Official 12/4 SAT II Writing Thread

<p>i know for the purport problem, purport is the error since it is supposed to be "propose." agree? purport is just nonsense</p>

<p>Damn, my proctor started off by reading the directions for the Sat I. Then he screws up reading the direction for Sat II and i didnt know i could go back to the essay after finishing MC.</p>

<p>Does anybody else not recognize some of the questions on here? </p>

<p>I know I did the last 10, so that's not the problem. But if I missed some earlier in the test then I would have gotten every subsequent question wrong. :( But I don't see how I could have done that, as I'm usually very careful about that kind of stuff and frequently check to make sure the number on my answer sheet corresponds with the number of the question.</p>

<p>Anybody else?</p>

<p>ah, well my proctor said at the beginning that she would announce when 5 minutes were left, then she never did .... (I know that I wasn't hearing things because others in the room were annoyed at the end)</p>

<p>I had a paragraph each on Nathanial Hawthorne's "The Scarlett Letter," Henry Thoreau, and P.T. Anderson's "Magnolia."</p>

<p>I said that sometimes the needs of the majority are immoral and unethical. Puritan society needed to repress sins like Hester's, but we see later that she becomes more free because of her transgression.</p>

<p>Thoreau's ethical need was in conflict with the need of America to pay for the American-Mexican War.</p>

<p>In "Magnolia," there is a character named Stanley who is a genius. His team needs him to play, for Stanley is the only one who can win. His father also needs him financially, because Stanley will receive a lot of money if he continues to win. However, Stanley's need to be able to be a child, to simply be himself without the pressures of his teammates and father, outweighs the needs of the community he is effecting.</p>

<p>i disagreed with the statement and wrote that if such a statement were true then majority groups will not oppress minorities. and i gave several cases of oppression (nazi, machiavelli's philosophy)</p>

<p>i started off the mc with E, A, A.....and somewhere in the middle i had 3 Es in a row. i also missed the rarefied one.</p>

<p>I wrote about my basketball team. That everyone must be willing to sacrifice their own needs for the good of the team.</p>

<p>Oh yeah and for that astronaut rarefied Question, i thought the answer was "more than" 6 miles....It cant be "more than" because it doesnt measure distance. It has to be "greater than"</p>

<p>with the first MC, was "had set" wrong?</p>

<p>i put that had set was wrong..</p>

<p>For the essay, I wrote that the needs of a large group of people are greater than those of an individual. I wrote about how in class, if one person was confused and monopolized all of a teacher's time, the rest of the class could falter without the proper guidance and instruction from the teacher...And then I wrote how firefighters, police, and people in the army, risk their lives, even though theyre scared, to protect and save a lare group of people.</p>

<p>"did anyone put D for one of the usage mc questions because the sentence was missing a "with"?"</p>

<p>yeah, I put D for that one.</p>

<p>For the rarefied one, I think it's greater than ___, but ... I think more than can also be used, so maybe I was too picky :(</p>

<p>also, for my essay, I wrote about personal sacrifices during war time (specifically the Japanese citizens who joined the American army during WWII - got the idea from Snow Falling on Cedars) and Martin Luther King's personal sacrifice to his community. Basically, my thesis was that by making personal sacrifices, we can bring about more unity in the community/nation/whatever. I'm just happy that I have time to write everything that I wanted + a conclusion (and fill in the entire space) :)</p>

<p>PS - I was thinking about writing about Caesar, since he pretty much completely neglected his personal life, but by the time I had thought of that, I was already half way through my second example :&lt;/p>

<p>For my essay, I used Ayn Rand's books (Anthem, The Fountainhead) and argued that individual needs must sometimes be placed against those of the community.</p>

<p>and yeah, for the rarefied one, it's "greater than 6 miles" because you use "greater/fewer" to compare numbers and "more/less" to compare amounts.</p>

<p>Brinestorm
My topic was on rulers and their subjects... therefore narrowing the topic into what it is.
Basically, I thought I should have at least one quote. So by that quote... Julius Caesar was not cowardly in the face of danger. Throwing away even his life for the good of his people.
Thus the rights of one ruler versus the good of his subjects.
btw, Brine you're wrong,
I was right about the quote..</p>

<p>last 10 was killer, other than that overall the test was pretty average.
actually the last six was like o_0 hard</p>

<p>About "purport," it is a synonym of "propose." Sorry about that.
To everyone who say they got lots of E's: I don't think there were that many (if by E's you mean sentences with no error). I don't remember paying attention to that specifically in the end bit, but certainly in the first few questions, there can't have been more than three—four tops. I recall one in the last section, and there may have been two, but I certainly don't think there were many. There were, however, several sentences with the sorts of errors that people often pass over, eg subject-verb agreement problems where the subject occurs after the verb and so is harder to see. I remember something where there was a singular verb whose delayed subject was "several." It's all so fuzzy, though; I went through the MC really fast, and didn't always read the whole sentence if the error was at the beginning.</p>

<p>hey Neobez!!! I talked about Holocaust and Dante's Inferno!!!</p>

<p>I did soooo horrible though!! no conclusion and for MC---> I don't remember many grammar rules.</p>

<p>wow Dante's Inferno.. that is deep stuff lol</p>

<p>Can you see if what I put for MC was right?</p>

<p>MC:
First one: Had set</p>

<p>Wasn't there something wrong with "had begun" in some question?</p>

<p>Sentence improvement: (second one)
As early as fifth century, [caves were carving] into .....
another choices was [caves carved]</p>

<p>I don't know why people were so confused with last 6. I thought the last part was easiest. #12-20 threw me off...</p>

<p>Also, i don't think "more than 60 meters" was wrong..</p>

<p>What was "newspaper purport" thing? I don't remember. Was it setence-error question?</p>

<p>Essay killed me. I'll be happy with 650+.. I didn't even get to write a conclusion.</p>

<p>Am I the only one who had a completely different essay??</p>

<p>Mine was, "Being able to overcome a conflict matters more than the conflict itself." I wrote about a summer vacation at my grandparents' home in Key West that was cut short due to a hurricane warning... we all got together, cleaned out the house, boarded it up, etc. Then we hopped in the van back to NYC. When we got there, it was announced that there would be no hurricane and we were happy that we worked together and would have been able to overcome the conflict if it happened... and that mattered more than the hurricane itself. I threw in some dialogue and stuff, too...</p>

<p>I thought the MCs were pretty easy, but some of the sentence correction questions were really confusing.</p>

<p>"Chrome-benzene steel, due to its molecular structure, can tolerate intense heat that will melt any one of its three elements when they are not combined." i thought it was no error on that one...</p>

<p>"A widely devious group of students from all over the world…" Diction error with devious?</p>

<p>"It took Sarah several months to decide between investing in the stock market or buying a new estate as a possible use of her inheritance." I put no error</p>

<p>"Gases become exetremely rarified at heights more than six miles, causing propeller planes to stop functioning." i was pretty sure its a diction error with rarified, look it up in the dictionary, it doesn't fit in context (i dont think)</p>

<p>Also, there was one that was like "[something] is not [something], nor is it..." is the error with nor? since nor only goes with neither?</p>