January 2009 SAT Writing Discussion

<p>i put A for fair and but for for hagio sophia</p>

<p>The answer for the last one was E.
Im 99% sure.
Does someone remember the sentences?</p>

<p>What mistake did you find in the World Fair question?</p>

<p>I personally found that using the word "those" is unnecessary and vague in the sentence. Overall, I thought choice A was fine as is.</p>

<p>Okay, the sentence was like
At the fair, Crowds were larger and more enthusiastic than</p>

<p>A- the crowds at the past fair had been</p>

<p>E- those at the past fair</p>

<p>I think A is right, but I might have completely mistyped the sentence and answers :P</p>

<p>does anyone remember the skate park question. was it several or was it its that was wrong?</p>

<p>For the World Fair ?, I chose E because the answer with "the past fair had been" seems wrong due to "had been", which seems to be dead wood.</p>

<p>If Invisible Monster has it right (and I kinda just zoomed over it), then the answer was probably E. Which means I now need to get lucky on that essay.</p>

<p>"1. You can't just reword questions in the way you see fit, it has to apply to original context."</p>

<p>I know, I was just showing that if you use the common method of switching the "order" of the sentence, it still makes sense. And if you use which, it doesn't.</p>

<p>But it seems like I'm alone on this one so you're all probably right, I must have misread.</p>

<p>"Had been" doesn't have to be there I think.</p>

<p>someone make a consolidated list!
(who has been keeping up with this thread because i know i haven't)</p>

<p>the hagia sophia one is actually E not C because parallelism isn't the error: it is not a "not only-but also" construction, and "celebrated for and celebrated because of" both work.</p>

<p>there were two Es - the oysters and the hagia sophia. the composer one is more, not most (comparison between two, Telemann and one of the other two composers).</p>

<p>Consolidated List (I'm missing a lot. Add on!)
Sentence Improvement
World Fair (as it is)
State Legislature (as it is)</p>

<p>Error ID
Supreme Court ("they are")
Composter ("the most of")
Oyster harvest (no error)
Hagia Sophia ("but because of")
Codfish ("they are")</p>

<p>Paragraph Improvement
Friends did not know how to go about making careers
"however" between med school and peace corps
The story was reassuring</p>

<p>Consolidated List (I'm missing a lot. Add on!)
Sentence Improvement
World Fair (as it is)
State Legislature (as it is)</p>

<p>Error ID
Supreme Court ("they are")
Composter ("the most of")
Oyster harvest (no error)
Hagia Sophia ("but because of")
Codfish ("they are")</p>

<p>Paragraph Improvement
Friends did not know how to go about making careers
"however" between med school and peace corps
The story was reassuring</p>

<p>BTW, anyone know what essay score you usually need in order to get 800 with 1 MC wrong? I'm dying to know...</p>

<p>Hagia Sophia is C</p>

<p>"Friends did not know how to go about making careers"</p>

<p>What was this question?? and the answers?</p>

<p>World Fair was e.
It was not A.</p>

<p>Yeah about a 10-11 should make it.</p>

<p>So was section 4(hard) or section 5 (easy) writing experimental? can anyone help</p>

<p>^ you should have had a long writing section about a NASA astronaut.</p>

<p>elaslawek-</p>

<p>ellaborate :P</p>