<p>Could anyone help me with these? I've gone through a good amount of review books but I'm not sure how to tackle these completely. I score usually perfect on the rest of the writing section from the blue book, but this section always slaughters my score.</p>
<p>I always seem to jumpy and name an error even when its a no error, as apparently when I corrected my practice test all the identifying sentence error questions i got wrong had the correct choice "E" -__-</p>
<p>Anyone have any last minute advice on how to defeat this annoying section?</p>
<p>Lol, I always over-identified sentence errors in the past, too. I think it happens because the CB sometimes includes some sentence structures that we don't regularly hear in everyday conversation, so even though they may be correct grammatically, they sound weird to us. </p>
<p>My personal experience is that for the questions I accidentally found errors for (correct answer E), I always initially thought the sentence sounded OK, and then kept rereading it and overanalyzing it until I convinced myself that I had found an error. So my only last minute advice would be to go with your gut for questions you aren't sure about.</p>
<p>For sentence error questions where the choice you <em>want</em> to circle is an idiomatic expression that you may think is being used incorrectly, I suggest that you circle it, do a couple more questions, and then come back and read it again with a fresh mind. With idioms, the more you reread them and think about them, the more you're going to start to think true idioms are incorrect and unidiomatic expressions are correct. I remember that on the Oct SAT there was a question on the experimental section where one of the answer choices was "contributor towards". At first, I thought "contributor towards" sounded awkward and unidiomatic. My instinct told me that "contributor for" and "contributor to" were the correct phrases. But I kept saying "contributor towards" to myself until I actually thought it was correct. Luckily, I came back at the end of the section and decided to go with my initial thought, and circled the idiom as incorrect. IMHO, if you agonize over an idiom on the test, you inevitably end up getting the question wrong D:! Just do them quickly by ear, and move on.</p>