March SAT Writing Thread

Test Preparation SAT Preparation
501

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Here are answers to the non-experimental one.
The non-experimental one had the last 30-35 on octopus intelligence.

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Changed to medieval people. </p>

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<p>Consolidated Writing - not experimental:</p>

<h2>27 out of 49 identified.</h2>

<p>Section 3:
Sentence Improvement:
The emperor penguin [__], the average <em>standing</em> at 45 inches tall. Answer was C.
Ridges run along the range, <em>looking</em> like spines on a lizard’s back.</p>

<p>No Errors (There were 3):
Hikers that went through the forest with the canopy (top right of first page)
Indian writer that used colloquial English (middle right of first page)
Unathletic boy who became adept at Ultimate Frisbee (bottom left of second page)</p>

<p>Idiom Errors:
succeeded on –> should be succeeded at (bottom left of second page)</p>

<p>Redundancy Errors:
return back (top right of second page)</p>

<p>Subj/Verb:
lay —> lays</p>

<p>Tense:
Had went —> had gone (We had planned by doing blah, blah, and blah, but nothing had gone as we had expected.)
Have —> Had (medieval people had built concrete)
Helped nourishing —> Helped to nourish</p>

<p>Paragraph Improvement (about Octopus Intelligence):
Nevertheless —> therefore
Such behavior suggests planning, insight, perhaps even use of tools
Number 35 —> sentence should be placed after sentence 14. Answer E.</p>

<p>False Comparison:
three soloists in an ensemble (as a soloist should be soloists) Answer was D.
horse manes to horses- Error was horses</p>

<p>Section 10:
Last 5 answers were E - D - E - E - E
The caretakers served the children, preventing spills by giving each child only a little amount. Answer was B.
Elections as a result of either … or …
but, according to (other answers had comma splices)
Even though they hate each other, Susan and Maxime are good friends and they even write children’s stories together.
In order to succeed at geology, one must study actual rock formations.(Misplaced Modifier error)
Portraits question (last one) was misplaced modifier. Portraits comes before depictions. Answer was E.
“Were he to be given” is correct (Were he to be given money, he would have spent it all on technological effects.)</p>

502

<p>Was that choice D though?</p>

503

<p>Yes, it was choice D.</p>

504

<p>Nice, thanks!</p>

505

<p>is there usually an experimental section for each subject? or just math?</p>

506

<p>all subjects there is an experimental section, it just depends on each test.</p>

507

<p>for the 6 qusetion paragraph thing, one of the questions is changing the first word
i think it was from “it” to “this fact”</p>

508

<p>^Ah yes, I remember that one.
I confirm your answer of ‘This fact’ as changing the first word of the sentence.</p>

509

<p>Wait I had the romans question on section 7 which was experimental???</p>

510

<p>^
roman one was real. Sorry if the section 3 mislead you; it was to differentiate between 10 and the long one. It may have been different numbers for different people.</p>

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<p>Consolidated Writing - not experimental:</p>

<h2>28 out of 49 identified.</h2>

<p>Long Section:
Sentence Improvement:
The emperor penguin [__], the average <em>standing</em> at 45 inches tall. Answer was C.
Ridges run along the range, <em>looking</em> like spines on a lizard’s back.</p>

<p>No Errors (There were 3):
Hikers that went through the forest with the canopy (top right of first page)
Indian writer that used colloquial English (middle right of first page)
Unathletic boy who became adept at Ultimate Frisbee (bottom left of second page)</p>

<p>Idiom Errors:
succeeded on –> should be succeeded at (bottom left of second page)</p>

<p>Redundancy Errors:
return back (top right of second page)</p>

<p>Subj/Verb:
lay —> lays</p>

<p>Tense:
Had went —> had gone (We had planned by doing blah, blah, and blah, but nothing had gone as we had expected.)
Have —> Had (medieval people had built concrete)
Helped nourishing —> Helped to nourish</p>

<p>Paragraph Improvement (about Octopus Intelligence):
Nevertheless —> therefore
It -----> This fact
Such behavior suggests planning, insight, perhaps even use of tools
Number 35 —> sentence should be placed after sentence 14. Answer E.</p>

<p>False Comparison:
three soloists in an ensemble (as a soloist should be soloists) Answer was D.
horse manes to horses- Error was horses</p>

<p>Section 10:
Last 5 answers were E - D - E - E - E
The caretakers served the children, preventing spills by giving each child only a little amount. Answer was B.
Elections as a result of either … or …
but, according to (other answers had comma splices)
Even though they hate each other, Susan and Maxime are good friends and they even write children’s stories together.
In order to succeed at geology, one must study actual rock formations.(Misplaced Modifier error)
Portraits question (last one) was misplaced modifier. Portraits comes before depictions. Answer was E.
“Were he to be given” is correct (Were he to be given money, he would have spent it all on technological effects.)</p>

511

<p>Can someone phrase the romans question? plz</p>

512

<p>It was a long question, sorry. But I remember choice C having ‘but with which’ if that helps.</p>

513

<p>was something like had changed to have?</p>

514

<p>Yes it was ^</p>

515

<p>it would help a lot if someone could post the sentence of the concrete/roman question. How could it not have been “but with which”</p>

516

<p>Because choice D was in the wrong tense. Choice C ‘but with which’ is grammatically correct.</p>

517

<p>Why is the writing thread lagging so far behind the CR and M? To answer my own ? its probably cause its harder to remember or people don’t feel like it matters that much or people are just confident in their writing abilities.</p>

518

<p>It’s harder to remember.</p>

519

<p>Yea I mean 25 of the 49 questions are the Improving Sentences, and those are so hard to remember. </p>

<p>The Error ID I believe we’ve identified all that is necessary. </p>

<p>So the thread is basically done. Nothing to argue if everyone agrees. Consolidated answers are a few pages back.</p>

520

<p>Writing questions are much tougher to remember. There wasn’t even an attempt at a consolidated list for writing in January.</p>