<p>@Swedish - The prompt is does improvement/progress involve problems and setbacks. But it should of been the other way around. Improvements catalyze problems and setbacks if you believed improvements did involve problems.</p>
<p>for the speed of sound question, the option that included “that of” was wrong.</p>
<p>ok can you guys go talk about the essay somewhere else because not everyone can participate in that discussion and we’re trying to have a general discussion about topics that EVERYONE can relate to.</p>
<p>Anyways, I got 5 no errors due to the “speed of sound” 000ooo I thought you were with me on that as well?</p>
<p>Guys do you think the government of 1984 and McDonalds are good essay examples for the “should we have suspicion” prompt? I used the citizens’ willingness to believe that their government had good intentions for them and that it would never use them. I also wrote about how little kids who don’t even know a lot of suspicious activity go to McDonalds because they are advertised cute animals and stuff</p>
<p>@mpgh</p>
<p>why should it be the other way around?</p>
<p>it just said INVOLVE</p>
<p>so like as long as I mentioned how setbacks and progress were interrrelated and involved ea other, doesnt that answer the prompt?</p>
<p>■■■ ur scaring me… might have to cancel now…</p>
<p>The speed of sound was no error sorry I apologize.</p>
<p>@Swedish - The word involve means “to engage or employ”. I don’t think you’ll receive a 0 as I’ve had friends that had gotten 11 writing offtopic and I’ve seen sample prompts that received 10+ without answering the topic clearly.</p>
<p>Goodjobbro/ Thats pretty solid. I wrote about politicans and the physiological. Something about social darwinism and how there is something in all humans that makes a individual look for a competitive edge. I though that ws kind of unique.</p>
<p>so the prompt was: " does progress/improvement involve setbacks and problems"</p>
<p>My take on it was that improvement do involve problems because only from major setbacks and problems can we progress and change for the better into the future…</p>
<p>2 ppl I talked to right now said I interpretted wrongly, can you all guys me ur opinions??</p>
<p>On paragraph improvement, was one of the answers delete “therefore?”
Or was that from the experimental?</p>
<p>I’ll have to agree with the other two posters, sorry.</p>
<p>@Angel - I think it is “however”</p>
<p>Why though… i dont see how my take on it was wrong…</p>
<p>Can you please clarify??</p>
<p>You’re saying you wrote about how problems leads to improvements. The topic should of been how improvements lead to problems.</p>
<p>Oh man I just nearly had a heart attack, thought I completely misread the prompt.</p>
<p>Swedish - Remember in the upper paragraph preceding the question, it talked about how original conditions can be lost in the process of change? The question was asking whether progress and change can LEAD to drawbacks and problems in the future. But, if you did talk about improvements and stuff, the reader’ll probably still award you some points. </p>
<p>I got no error for the speed of sound one. Because “that of” refers to the speed so the entire sentence would be “the speed of sound in water is greater than the speed of sound in air” right?</p>
<p>… it just said involve… and involve means like related…</p>
<p>should I cancel my score??</p>
<p>The speed of sound’s answer was “that of”. Allow me to elaborate by reposting something I said earlier:</p>
<p>Speed of sound: since sound waves travel faster in air than they do in water, the speed of sound in air is faster than that of sound in water.</p>
<p>I put “that of sound” as an error. Otherwise, it would read “… the speed of sound in air is faster than the speed of sound of sound in water” when “that” becomes expanded. Better if it were just “the speed of sound in air is faster than that in water.”</p>
<p>that replaced “the speed of sound”</p>
<p>I took a somewhat intermediary position; I argued that every process of improvement naturally faces problems. However, it seems like I impacted that differently from the question, as I said that these problems just made victory sweeter. I did mention that these problems threatened to destroy any advances, though. I definitely think the wording was ambiguous, though, as plenty of people I spoke to had a similar interpretation to me or the OP. How do people think college board will grade it?</p>
<p>I’ll just copy and paste my post from the other thread: </p>
<p>Remember in the upper paragraph preceding the question, it talked about how original conditions can be lost during change? So the question was asking whether progress and change can LEAD to drawbacks and problems in the future. I guess the word involve can be confusing, but it was definitely the other way around 
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<p>How do you think you did on the other sections? The essay is +/- 250 points on only writing, and you still might get a few points, so I’d say think about the entire test in general.</p>
<p>what if that replaced “speed”?</p>