<p>Please, someone with a 750+ in writing, could you offer some tips or tricks for catching SAT writing no errors? Last time I took the test, 3/5 of my wrong answers were no errors that I found errors in. How can I steer clear of CB's awkwardly worded, fourth grader sounding, although grammatically correct sentences and score big time. I noticed that many No Errors deal with verb tenses that sound suspicious, but are nevertheless grammatically correct.</p>
<p>I take again Nov 3.</p>
<p>Well I only get like 760ish. But did make up a little trick that does sometimes help.</p>
<p>The No Error questions tend to ‘look wrong’. Of course this is why you pick the error instead of picking (E), but what I’m trying to get at is a lot of the time those questions contain more than 1 option that ‘looks wrong’, and the extent of how wrong they look is similar (which if why you might sometimes find yourself trying to figure out which is more wrong). So if you find a question that has two options that you feel are wrong, it is likely both are correct, because remember, the test maker wants to keep you from picking E, so he sometimes adds a double hurdle. </p>
<p>Another thing that helps is knowing that the test makers can and do sometimes use ‘idioms that sound wrong’ to trick us into picking the idiom if we don’t know it. So knowing idioms does help, and I would definitely suggest that you look up some idioms commonly used on the SAT (I personally read the whole GRE list); this won’t take much time and will also give you a sense of what idioms tend to be like, so even if you don’t know the idiom in the option that looks wrong, you might be able to guess that it is indeed an idiom.</p>
<p>Hope this helps!</p>