December SAT International Test Discussion

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These are the two most common answers and of course its a toss up between them. However my reasoning for choosing Urgent is as follows:</p>

<p>The question said “In the first sentence of the passage, the tone is…”
Note that it referred to first sentence (that is, in isolation) rather than “in context”. Therefore while the passage as a whole is reflective, the first sentence is urgent and gives a dynamic effect. </p>

<p>(Of course, I appreciate that other people chose reflective, and I’d love to hear the reasoning! I could very well be wrong). </p>

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I said that he admired the sense of well being it would impart. Originally I thought it might have been (A) Impressed by its stylistic achievements - but my reasoning is that stylistic achivements refer to the mechanics of books (ie. font, sentences, developments in actual writing “style”) whereas the passage focuses on the emotional benefits of books.</p>

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Naivete imo. </p>

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<p>Thank you and I hope you do very well too! In fact, I hope everyone here does very well :slight_smile:
Us internationals gotta stick together!</p>

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<p>centre’s obsolescence
I put “by winning 6 gold medals”. Why is it wrong? “by” is wrong?</p>

<p>@winning11
I put naivete
Reflective or Urgent one bothers me as well</p>

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<p>in the writing 35 Q the question 28
for more than …years …was
should was be changed to has been</p>

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<p>i put urgent, but i was torn between that and reflective too…</p>

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<p>agree on “he admired the sense of well being it would impart”
We gotta stick together. LOL</p>

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<p>by winning is correct because it clearly refers to mark</p>

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<p>winning11:</p>

<p>1) Urgent
2) Can’t remember this one
3) Naivete</p>

<p>I’m pretty sure “winning seven gold medals is correct”. It sounds better. I think “Mark Spitz <em>became</em> the most decorated winner of the Olympics <em>by winning</em> seven gold medals” would sound correct, though.</p>

<p>And was there a semi-colon there?!</p>

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<p>YAY im glad im not the only one who put ‘by winning seven gold medals’. i think that was the writing MC that i was most worried about :)</p>

<p>I also said that he admired the sense of well being it would impart, for the passage of the african american about the books. </p>

<p>i put ‘curiosity’ for the 'believing technology could change one’s life. how is it naivete?</p>

<p>i put urgent for the ‘takeover’ question.</p>

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<p>I remember thinking there was… (Or i could be hallucinating). lol.</p>

<p>In terms of flow - I thought “winning 7 gold medals” was smoother. The By “sounded” clunky. But then again, I’m not sure. </p>

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<p>It was naivety because naivety is childish gullibility, or childishly believing in something due to lack of experience/cynicism. Curiosity is a desire to know about things. Here the author was (amusedly) commenting on how his child self really believed the advertisements about the amazingness of Caravans. </p>

<p>PS. This thread has covered the CR pretty well, does anyone have loads of Maths or Writing the can remember?</p>

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<p>So what’s the characteristic of Alistair? Is it scientific or philosophical?</p>

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<p>i put scentific. he mentioned contouring colored maps of the different genes in europe and all that. sounded scientific to me.</p>

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<p>i put scientific since he talked about genes and stuff</p>

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<p>Writing, anyone else answered “By telling them” instead of “Were they told to” for the last/second-last question of section 10?</p>

<p>And scientific for Alistair.</p>

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<p>Does anybody remember a question that has options “Expectation vs Reality” and “Desire vs Need”?</p>

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<p>yeah, i wrote ‘by telling them’ too…i guess ‘were they told to’ makes more sense but it sounds more awkward…</p>

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<p>ah, yes i was confused about that one… but i think i ended up putting "expectation vs. reality’</p>

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<p>@ Erialc
I put Expectation vs Reality</p>

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<p>Eralc - yes, I remember, and i answered Expectation vs. Reality.</p>

<p>the question referred to the purpose/effect of the author talking about (the stuff in capital letters) vs. the reality of going to only 1 location.</p>

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<p>let me try to make this clear.</p>

<p>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”. </p>

<p>anyone with me?</p>

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<p>nitcomp - I like your explaination, and I hope you’re correct!! (because that’s what I put as well)</p>

<p>I’m with ya, AYE! :)</p>