<p>I still don’t understand. What is the PRIMARY thing being produced that is, as a SECONDARY result, changing him? That’s what I thought a by-product is. I think I’m overcomplicating this lol. Because I didn’t think by product as just the change in something from something stationary, I thought it was the secondary change of something as the result of the production of something completely different. Any help would be great, thanks!</p>
<p>@wchristen89
From Oxford Dictionary website:
byproduct–
- An incidental or secondary product made in the manufacture or synthesis of something else.
OR
1.1 A secondary result, unintended but inevitably produced in doing or producing something else.</p>
<p>Keyword is “doing” in definition 1.1. What he is “doing” is “being a newcomer,” and the unintended, yet causative, consequence of this primary action is his detection of the hum of the collective organism.</p>
<p>I don’t know if my reasoning is accurate or not, of course, but that’s how I approached the question. He doesn’t come to America with the expectation of experiencing the superorganism’s hum, and thus it’s a byproduct of him acting on, and existing as, a separate focus.</p>
<p>I put unverifiable first but changed it to consequential at the last minute. I put consequential because I used the definition: the result of something. However theres another meaning to consequential- significant and that’s what dark matter is so I was probably wrong. I was wary of unverifiable because I remember the passage saying astronomers know it’s there but they had no hardcore proof I think. But that doesn’t necessarily mean dark matter is unverifiable? tbh idk</p>
<p>I’m confused how the dark matter was considered unverifiable, the passage said the scientists knew what it was and knew what it was doing.</p>
<p>wasn’t the question an “EXCEPT” question? The author indicated everything about dark matter except “unverifiable.”</p>
<p>For the female traveler question that had the choice “during her trip” and “change that ranged to ranging” does anyone remember the exact sentence to be fixed? </p>
<p>I’m almost completely sure it was changing “that ranged” to “ranging.” It was probably a missing antecedent question since “that” can’t refer to to verb. </p>
<p>Was it an “except” question? Aw man D: D:</p>
<p>@humbugs I think it went something like: "“She went from country to country, riding transportation that ranged from blah blah to blah and blah.”</p>
<p>Maybe “that” referred to the transportation?</p>
<p>Either way “that ranged” seems fine since “that” appear to refer to a noun</p>
<p>@Jarjarbinks23 hmm maybe. </p>
<p>Yeah it was an except question. I thought the reader implied it was unverifiable because scientists knew it was there but had no hard core evidence to prove it. I put consequential because of the definition I used but there is another definition of consequential which I pointed out so I could very likely be wrong. I’m just pointing out the dilemma I had</p>
<p>I’m certain the writing section question was “during her trip” because the sentence needed a transition.</p>
<p>@Jellybae I think the author implied that with a few discoveries (he compared it to copernicus’s theory right?) it would be verfiable. And the author also said that there was something “missing” that couldn’t be explained without dark matter. </p>
<p>Yay, -1 writing for me :-< </p>
<p>@humbugs im fairly certain the answer was to add “during her trip” to the beginning of the sentence. It kind of abruptly switched topics. I even had a hard time understanding what the author was saying until I inserted “during her trip”</p>
<p>Did anyone order the question and answer service? I’m really curious what the answers were to these.</p>
<p>I thought you could only order that in certain months @humbugs Is June one? :o</p>
<p>Do you guys think the curve will be nice? I found this CR section to be harder than any other I’ve taken in practice tests. (mainly due to answer choices)</p>
<p>@Jellybae I don’t know there were certain months! I thought all released tests were Q&A tests </p>
<p>@LOLBeast1 I think there were trickier answers, but easier passages to read. I think the curve will be standard. What do you think the writing curve will be?</p>
<p>I hope so Beast. 
There were more answer traps on this one than in March but March had harder and more confusing passages. The March cr curve was borderline harsh though so I’m expecting an average one for June </p>
<p>As for writing, I’m expecting it to be the same as always, if not a bit harsh since this one was fairly simple. (But then again I thought so about March and did horrendously on the writing so don’t trust me)</p>
<p>I ordered the Q&A service.
Honestly, after nearly every test it seems like people like to inflate the CR difficulty level. When I took the January test, people were predicting -3 800 and such. The curve ended up being comparatively harsh. At this point for the curve, hope for the best but expect the very worst.
Regardless, any projections of the Math curve? 
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<p>I’d say Math would be average, if not just a little bit lenient because of the line question, the fish question and those directional squares. I nearly burst out laughing during the test when I read the fish question because why would you lie about a fish???</p>