<p>Took a test this morning got 760 math 720 critical reading and 650 writing presuming the passage section that didn’t print I got all right. I really got destroyed in the last 14 q section I desperately need to study for that section. Also can someone explain this math problem I don’t get what it’s asking “What number exceeds 50 percent of itslef by 10” the answer was 20</p>
<p>hi jeffisaboss,
the question asks for a number that is 10 more than half of itself.
mathematically let the number be x,
x - (50% of x) = 10
or, x-0.5x = 10
or, 0.5x=10
so x=10/0.5
solving this we get 20. hope that helped.
fire some more questions and help us all practice :)</p>
<p>Yea we should all post. I’m drilling both math, and writing today. Im going through a lot of sections today and I’ll try to put up questions periodically or all at once. </p>
<p>Taking two practice tests monday and tuesday.</p>
<p>Im having two days of just review from my past tests on wednesday and thursday so expect a lot of questions then. </p>
<p>Then I’m taking friday off. By then its I know it or I don’t. A bit more studying won’t help me at all. </p>
<p>FIVE MORE DAYS!!! LETS GOOO!!!</p>
<p>Maybe I’m being too optimistic…</p>
<p>How do you guys score beyond 700+ on CR?? 
Any last minutes tips and tricks that you peeps use? English is my third language lol so I really need some help. My CR score is ‘fickle’ and ‘capricious’ :
Sometime, when god bestows me luck, I end up at 700. Most of the time, I have to ‘capitulate’ at 600 
5 days to go, and I am like “Please Jesus, I need luck!” while circling on the reading section.</p>
<p>Nebico, all of the answers are in the passage. The reason I know for why I myself get questions wrong is that I didn’t look hard enough in the passage to find the answer or I misunderstood something the passage stated. This is a skill that needs to be developed but miracles do occur…:)</p>
<p>WRITING QUESTION</p>
<p>The (increasingly) global character of publishing (has caused) editors to be simultaneously pulled in many different directions (at once), with authors in multiple countries (making) competing demands. </p>
<p>Answer will be in next post.</p>
<p>increasing
I think it should be adj</p>
<p>Also good luck boys!!!</p>
<p>That’s what I thought but it turns out that “simultaneously” and “at once” are redundant. Can someone explain why “increasingly” is correct?</p>
<p>umm is the error increasingly?
I feel it should be increasing instead. Am I correct?</p>
<p>Ah that’s tricky…
So does increasingly modify global?
“simultaneously” and “at once” are indeed redundancy.</p>
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<p>Can someone answer these questions again? I’m still a bit confused</p>
<p>Yea it is tricky. I got it from Erica’s multiple choice practice test. I don’t know if its a typo or some error we don’t know about.</p>
<p>the first or the second question?</p>
<p>Both. I need better explantations. </p>
<p>“Their” has no antecedent…right?</p>
<p>Why does “they” only refer to the hobbits and not the people?</p>
<p>the first seems quite clear, has led is incorrect - have led is fine</p>
<p>the second sentence is ambiguous but I have noticed a pattern in CB’s questions. If there is a comma, they/he/she have been accepted :D<br>
maybe a comma removes that ambiguity?
I don’t know the grammar, but I go with my ‘pattern theorem’ and get them right most of the times.</p>
<p>The first one,
Their refers to manufactures. If you change the sentence structure a little bit " trying to make their mobile phones xxxx, the manufactures xxxx" now it is blatantly clear that their refers to manufactures. It is the same in the sentence.</p>
<p>But isn’t it “manufactures’ attempts”? Its says no where in the sentence “manufactures” for their to refer to…</p>
<p>For the second one,
Would you say people exist as florescence?? I won’t because it doesn’t make any sense. So it has to refer to habits.</p>
<p>Ok I get the second one now because of Benjamin and the fact that it refers to humans later in the sentence.</p>