October 2010 Writing SAT thread

<p>then which one question had the no error?</p>

<p>The tornado one was as a result of. First I put resulting,… but I realized that didn’t make sense after reading the sentence like 5 times because resulting would be saying the tornado was caused, and then resulted in change in speed and wind direction. But that doens’t make sense because tornado is caused after/by the change in speed and wind direction. So, I put as a result of, answer choice C.</p>

<p>I think the second to last question had to do with dense population of the Mayan peoples? I’m pretty sure I marked [dense] as the error though because it needed to be densely.</p>

<p>What was the answer for number…15? 14? on the first section?
It was the one with
“What was(A) the most surprising about… was(B) that …blahblah)”
I put A for that answer.</p>

<p>Oh and i had one no error.</p>

<p>nyem, i agree. i put dense b/c its supposed to be densely</p>

<p>^^ No. the answer was astonishgly
it said
“…astonishing dense population…”
astonishing is describing dense.
therefore, astonishingly dense population</p>

<p>What was the mammal question?</p>

<p>Yes, I agree with astonishingly. And I would like to say that I put “as a result of” for the tornado one but honestly don’t remember that well. I think I put B or C but that’s as much as I remember.</p>

<p>I remember the Mayan one having an error, I’m pretty sure, but I don’t remember if it was densely? If someone remembers the sentence that would be great.</p>

<p>And once again, I really don’t know why I picked indeed instead of by comparison, it just sounds better IMO.</p>

<p>wait just kidding, i meant astonishingly not densely lol</p>

<p>*** so far I’ve missed two. It was astonishing? </p>

<p>Do colleges consider suoerscoring within writing sections? </p>

<p>I’m feeling like 750 on this one but like an 8 essay… i got an 11 on my other essay in May though. ■■■</p>

<p>is there a consolidated list?</p>

<p>What’s wrong with starting a sentence with “what was”? I put no error for that one</p>

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Are you sure? I believe the phrase “more dense” was underlined…</p>

<p>Overall I would say the writing section was pretty easy. I got tripped up on maybe 4-5 of them, by tripped I mean I got it down to 2 choices.</p>

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<p>What’d you guys think of the essay?</p>

<p>I personally loved it because my main common app essay was applicable to it! :)</p>

<p>“The reason … [such …] … was [its …].”</p>

<p>I had NE. Overall, two NE’s in that section.</p>

<p>Yea sorry I meant astonishingly…I couldn’t remember that astonishing came before the dense population.</p>

<p>For the mammal question - “The reason the mammal skates is its horns turn gold”
I thought “its” was an error because it should be “because of its.”</p>

<p>I didn’t like the essay. I wanted a technology prompt :/. Hopefully I get a 10+. Last time I thought I was gonna get a 0 and i got an 11 haha</p>

<p>I got two no errors also.</p>

<p>Cant be, because if you say because of its, you have to put something like tendency after it.</p>

<p>what do you guys think a person would get on the essay if he or she interprets the prompt incorrectly, but writes a good, well structured essay completely filled up?</p>