<p>^Yes and YES and yes - in that order ;).</p>
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<p>Really? A must be the answer…</p>
<p>10)c
20)e
the most recent one is B</p>
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<p>Whoops lol :o. Your right. </p>
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<p>Yes, NO, and yes.</p>
<p>Your answers are equivocal IceQube ahhhh</p>
<p>But on a more serious note that one has to be A because the idiom is differ from…</p>
<p>Anyone want to explain why the answer to #20 is E?? I chose A</p>
<p>Sorry guys. The correct answers are:</p>
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<p>10) C
20) A
last one: B</p>
<p>I’m really sorry for any confusion I may have caused. I guess my faulty memory is a signal that I need to go to sleep now :o.</p>
<p>Dear Diary:</p>
<p>Today was an okay day regarding SAT prep. In retrospect, I could have done a little bit more in terms of the mathematics section, but will really focus on that tomorrow. I feel like I have made great strides in the CR and writing department, and am continually growing and learning from the CC community. I plan to take a official PSAT CR test tomorrow, and I will post them on here, looking for explanations from you guys! :)</p>
<p>lol ok that’s better. Thanks for the answers though! Congrats on your writing sections; I haven’t got a perfect writing for the last couple of times I did sections. I am going to take one in a few minutes and hopefully I’ll get perfect! Oh and thanks for the new vocab word, verisimilitude – I’ll be sure to add that to my repertoire.</p>
<p>I just penned a 25-minute essay on whether compromise was better than conflict in resolving a situation. I think I went a little overboard with the patriotism though … judge for yourself ;).</p>
<p>Compromise is not the best way to resolve a conflict. Often times, a person or a group must take a hard line against someone or something, and refuse to compromise. We can see this pay off in the annals of history. </p>
<p>One immediate example that comes to mind is Rosa Parks. When she boarded the bus, she chose to sit in the front, the “whites-only” section. When the driver told her “we need this seat; now move to the back,” she refused to compromise, to give in, to cave to the injustices of the Jim Crow South. No. She stood for her belief that she, as a citizen of the United States, was entitled to a seat anywhere on the bus. She stood for racial equality. Her refusal to compromise might have landed her in jail that faithful day, but it galvanized the will of a young Martin Luther King, who started to coalesce a legion of blacks to vehemently take a collective stand for civil rights. Parks, by her unwavering determination provided the catalyst that would touch off a decade of agitation for civil rights. Parks made the right decision by not compromising on that Alabama bus that faithful afternoon. </p>
<p>An equally pertinent example is that of the American revolution. I cannot imagine where America, our great nation, would be today, if it were not for the revolution. Our revolution was heralded by the intransigent George I of England, who repeatedly stomped on our rights as Americans. He taxed us without representation. He imposed the tyrannical governor - Lord Del La Warr - on our colonies. He sanctioned measures that punished the harbor of Boston, thereby stifling its economy. Colonists, however, repeatedly tried to reconcile with the British, but it became clear - the British did not want to compromise themselves. Thus, we took it upon ourselves to correct the grievances and thus we engineered the American Revolution, the paragon of revolutions, the model for the later French Revolution. We launched a tide that washed away all vestiges of British control, and we built a government around the premise of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” We grew from that “shining city upon a hill” to a shining nation, a beacon of democracy, the paragon of civilization. With one deft stroke, our founding fathers painted America as we know it today - the land of the free. </p>
<p>Ultimately, compromise is not the best way to resolve conflict. As the esteemed Parks and the American Revolution show, refusing to compromise can lead to positive outcomes. </p>
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<p>How would you score my essay?</p>
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<p>And yes guys, I know I only have a week until the SAT, but I raided the library nevertheless today :p.</p>
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<p>Ha - verisimilitude is one of my favorite words and it’s very easy to remember since it’s SO unique. For those who don’t know the word yet …</p>
<p>verisimilitude - the quality of realism in a piece of art (literature, film, etc.) </p>
<p>The film lacked verisimilitude; it was psychologically unrealistic - when did men start gossiping about fashion?</p>
<p>Dear diary:</p>
<p>Today was rather productive. Tomorrow I will keep investing time into developing my SAT skills. The SAT is really a multi-front war. You have the math section, then the vocab, then the passage-comprehension, then the grammar, and then the essay - all in 3 hours and 45 minutes. If that isn’t a multi-front war, and I don’t know what is. </p>
<p>Tomorrow, I will work more on math from the various books I borrowed from the library and an old test I printed out :). I hope that my math skills have not atrophied given that I have not worked on math for a couple of days. </p>
<p>Tomorrow I also hope to put the finishing touches on my vocab and grammar. This is probably not going to happen, but what’s wrong with dreaming :p. I will also pen several essays tomorrow.</p>
<p>In desperate need of sleep,</p>
<p>IceQube :).</p>
<p>Dear Diary:</p>
<p>Not a good day. I spent much of the day not being productive. I did one practice CR section and one practice W section. I missed two on both; I am extremely frustrated. I missed a sentence completion where the answer was vacuous which means lacking in ideas or intelligence and I missed a passage based question that was a little equivocal; however, I should have got the correct answer through POE. On writing I made a dumb mistake with a dangling modifier and the other is posted below and I don’t exactly understand. </p>
<p>Tomorrow I will work with diligence and focus and wake up and do either the first or second test in the BB. Then I will study for my math test and review two chapters of that for the final. Finally, I will work on PWN THE SAT.</p>
<p>[The Comstock Lode, a rich silver and gold deposit, was discovered by the Grosch brothers, but it was] named after a grocer.
A. Same
B. The Comstock Lode, a rich silver and gold deposit, had been discovered by the Grosch brothers; but it was
C. The Comstock Lode, a rich silver and gold deposit, discovered by the Grosch brothers, but
D. The Grosch brothers discovered the Comstock Lode, a rich silver and gold deposit, but it had been
E. The Grosch brothers discovered the Comstock Lode, and it was a rich silver and gold deposit, but was</p>
<p>^A? </p>
<p>If this isn’t the right answer, which one is and why wouldn’t A be correct?</p>
<p>If it is the right answer, why wouldn’t B be correct?</p>
<p>Finally took a CR test today and for the first time missed none!</p>
<p>Have a go at this CR passage guys ;)</p>
<p>The big doors of the hotel are padlocked. So far nobody<br>
has smashed their glass panels. Nobody could stand to do
it because the panels mirror your own face as well as the
view behind your back: acres of chive grass edging the
sparkly beach, a movie-screen sky, and an ocean that wants 5<br>
you more than anything. No matter the outside loneliness,
if you look inside, the hotel seems to promise you ecstasy
and the company of all your best friends. And music. The
shift of a shutter hinge sounds like the cough of a trumpet;
piano keys waver a quarter note above the wind so you 10
might miss the hurt jamming those halls and closed-up
rooms. </p>
<p>Lines 10-12 (“piano keys . . . rooms”) convey
a feeling of </p>
<p>(A) lightheartedness
(B) bewilderment
(C) melancholy
(D) nostalgia
(E) detachment</p>
<p>^E Detachment is my final answer</p>
<p>^Try again. If it makes you feel better I chose E too.</p>
<p>Really? Wow. I thought detachment makes the most sense there because he/she is detached from the hurt jamming the halls. What was the answer? Maybe lightheartedness?</p>
<p>^The answer is C - melancholy - which I fail to understand.</p>
<p>Detachment makes the most sense IMO, which book are you getting this question from?
Support for detachment: “might miss the hurt jamming those halls and closed-up
rooms.” - This means the author feels that the piano keys help him/her become detached from the pain in the halls.</p>