Nov 5 2011 *Official SAT Thread*

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<p>was this the exerimental section?</p>

<p>The answer was 210. Do you remember the answer to the g(a) and f(a+1) question? 0,1,2,3, or -1 i think</p>

<p>there was a question (in writing I think) that was something like this:
(identify error) young author… received an award… something that seasoned writers rarely achieve.
I put “rarely achieve” as the error because it should be past tense? </p>

<p>there was something with “had lain”…I put that as the error but I’m not sure.</p>

<p>I remember putting down had lain down also. but it probably is wrong.</p>

<p>i dont think had lain is wrong… since the past perfect of lie is lain… and i put no error for the “level of recognition which even seasoned authors rarely achieve”… idk why… does anyone have legitimate reason for the answer to that problem?</p>

<p>Since it’s pass tense it has to be achieved, not achieve</p>

<p>it said she achieved a level of recognition which seasoned authors rarely achieve… doesnt achieve have nothing to do with the actual sentence? like, i’d say, “i swam a 5000 yard freestyle which Michael Phelps rarely swims” wouldnt i? gah idk</p>

<p>^ no it doesn’t…its describing her achievement which happened in the past and comparing it to something that happens now- no error</p>

<p>what was math experimental?? I had an extra mathh</p>

<p>Can someone tell me exactly what the math ellipse question was.</p>

<p>what’d u guys get for the ellipse question?</p>

<p>Wasn’t something like (PR)(QS)pi/4 = the area. So then (PO)(QO)=pi/k. Oh being the centerpoint of the ellipse. K is 1 for sure, but for some reason I don’t think I put 1 down… Well hopefully I did.</p>

<p>sorry to digress, but what’d you guys put for the one with for the scientific understanding, the author of the passage says that “success coming from mistake is a truism” is… commonplace? it was one of those “tone” kind of questions…</p>

<p>what’d you guys also put for the one where the one with positive reinforcements and incentives to train humans and animals… it gave a line, "when a mother says “Good girl!” you almost expect to hear the girl respond, “Woof!” and it said the purpose of this line is to… </p>

<p>i was between the one that had the word irony in there but i chose “shows an undesirable situation blah blah blah”… :(</p>

<p>^ i think it was confirmed that it was humor for defense</p>

<p>confirmed for what? the truism one? was that an option?</p>

<p>Hmm, I put commonplace.</p>

<p>I don’t understand how it is humor for defense. What was the author defending? </p>

<p>FWIW, I chose the ironic answer.</p>

<p>i put commonplace too… since the idea that mistakes bring about success is “commonplace” or widely applied to… idk gah</p>

<p>and i have noooo idea why it’s defense. i too felt like it was not defending anything but further explaining the degrading nature of reinforcing behaviors… if anything, i was going to put irony underscores the SOLUTION but i thought that this wasnt much of a solution, but rather a problem… so i chose that this line shows an undesirable situation…</p>