***December 2015 SAT (US Only) Thread***

which of the them questions was right? there were two…were they both no error?

https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/forums/when-to-use-compared-with-and-compared-to-t2071.html

If someone can remember and post the exact question, I can swing it by my teacher.

it was something along the lines of this

“scientists say that the octupus’s intelligence is the highest of all the invertebrate animals, and is comparable to that of some mammals”

Definitely no error for the octopuses one

I believe “compared to” on the SAT is an idiomatic thing

Did anyone get a grid-in question about red and white cars?

@questionasker123 i agree

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/compare @mochilate1897

was the pluto question no error?

^i think so. not sure, i only skipped two questions on writing (the octupus one and the one about maria) to come back to later. the rest i was pretty solid with, except the “them” questions. i said no error for both of them, that sounds suspicious to me though. oh well. i scored a 760 in W my first time, super score will look decent

i put B for maria and said incorporating was wrong but it looks like they’re both no error :confused:

for the comparable one, wasn’t only the the word comparable underlined, not the phrase comparable to?

comparable to was underlined

Well, we’ve already reached 1000 posts lol

Comparable to and comparable with are totally fine in that context

All I gotta say is… if you used Direct Hits for Vocab, that sentence completion was SUPER easy. :slight_smile:

exactly! that’s what i’ve been saying.

it’s like this- “shall i compare thee TO a summer’s day”

and

“bob’s homework was compared with daryl’s homework for traces of plagiarism”

when you compare two similar objects, it is compare with

@nervusguy Actually, the octopus question said “Some scientists say that octopus are the smartest of all invertebrate animals… blah blah blah”
I put the smartest of all as the error. The “all” is redundant because it already said “smartest”

Do any of you think you got a math variable section?