<p>this question is driving me crazy. could any1 help me out with my previous post?</p>
<p>sorry, i have no idea. i don’t remember a question like that
bump</p>
<p>The question was probably something like:</p>
<p>Mark Spitz was a celebrated swimmer in the 19XX olympics ____________.</p>
<p>And the 2 most common answers we were considering were</p>
<ul>
<li>by winning 7 gold medals</li>
<li>,winning 7 gold medlas. </li>
</ul>
<p>There have been good explainations for “,winning 7 gold medals”</p>
<p>
[QUOTE]
the answer to the “gold medals” one was undoubtedly “winning 7 gold medals”</p>
<p>“by…” would render a prepositional error, falsely writing “decorated by”. it should have been “decorated with”, but, as there was no “with”, we had to have a comma somewhere to compensate for the “with”.<a href=“nitcomp”>/QUOTE</a></p>
<p>
[QUOTE]
“By” is wrong because it is an explanatory word, necessitating that the phrase that comes before it discusses a process, which in this case it doesn’t: “Mark Spitz was the most decorated winner of the Olympics” is a state. If the preceding phrase was something like “Mark Spitz <em>became</em> the most decorated winner of the Olympics”, then I think “by” would have been correct.<a href=“peaches134”>/QUOTE</a></p>
<p>incredible! thanks so much. my fading memory tells me that’s from section 10?</p>
<p>also, was the passage on the african-american author part of the experimental section? what about the one on houston program? thanks for any help once again!</p>
<p>I also want to know about Huston program. Does anyone remember the questions for this short passage?</p>
<p>“direct quotation” --answer for the two passages about university commercialization. can anyone recall the other options?</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone!</p>
<p>delayed scores, EURGHHH. anybody else from australia get delayed scores?</p>
<p>Same - delayed. :(</p>
<p>^^ same Sora - blerrrgh!!! So annoying! Plus nothing good on the telly either.</p>
<p>WHAT IS THIS SHIZ!??!? HUH!?!? HUH!?!??
i heard somewhere that for internationals that if ONE person from your country screws the tests the whole lot gets sent down to bottom of marking pile. or maybe i mishead. but seeing that im not the only one… *SPECULATION IS RIFE.</p>
<p>But we’re not all from the same country here. </p>
<p>Sci-Fry for example is from the UK - PS. HUGE CONGRATS for Oxford!!! 
:D</p>
<p>So excited for ya buddy!</p>
<p>WHUT? OXFORD? belated congrats. =]
hangon, does that mean us random internationals have delayed scores?
think of the probability of that… pshh, so much for the ‘small percentage’.</p>
<p>CR 730 M 800 WR 730
2260…</p>
<p>Below 2300, but still a good score. I’m happy</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone!</p>
<p>CR 720
M 740
WR 610</p>
<p>:(</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone else though!</p>
<p>740 740 740…tragic math score- -anyway~superscored finally slightly above 2300~good luck to everyone!</p>
<p>Jesus @Erialc are you sure you didn’t take any notes from the test center lol??</p>