June 2009 SAT Writing!

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<p>Mark Spitz was winning seven gold medals…</p>

<p>lol y do i remember putting a choice with a semicolon for this one was that even a choice?</p>

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<p>I think that post was with reference to the question, i.e. not altering the first part of the sentence (Mark Spitz was the champion, or whatever it was).</p>

<p>wait redcatharsis… was that an 800 with an 80 on the multiple choice section?</p>

<p>anyone remember the speed skater question? wat did you all get for that? and wat is the consensus on the last question?</p>

<p>I think that’s the one we’ve been debating for five pages…lol</p>

<p>BTW, for the one about pasta making devices, do you guys remember what the mistake was? I think something was wrong with the verb - like using a singular verb when devices was plural?</p>

<p>noo, you guys have been discussing the “swimming” question, not the speed skater one.</p>

<p>Asking for “the one about such-and-such” won’t do any good for me haha, you’re going to have to state the exact sentence or at least something close to it</p>

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<p>You can get -2 to -3 from MC if your essay is an 11. Even more, I think, if you have a 12 essay.</p>

<p>what would be the score with a 8 essay and 1-2 mc wrong?</p>

<p>@LolyGAGHa: I scored 8 on essay, and got 76/80 (two wrong) on MC, and got 730 on Writing last December.</p>

<p>Btw, anyone can tell me the exact wordings of the June test’s essay prompt?</p>

<p>well so that means they can be wrong then?</p>

<p>i looked over 5 pages of text and there doesn’t seem to be agreement…</p>

<p>i put ‘piercing teeth’ because 1. i thought ‘piercing’ when used as an adjective describes a shrill sound, not something that is physically sharp. </p>

<p>but dictionary.com says</p>

<p>loud or shrill, as the quality of a voice.
2. extremely cold or bitter: a piercing wind.
3. appearing to gaze deeply or penetratingly into something: piercing eyes.
4. perceptive or aware; acute: a piercing mind.
5. sarcastic or caustic; cutting: piercing remarks. </p>

<p>piercing eyes?
is that the same thing?</p>

<p>also for those that say its a matter of parallelism i don’t see that because it’s not used as a verb</p>

<p>someone please clarify ):</p>

<p>the one with piercing teeth is the real one. for me it was the latter writing section. (part 6?)</p>

<p>@high</p>

<p>So yes , I think “piercing” is correct in the sentence. (Thus not the correct answer).</p>

<p>The main debate was whether “one of” was grammatically correct and I thought we decided that it should be changed to “some of”</p>

<p>hey guys, do you remember a sentence correction that had a word underlined “more?” Do you remember putting this as a mistake since the sentence was comparing three things and not two? I guess my question is you can’t use “more” with more than two things, right? Then you need a superlative “most”…I think?</p>

<p>^Yes Bee and I think I remember I put “more” too</p>

<p>^^^ I agree too. I vaguely remember it, but I remember it was b/w two items, not three so it was more.</p>

<p>na it was 3 items…I clearly remember it</p>

<p>So then rtgrove and beautifulnerd, are you guys also saying “more” was wrong? If it was three objects (as I remember it), then it had to be wrong.</p>