Official May 2008 SAT discussion

<p>^^ What was that? (If you remember?)</p>

<p>^We had a discussion about that in the 'tough writing' thread... go read it.
'NEED' was used an auxiliary verb here.</p>

<p>Just like you can't say 'ONE NEEDS NOT'... you can't say 'SOMEONE NEEDS NOT'. Instead you have to say 'ONE NEED NOT'...</p>

<p>ok. I'm in the same boat as you narcissa. Some people say that the need not one had an error because it should of been needs not. Please convince me otherwise.</p>

<p>No, Silver, it doesn't need a correction because need is a modal verb/aux verb there which does not change with regard to singular/plural subjects (I got this wrong :'( )</p>

<p>Yay!!! People agree with me. Now I feel special again</p>

<p>so the need not was wrong or no error?</p>

<p>:( if it was no error, i got it wrong. oh well..... ACT > SAT anyways.</p>

<p>I put no error. Need not sounded right.</p>

<p>What would the scores be for </p>

<p>-0 Math (obviously 800)
-1 CR
-1 Writing with maybe an 8-9 essay</p>

<p>?</p>

<p>Thanks (I'm not sure about those misses in writing and CR anyways, could be from 0-2)</p>

<p>i thought it was alright overall .. writing was the easiest section for sure, except for the one weird one about quinn taking dan to someone's house or whatever ... i put E initially and then changed it to D because i thought it should have said </p>

<p>"quinn took dan to don's house for a visit, never imagining that it would be five years before he would see him again" </p>

<p>instead of</p>

<p>"quinn took dan to don's house for a visit, never imagining that it would be five years before seeing him again"</p>

<p>because it never said who was seeing who ? and that kind of threw me off .. and i figured since there was the "it would be" conditional part of the sentence, you would need to finish the sentence in conditional as well..but maybe im totally off here.</p>

<p>^you are right, neeraja </p>

<p>also feed no i dont remember the xact wording of that question sorry :p</p>

<p>yeah i put no error for that one too .. need not is correct
everyone's been talking about the spate/paucity one .. i put spate because ive heard the term spate erosion before but im not sure what the sentence was</p>

<p>The sentence was about scientists speculating about erosion due to the _____ of craters on Venus. The correct answer was paucity, which means scarcity. I omitted that one.</p>

<p>What was the answer for 1-k</p>

<p>k. 10 char.</p>

<p>yup k. plug it in if u dont believe</p>

<p>What do you guys mean by this "k" question?</p>

<p>whats the y value of f(x)=a(x-k)</p>

<p>it's "whats the lowest y-value of f(x) = a(x-k)^2?" However, you are trying to plug in "x"</p>

<p>answer is "k"</p>

<p>^aha your rite..i was so off</p>

<p>yup i was gettin stressed then i saw that k was a choice and was SOOOO happy. lol</p>