Writing Section - 2009 March SATs

<p>for the oranges one… what was the answer?</p>

<p>i don’t recall a “that of” in the question, so I said D was wrong because it was comparing taste of oranges to CA oranges. did anyone put something different?</p>

<p>there was one like:</p>

<p>distant though we were … walking to museum to view city or something</p>

<p>what was that one? I put A even though none of them seemed very good</p>

<p>^ you two are both right, I believe.</p>

<p>yeah, for the museum it was the original sentence, which was awkward but correct.</p>

<p>Has anyone talked about this one?</p>

<p>It was some opera writer, with little success compared to contemporaries?</p>

<p>the opera writer’s efforts were incorrectly compared to her contemporaries</p>

<p>Should have been compared with her contemporaries works. So it was choice D. </p>

<p>For the oranges one, wasn’t one of the choices to “those of” <– was that right answer.</p>

<p>Does anyone remember the very last question? From section 10?</p>

<p>Are you guys sure the museum was no error?</p>

<p>I remember putting E, it was like 2 full phrases, and E included “,and so”</p>

<p>oh it should’ve said the writer’s efforts were modest compared to the efforts of her comtempories… that’s the right one?</p>

<p>what did you guys get for one of the error IDs that had “for purposes of” (underlined) “taxation” in it? i don’t remember the rest of it, sorry, but i thought that one was pretty strange</p>

<p>yeah thats the right one Mde.</p>

<p>For the oranges, was it bla bla, those of bla. ?</p>

<p>1)fairly well aquainted = redundant; do not need fairly, i got this one wrong and my friend showed me
2) SC’s: malfeasance, pastoral, merriflousness, guilt-compunction, agrarian(African americans going from urban to farming), intemperate-inimical
3)simply substituting flour ???, you are</p>

<p>4) number of no errors. I got like 7 e’s for the whole writing section out of 35, like 3 or 4 for ISE’s</p>

<p>which posed a problem for me when I was writing the essay as I realized impoliteness did not mean unethical…</p>

<p>I used Elizabeth Bennet of Pride and Prejudice</p>

<p>and Napoleon but -_ -</p>

<p>^But “fairly well-acquainted” does have a slightly different meaning than simply “well-acquainted”!</p>

<p>“fairly well-acquainted” is not redundant, because simply “well-acquainted” suggests a strong relationship.
That sentence had another error.</p>

<p>What didyou guys think of the writing section in general?</p>

<p>did anyone have a question about an opossum?</p>

<p>In the section with the identifying sentence errors, there were 4 “no error” answers total. Positive.</p>

<p>no fairly well acquainted was redundant.</p>