October 2012 SAT Discussion

<p>@ShootMeDown
I chose E. I can’t remember exactly what it said but it was the longer of the two and restated “energy expended during”. It showed complete parallelism, which I thought trumped the redundancy.</p>

<p>did anyone get 65 degrees for the question with the circle and the line “L” thats tangent to it and the circle inside has the 50 degrees angle ? and theyre asking u what y equals ?
is the answer 65 degrees ?</p>

<p>and for the question where AB = BC and A=x and B=y,
is the answer 50 for “x+y”?</p>

<p>Yes and yes.</p>

<p>i got 65 degrees for “y” (:
but i dont know what problem ur talking about for 8 rad3</p>

<p>Yes the answer is 50</p>

<p>What was the answer to the question that said to rewrite the sentence about the air conditioner’s exclusive use in private industry? I think it was either “the devices were used because their ability to…” or “Carrier’s device was used, where its ability to…”</p>

<p>i think its “superfluous” cuz the Greeks didnt need the writing system at first</p>

<p>“superfluous” means excessive and unnecessary
hope that helps (:</p>

<p>For the energy expended problem, it was:</p>

<p><strong><em>sentence</em></strong>_ “than that of the opposite direction” or
<strong><em>sentence</em></strong>_ “than in that expended in the opposite direction.”</p>

<p>There were two “in’s” in the second answer. This is a grammatical inconsistency, so wouldn’t the answer be the first one?</p>

<p>So far there were two I missed on the fill-ins, there was one I missed on the MC, and one I left blank on the MC. Can anyone estimate what my score will be?</p>

<p>i put the latter, because in the new paragraph you would/should restate the proper pronoun</p>

<p>@Flickor
Are you sure that first “in” wasn’t an “of”. That’s how I remember it.</p>

<p>i put the one that starts with “carrier’s device”</p>

<p>but i was stuck between that and another choice</p>

<p>Oh, that question. I had forgotten it.</p>

<p>There’s no problem with the “in” usage in the second one. The first one I didn’t like because of what it suggested that “that” meant. I can’t remember though, and I was unsure of my answer. The second choice was more wordy, but I could find no problem with it.</p>

<p>Yes it was two “ins” I am positive. The SAT emphasizes conciseness, so I put “than that of the opposite direction”</p>

<p>Thanks! That took a lot off of my mind!</p>

<p>No. It was “traveling in the opposite direction” and “traveling in that of the opposite direction”. I put “that of”.</p>

<p>Are you sure? there was definitely an “expended” in the second choice.</p>

<p>Pretty positive. . .</p>

<p>how many writing “correct as is” did you guys get?

  1. Andrea Merkel the chancellor
  2. Cuttlefish
    can’t remember the others, anyone else get these?</p>

<p>The Greek one might have been onerous instead of superfluous</p>