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<p>Is it A?</p>

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<p>The answer is 9
but i need an explanation</p>

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<p>So stressed…Teachers are piling on work oblivious to the impending January SAT. Working hard but need more time:(</p>

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<p>Dear diary:</p>

<p>I caught a pernicious cold this weekend, so I stayed at home today. And what better to do at home but a full-length practice SAT :D? </p>

<p>Ouch. It was a Pyrrhic victory. True, I somehow managed to finish the test without sneezing all over the test or passing out due to severe nasal congestion. But even though I finished the test, the results, were, at best, mixed. True, I managed to summon the endurance to stomach a nearly 4 hour long test, but I was mortified my the results I got. </p>

<p>The math felt easy, yet I missed 3. The writing questions felt a little unfamiliar, but I missed 2. The vocab was fairly easy, although 300 Essential Words did not prove to be as useful as it was on other tests. The CR passages were also fairly easy, although I managed to miss 6 (gasp!) on one section alone. Part of me wants to say that my ailment has addled with my test taking abilities. Another part tells me that ~2200 is just the status quo for me … =|. </p>

<p>Reminiscing, I really shouldn’t have missed the grammar questions. The two I missed weren’t hard - both tested trite concepts that I had seen numerous times before. As far as the math goes … I don’t think the concepts are as much of a problem as thinking clearly is. I should study vocab more, and I really need to step up my CR game, which has been lagging for the past two tests. </p>

<p>I’ll post the questions I missed later so you guys can mull over them. </p>

<p>Exhausted, and disappointed,</p>

<p>IceQube</p>

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<p>Here are the problems I missed:</p>

<p>[Math</a>, section 2, number 18](<a href=“http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/859/math1.png/]Math”>ImageShack - Best place for all of your image hosting and image sharing needs)</p>

<p>Willie Dixon’s upbeat blues compositions helped usher in the Chicago blues sound during the 1950’s and have become standard numbers for the many young rock groups trying to achieve popularity during the 1960’s. No error</p>

<p>“Innately organized circuitry” refers to … <a href=“here’s%20the%20context%20for%20the%20phrase”>url=Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language - Steven Pinker - Google Books;

<p>a) ways of teaching language that all parents use
b) rules children learn to apply to language use
c) differences in meaning suggested by complex sentences
d) children’s natural ability to process distinctions in language use
e) combinations of words occurring in all languages</p>

<p>A set has property X if t^2-t is in the set whenever t is in the set. Which of the following sets has property X?</p>

<p>(A) {-2, -1, 0}
(B) {-1, 0}
(C) {-1, 0, 1}
(D) {0,1}
(E) {1,2}</p>

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<li>E</li>
<li>B </li>
<li>D? (I only read the sentence with the phrase and the sentence before it so my answer may be completely off…) </li>
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<p>Are these right?</p>

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<p>You got all of them right. Would you mind explaining them?</p>

<p>Here’s another one. I failed at this one because I tried to find the slope of the line by dividing the height over age … </p>

<p><a href=“http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/4851/25427779.png[/url]”>http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/4851/25427779.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>1) slope ≠ height/age. Slope = Δheight/Δage. </p>

<p>2) The answer should have been obvious, given the close spread in height for ages 6 - 8. The graph would be leveling off … </p>

<p>See, I told you! My cold has thoroughly addled my brain =. And to think I don’t know what slope is despite the fact that I’m in differential Calculus … :mad:.</p>

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<p>For the first one, I did: <a href=“http://i.imgur.com/GYLG8.png[/url]”>http://i.imgur.com/GYLG8.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>For the second one, it’s supposed to say: “HAD become standard numbers” since the compositions during the 1950s would be considered in the past tense for the rock groups in the 1960s.</p>

<p>For the third one, I can’t give an explanation… Sorry. >__< </p>

<p>And for the fourth one, I got C. Is that right?</p>

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<p>That makes sense. As the sentence stands, uncorrected, “have become” signifies the present perfect which indicates that an action either occurred in the unspecified past or went on from the past to the present. </p>

