<p>@lalala
According to past SATs, that should be around 760-770? Not sure exactly, though.</p>
<p>@IfailedtheSAT (haha me too)
It was the one with the plural, “them”? I don’t remember exactly, but everything else was singular.</p>
<p>@Ifailed
Rather than them</p>
<p>@IfailedtheSAT
I remember putting something like “them” cuz “drinks” was plural.</p>
<p>In regards to the “upon arrival” vs “when one arrives,” I believe it’s “upon arrival” because in the second fragment of the sentence, “one” is used again instead of “his/her.” I don’t think the SAT’s would use “When one arrives on the island, one feels [yadda yadda]” it sounds better if it were “When one arrives on the island, he/she feels [yadda yadda]” right? Why is “upon arrival” grammatically wrong anyway?</p>
<p>For the lawyer question, I chose “everyone except me was a lawyer.” Everyone is singular and it’s “me” because you’re not the subject (not sure how to explain the I vs me thing).</p>
<p>Also, what did people have for their essays? Aren’t there about three or four different prompts depending on the test book you receive? I got “Is it necessary to forget mistakes” or whatever. Hated it lol.</p>
<p>I believe it’s “when one arrives.” parallelism. the sentence uses the word “one” again</p>
<p>@oopp
The sentence was something like “___ on the island, Mount yadda yadda looms over blah blah, making one feel something.”</p>
<p>Therefore, it’s not too redundant.
Meanwhile, while placing “Upon arrival at the island, Mount yadda yadda looms over blah blah…” makes it seem like the actual Mountain arrived at the island to make one feel something rather than the person.</p>
<p>on the When one arrives, something is prominent from the distance…unless you say, When one arrives, then it becomes a dangling modifier.</p>
<p>If you put upon arrival, that would imply that the mountain was moving. Since the first word of the second sentence was Mount blahblah, the only choice that did not include an action was “when on arrives”</p>
<p>@oopp
The reason that “upon arrival” is grammatically wrong is that it’s modifying the mountain (which came right after the underlined part) when it’s supposed to modify the people who have arrived.</p>
<p>i talked about how the treaty that ended wwi basically caused wwii and caused the deaths of millions, then i talked about pablo casals (getting better at what you do ie cello or whatever)</p>
<p>@oopp</p>
<p>Subjects need to stay constant. If you start with “one does…”, you need to continue with “one does…”. “upon arrival” is wrong because it makes it seem like the mountain is doing the arriving.</p>
<p>I also had the mistakes topic.</p>
<p>I loved the essay prompt about mistakes haha. Had three examples I loved and I think it came out well. It was better than my last sat essay and I got an eleven on that one…</p>
<p>My examples are alwAys a little weird. Today they were:
Radiohead ( the band)
Eliot Spitzer (disgraced former governor of new York)
Billy beane (if youve seen the movie Moneyball you know him)</p>
<p>@Zeruel95</p>
<p>WOAH ME TOO!
I talked about the Treaty of Paris that ended world war i and stripped Germany of its army, land, and made the country pay huge reparations etc. and how we learned by WWII not to that again.</p>
<p>@meatkabob
:D</p>
<p>Oh okay, I understand. Is the prompt the same for everyone?</p>
<p>Agree with meatkabob.
Enjoyed seeing
Everyone except me was a lawyer
3 no errors (novel salt, something that sounded like a fact; science?)
Btw my writing section was #3
When one arrives, volcano question</p>
<p>What about the question about the chandeliers and the room.</p>
<p>I put NE for this one!</p>
<p>@iwannaSUCCEED</p>
<p>Oh right, I had problems with that one as well.
It sounded something like “Its chandeliers and mirrors made the room bright.”
Really awkward sounding :/</p>
<p>^ i said its was the error since it is an ambiguous pronoun</p>
<p>What did you guys put for the improving paragraph question about how many people needed to pay for expensive lawn care agencies?</p>