<p>nitcomp, my clumsy reasoning is:</p>
<p>“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.</p>
<p>^ well you’re both awesome :)</p>
<p>Anyone think of more Writing questions?</p>
<p>oh dammmmn it. i see your reasoning now. ugh -1 for writing i guess.</p>
<p>what do you guys think ill get for writing if i have a -1 for writing and a 10 for an essay. 780?</p>
<p>theskylitup:
do you remember what the other options were for that expectation vs. reality one?
btw, sorry haven’t replied to your pm. got a physics exam tomorrow and cramming :(</p>
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<p>No I don’t sorry, for this question I just zero-ed in on expectation vs. reality straight away. </p>
<p>(anyone else remember though- feel free to weigh in!)</p>
<p>but my reasoning for that was, the advertisements/brochure and the capitalised “Freedom!” stuff set up a high expectation which, when put together with the “oh and we only ever got to go to some sucky location my mother chose” created bathos (expectation vs. reality)</p>
<p>And don’t worry about the pm! I’m not fussed about that sort of thing, cram for exam first, and everything else later! (though i must admit, for me it was often the other way round, particularly during my “Study Vacation” for the national exams heh.).</p>
<p>Anyone remember a question with pragmatic intellectuals ?</p>
<p>And last CR section’s questions? University commercialism reading? 1st question was both passages…</p>
<p>@babo90 yes i answered that one pragmatic intellectuals</p>
<p>^^ yes, in the passage about the kind of intellectuals that the US institution liked, the passage was saying that US didn’t value the european notion of “learning for learning’s sake” and that american heros/remembered intellectuals have often been intellectuals with a practical purpose - ie. Edison.</p>
<p>hence - pragmatic (practical) intellectuals would be the answer. :)</p>
<p>Hmm well I do think it was expectation vs. reality. I really hated that section (caravan/rock). Was a very *** section.
Lol, thanks!
BTW, the mechanical question? Remember the context/choices anyone?
As for writing, and the gold medals that have got everyone fired up, I think quite positively it is “…,winning seven gold medals.” Reason: “decorated by” is an incorrect idiom. And it sounds quite messed up.</p>
<p>And “By telling them to” blah blah was most certainly wrong since there is nothing to be modified and that phrase is a modifier.</p>
<p>my pleasure lemon :)</p>
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<p>I believe it was a passage about how rocks weren’t as solid as they seemed, talking about the effects of corrosion, how dirt was made from clay which was weathered rock, and that the world around us reflected various stages of weathering.</p>
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<li>mechanical referred to rocks being shifted by mechanical forces underground, causing fractures. I answered that this meant an explaination of physical forces.</li>
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<p>Oh yes. I remember. Definitely should have been physical forces then. Do you happen to remember the other options? (Sorry lol, just seems you have a photographic memory!)</p>
<p>the writing was fairly easy this time. they didnt have any of those ‘extremely hard’ error identification questions like they usually do.</p>
<p>not to sidetrack, but where are all of you from?</p>
<p>im from</p>
<p>India!</p>
<p>i answered expectation vs reality too</p>
<p>guys i got an experimental reading section…pls whoever didnt can u check which one u didnt get. </p>
<p>There was 1) a blog one and i think the caravan
2) a french guy talking about wrting abt himself
3) university commercilization
4) a black man talking about reading when he was young. </p>
<p>This is rough but it would be obvious to ayone who hasnt had one of these so can u pls anser this so we can solve the mystery of the CR experimental. </p>
<p>Thanks everyone…</p>
<p>I got luck for writing but no for others lol</p>
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<p>Oh! That’s good to know! I answered “were they to”. I can’t reason my writing answers as well as you guys can (because seriously, we don’t teach grammar in Australia). </p>
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<p>No, sorry. 
My memory sort of works that I can really really clearly remember everything that I concentrate on, so in a test if I focus really hard on one thing, then I kind of block out the others. </p>
<p>PS. Everyone, I am an Aussie! (Australia) :)</p>
<p>Erm… I think most of us had CR as the extra one. Anyone NOT have CR?</p>
<p>was there ingratiate in SC
try to remember words of SC</p>
<p>Thanks to everyone! I’ve compiled a list. Hope it’s helpful
If there are more answers for Math and Writing, I’ll be glad to sort out the information</p>
<p>Section 1:
Paired passages
overstate the similarity between blogs and newspapers
blogs don’t explore subjects in enough depth</p>
<p>Passage about water
<p>Passage about a British family and their caravan
<p>Section 5:
Short passage
inflammatory</p>
<p>Passage about African American author
<p>Section 6:
Passage that was an extract from the french philosopher Montaigne
<p>Section 8:
2 passages about the commercialisation of universities
<p>Some other answers:
equanimity, conviviality, protean
centre’s obsolescence
convey the decline of the space program</p>