<p>Using “had become” to signify the past perfect makes sense, because it signifies that the compositions became important in the 1950s, which is before the 1960s, when everyone started playing those compositions. </p>

<p>Whew! I need to brush up on my past perfects and my present perfects :)! </p>

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<p>I’m a little confused here. I see a circle with 1 intersection, a circle with 4 intersections, and a circle with 5 intersections. Or a circle with no intersections if you don’t count A, and one with 3, and one with 4. Can you elaborate?</p>

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<p>can anyone help me with 18, 19, 20, 27, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, and 36</p>

<p>Yea I know. I failed ;p</p>

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<p>Thank you <3</p>

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<p>^ Innately organized circuitry is means: Natural (innately) ability (circuitry)</p>

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<p>The answer to the set problem is not C.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://i.imgur.com/tjzjd.png[/url]”>http://i.imgur.com/tjzjd.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Sorry. I drew too quickly for this one.</p>

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<p>Ah, again. Stupid mistake. It’s D. </p>

<p>Both numbers in that set have property X. </p>

<p>{0,1}</p>

<p>0^2 - 0 = 0 (which is in the set)
1^2 - 1 = 0 (which is in the set)</p>

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<p>18) “Each” is singular. However, “consider” is a plural verb. Therefore, the answer is C. </p>

<p>19) Note the modifier. Who is the pianist? Rubenstein. The answer cannot be A or D because both start with the possessive of Rubenstein - Rubenstein’s. Of the remaining answer choices, E makes the most sense. </p>

<p>20) What’s the right answer? </p>

<p>27) D. “Being” is used incorrectly here. “Being” is generally used incorrectly on the SAT - so if you see “being” anywhere - it’s likely incorrect!</p>

<p>29) Correct as written. Note: about 15% of the writing questions are correct as written. Do not overcorrect. </p>

<p>30) Endeavor is not being used correctly. Endeavor means attempt. I endeavored to win the election. Substituting “attempt” in the sentence does not result in a logical sentence; “[She] became the first African American woman to attempt the presidential election.” </p>

<p>32) Powers is plural. That is singular. </p>

<p>33) It should be “has been and will.” Otherwise, the sentence implies that the Middle East has “a volatile part of the world.” No, the Middle East does not possess it; it is that volatile part. </p>

<p>34) No error. “To suppose it changeable” is correct; it is akin to saying “I consider the flower pretty.”</p>

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<p>Thank you :). So is A is indeed a point of intersection? When I was first doing this problem, I was confused as to whether or not I should consider A a point of intersection …</p>

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<p>Yes, the answer to the set problem is D. I made the mistake of choosing E because I only tested one of the numbers, when you had to test all of the numbers =.</p>

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<p>20 is A. I picked E tho :c</p>

<p>And thank you (:</p>

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<p>Let me reproduce the sentence below because the image is really fuzzy:</p>

<p>A great performance of a play both stimulates use to think and enlarges our capacity for feeling.</p>

<p>a) same (Correct answer - note the parallelism between “stimulates” and “enlarges” and the construction both … and)
b) stimulates our thinking enlarges our feeling capacity too
c) both is a stimulus to our thinking and an enlargement of our capacity to feel
d) is stimulating to our thinking and enlarging our capacity too
e) is both a stimulus to our thinking and enlarges our feeling capacity</p>

<p>I want to say that E is incorrect because of its faulty parallelism … but I’ll pass on this question and let an actual grammar guru assist me here :).</p>

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<p>Haha, it’s fine. I’ll ask my english teacher tomorrow. Thank you for the help again!</p>

<p>p.s. math wizards:</p>

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HOW? How do you solve this? Write down everything, find the volume per cent? </p>

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So It’s E and I got it right. But like is there a mathematical reason why? I just drew pictures to answer this question.</li>
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My mind blew up when I read this. What is this question asking and how do you solve it?</p>