<p>Hi, all. I wrote a set of 5 sentence completions. I was wondering if you all could give me feedback as to how difficult each one is and how “accurate” they are in general? </p>
<li>The ________ remarks of the senator on the issue of the amelioration of the financial troubles of the city helped to solidify his ________ to its resolution. </li>
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<li>Amy, far from __<strong><em>, was seldom approached for information on the latest in fashion because she routinely showed up to work in </em></strong> clothes. </li>
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<li>Mr. Jacobson, a successful entrepeneur, could afford the luxury of flight to many exotic lands with an eclectic collection of societies, each with its own languages, customs, and fashions, thus he was quite ______. </li>
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<li>A</li>
<li>D</li>
<li>D</li>
<li>i am not sure.. C</li>
<li>E</li>
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<p>i think these are great because of the vocabulary but they are too short. its easy to figure out the context of the sentence without even knowing half the vocab. add more long ones</p>
<p>A second review indicates 3 is not a great question. It is a tad too explicit in asking for the definition. Rephrase it like this:</p>
<p>The financially well-endowed Mr. Jacobson was very _______; he traveled frequently to many exotic lands with an eclectic collection of societies, each with its own languages, customs, and fashions.</p>
<p>This is more in the manner of a SAT question anyways, and endowed is a great word.</p>
<p>I will answer these for practice and rank them 1-5 on difficulty, like CB does. </p>
<p>A - 5, but the sentence is NOT the sort you’d find on the SAT because it’s fairly poor. Nice insertion of amelioration.
D - 4, I’m not sure if it’s D, but the fact that B and E are identical made me eliminate them and pick D, so therefore it wasn’t as hard.
D - 3, Nothing difficult here. The sentence here is poor: I like amciw’s suggestion.
C - 3, There were only two choices with viable second blank options, and then it was easily apparent which of the two was correct
C - 5, because this is a very confusing sentence lol</p>
<p>I think in general you’ve made your very questions difficult by using lots of SAT level words IN the sentence, as well as using hard ones in nearly every answer choice.</p>
<p>EDIT: Looks like I got them all right, excellent But you should make each question have one CLEAR answer. Make some more for us! I love doing the super hard ones. </p>
<p>I’m curious, what does “pulchritudinous” mean? lol</p>
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<li><p>That sentence would never appear on the SAT for several reasons. First of all, it contains five (!) prepositional phrases in a row, making it unnecessarily verbose. SAT sentences tend to be written in a different style. Second of all, “propensity” is not used correctly in the context. For example, one may have a propensity to drink when one is depressed. Thus, to have a propensity “to its resolution” makes no sense.</p></li>
<li><p>Nor would this sentence appear on the SAT. The word “vogue” is a noun; you say that something is “in vogue” when it is popular at the moment (alternatively, you could say that it is “the vogue”). Although it is true that “vogue” is used as an adjective in very rare, obscure cases, a person cannot be vogue. It could, however, be used in this context: “An oil bonanza made the oil companies vogue stocks.” And, honestly, I don’t think the correct answer would ever contain two French words.</p></li>
<li><p>Well, to say the least, it’s a run-on sentence. There should be a semicolon rather than a comma before “thus.” Also, I don’t like the use of “societies” in that sentence; it’s quite ambiguous. Does each exotic land have an eclectic collection of societies?</p></li>
<li><p>The word “propitiate” is misused; it means “appease.” You can’t “appease” someone “towards” something. That’s not to mention that “video games” are not an “industry.”</p></li>
<li><p>This one’s not too bad, although both (C) and (E) appear to be plausible answers (although neither fits perfectly).</p></li>
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<p>It’s pretty blatant these aren’t the College Board’s. “The issue of the amelioration of the financial troubles of the city” would never happen on the SAT. Amelioration is a good word though.</p>
<p>Edit: Just saw Begoner’s comments. Sorry for just repeating stuff. </p>
<p>Also, the whole dynamic changes with knowing these haven’t gone through the screening process standard questions go through. You kind of get the feeling you’re trying to use big words and subsequently they’re slightly out of context or create awkward sentences.</p>
But you should make each question have one CLEAR answer. Make some more for us! I love doing the super hard ones. </p>