<p>For the orcas? Well, it was “agility and memory”, which means that they were nimble - an example of that is the way in which they fit into the coves - that required agility. And then for memory, the text said something about their capacity to remember the convoluted shoreline. So that answer choice combined two orca characteristics.
I’d explain more thoroughly, but I don’t exactly remember what the question was.</p>
<p>^ but didnt it say that they were a difficult find…and amongst the least studied animals…and it also said that huge boats were used</p>
<p>As far as I can remember, they weren’t “difficult to find”, they were hard to access because, despite their ponderous mass, they managed to slip into difficultly reachable holes. </p>
<p>Don’t remember anything about being among the least studied animals. And if you think about it, that doesn’t make sense. There’s plenty of information out there on orcas compared to weird rainbow Amazonian frogs. Or something.</p>
<p>what were the answers given, because I chose the one that talked about there agility or something like that. Because if I remember correctly they made it a point to mention the length of the ship and its weight, and then juxtaposed it to the orcas.</p>
<p>The the Africa and America one was a bit startling.
Discursive seemed so delectably correct because it wasn’t used in its prime meaning. Both “discursive history” and
“uneven history” seem to be correct phrases when you google them.
-2</p>
<p>this question was a source of contention on the December 2009 thread, with people defending both answers but, I think in the end CB ruled uneven as right.</p>
<p>Yeah, it caught me off guard - especially since I knew both the words! But I guess there’s nothing much to be done, because on Dec. 2009’s SAT, there was the same debate but the CB graded “uneven” as correct.</p>
<p>Also, that diction writing question? Never seen anything like it. I wasn’t prepared for that. I marked it as “no error” even though I’d recognized there was something fishy about it:</p>
<p>[url=<a href=“http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/assure.html]assure/ensure/insure[/url”>assure / ensure / insure | Common Errors in English Usage and More | Washington State University]assure/ensure/insure[/url</a>]</p>
<p>“the USDA puts a sticker on their fruit to INSURE people of the quality blah blah blah”</p>
<p>-1 writing</p>
<p>Oh, and then, what about “a means of”</p>
<p>is that correct? I know it’s frequently used, but it seemed that the rule was specific to that very word. I wasn’t sure. I don’t remember what I said…</p>
<p>retrohippo, =_= don’t remind me of that one, I just finished beating myself up over that one. All in all the writing wasn’t hard just a bit tricky.</p>
<p>I don’t remember what I put for the “means of…” question</p>
<p>DMA017, do you know whether “a means of” is correct?</p>
<p>-2 writing. Could potentially be pulled up by the essay, but I don’t have high hopes there.
And -1 CR </p>
<p>(so far…)</p>
<p>I think a means of is correct, unless someone would like to challenge me on that.</p>
<p>I think the sentence went…using futuristic styles as a means of expressing…</p>
<p>Do you remember this one?</p>
<p>Since their advent and effective marketing …film rolls and camera… amateur photography…</p>
<p>Can’t recollect the sentence…</p>
<p>was that the one with parallel enumeration?</p>
<p>It was with the advent and effective advertising… I think it was a</p>
<p>Huh? The S/C with ‘uneven’ also had ‘dissimilar’ as a choice. I chose ‘dissimilar’, I’m confused why no one has brought up the choice as a possible answer. Was it that absurd?</p>
<p>The question didn’t contrast European and African history. It contrasted the path of the history.</p>
<p>I don’t know if that makes sense: the two continents’ histories were similar, in that they both had ups and downs. The word “dissimilar” would, I think, suggest that they had different paths.</p>
<p>I confused myself while typing this, so I might be wrong</p>
<p>dissimilar is wrong because the sentence said that both Africa and America had periods of x and y. So they had similar histories</p>
<p>Sad… I know I did bad.</p>