lazy, or some other synonym.</p>
<p>The funny thing is, you could look at that question one of two ways:</p>
<p>1) If you looked solely at the line references given, the answer is, without a doubt, that Mo is “a shrewd judge of character” or whatever.</p>
<p>2) If you looked at the passage as a whole it’s the other one.</p>
<p>@CantConcentrate</p>
<p>The “minimize” answer is correct, since if you look at the line references, Mo is trying to understate or belittle Duncan’s abilities as a teacher. That’s what minimizing is.</p>
<p>I don’t think Mo’s intent is to make Duncan a worse teacher though. That would make absolutely no sense. I think the passage was just portraying Mo as a shrewd/arrogant/somewhat lazy person who holds grudges.</p>