Official thread october sat 2013 test

<p>gotta bring up my CR!!! Got a 2240 back in March, but only a 680 in CR!!! (that pesky vocab!). Hopefully I know all the words in 1.5 weeks… Good luck to everyone else too!</p>

<p>Hi satman1111,</p>

<p>Were the vocabularies in the March test much harder than the ones in the blue book practice tests? What are you using to study for the words now?</p>

<p>StevenToCollege</p>

<p>Hey what section should I be studying for? I have around 700 for all sections as of now. Which one should I focus on more to improve my score quickly. I’m going to do math for sure but idk I’ve been struggling with CR for a long time and it’s not budging.</p>

<ol>
<li>As the investigation concludes, the debate over the origins of the scandal, the merits of the federal investigation, and the legal authority of the prosecutor have intensified greatly.</li>
</ol>

<p>(A) the legal authority of the prosecutor have
(B) whether the prosecutor has legal authority has
(C) the legal authority of the prosecutor has
(D) what the legal authority of the prosecutor is has
(E) the prosecutor’s legal authority have</p>

<ol>
<li>The reason the event was cancelled was not so much the poor weather as the lack of interest. </li>
</ol>

<p>(A) as the lack of interest
(B) than the lack of interest
(C) than because of the lack of interest
(D) but rather the lack of interest
(E) as it was lacking interest</p>

<ol>
<li>Although he was not elected as the captain, Omar has become the team leader, him being the most vocal and respected player on the team.</li>
</ol>

<p>(A) has become the team leader, him being
(B) is being the team leader because of his being
(C) is the team leader for being
(D) has become the team leader because he is
(E) has become the team leader for having been</p>

<p>Now please list some pro tips to score 700+ on CR and to avoid mistakes one can easily evade :(</p>

<p>9.A. parallel structure and subject verb agreement.
5.A. correlative conjuctions.
12.D. clarity of expression.</p>

<p>answers are:
9 C
5 A
12 D</p>

<p>the reason it’s Cin 9 is because the subjects is “debate” not all the listed thing that were debated over. therefore the verb “have intensified” should take a singular form “has intensified”.</p>

<p>Yup, sorry. My mistake. Sometimes I go through questions too quickly. :(</p>

<p>Okay, so I’ll be starting to post questions that I become stuck with in this forum, and you guys should do the same…we’re all taking the October SAT, right?</p>

<p>CollegeBoard Blue Book
Test 8 Section 5 #16
Can someone tell me why the answer is E and not D?</p>

<p>Test 4 Section 8 #15
Why is the answer not D?</p>

<p>@eagle4022: </p>

<p>It’s E because in lines 32-33, it says “and whole parts of the floor plan of the original villa have been shifted”, which implies that the floor plan is known. (or else you wouldn’t be able to tell that it’s been changed). So the answer is E), floor plan, but neither its height nor its details. It’s not D because we do know its layout.</p>

<p>For #15, it’s A because of the line “For that sort of pioneer, the West was not a new country being created, but an old one being reproduced.” so they’re REcreating a domestic haven.</p>

<p>it isn’t D because they’ve established that the young /don’t/ have a love of place, “their circuitry seems to include no domestic sentiment” and it doesn’t state that the migration is a process of instilling the love of place into them. Sure, they do disapprove of it somewhat (“how unutterably deprived!”) but it never says that they’re trying to force a love of place.</p>

<p>If you post confusion with questions, can you please provide the whole question so even people like me could learn. I don’t have the blue book. :
Anyways, my new trouble is this passage. </p>

<p>The tragic hero with Shakespeare need not
be “good,” though generally he is “good”
and therefore at once wins sympathy in his
error. But it is necessary that he should have
so much of greatness that in his error and ---- 5
fall we may be vividly conscious of the
possibilities of human nature. Hence, in the
first place, a Shakespearean tragedy is never,
like some miscalled tragedies, depressing.
No one ever closes the book with the feeling ---- 10
that man is a poor mean creature. He may be
wretched and he may be awful, but he is not
small. His lot may be heart-rending and
mysterious, but it is not contemptible. The
most confirmed of cynics ceases to be a ---- 15
cynic while he reads these plays.</p>

<p>Questions 8–9 are based on the following passage.</p>

<ol>
<li> As it is used in line 13, “lot” most nearly means</li>
</ol>

<p>(A) parcel of land
(B) great quantity
(C) fate in life
(D) motivation
(E) friend</p>

<ol>
<li> The passage suggests that a “cynic” (line 16) is one who believes that</li>
</ol>

<p>(A) Shakespeare’s plays are self-serving
(B) human beings can be ignoble
(C) heroes should be imbued with greatness
(D) tragic heroes are worthy of sympathy
(E) Shakespeare’s characters are unrealistic</p>

<p>I couldn’t even understand this thingy well enough and got both wrong :(</p>

<p>well, this is one hard passage. since I, like you, could no even begin I would use a plug in for the first question.
his “parcel of land may be heart rending…” doesn’t fit, material property is not mentioned. friend is not mentioned either and great quantity is too ambiguos (great quantity of what?). motivation and fate in life would both fit for me,but I would guess motivation since the passage talks about choices and not fate, but I could be wrong…is (D) correct?</p>

<p>I woud go with (B) for the second one since the definition of cynic is totally different than C and B. A is completely unrelated, and E…well I have no actual reason but B sound more like it (you should never do what I just did, go with the answer that only sounds right, but when you have no clue just guess)</p>

<p>answers are C and B.
You got the 2nd one correct. I like how you showed some logic in both. Hope I can use those on the D-day, thanks!</p>

<p>well i wasn’t sure myself…no problem:)
if you are really stuck try to narrow it down to 2 options, statisticly it’s better than skipping.</p>

<p>I’m ready to ball on this test 1400/1600 here I come, God Willing!</p>

<p>Took an SAT last night…got a 2020.</p>

<p>here’s one I was confused on.</p>

<p>Uncle Wetherbee, a croton character who sported a handlebar mustache, helped New York’s Tex Antoine chuckle out on his daily forecast.
(37) In Chicago, paper cutouts of Susanna South Wind
(39) battled it out with Nanook North Wind. Rain or shine, snowstorm or heat wave, the weather was relentlessly cute from coast to coast.</p>

<p>The battle mentioned in lines 37-39 is best described as</p>

<p>A) a technical dispute between coworkers
B) a bitter fight between former employees and be employees
C) a playful exchange between characters
D) a friendly rivalry between forecasters from different cities
E) a disagreement about how best to present weather forecasts</p>

<p>Why is the answer C and not D?</p>

<p>A rivalry, despite being friendly, is more competitive and bitter than a playful exchange. A playful exchange is “cuter”, just like the weather.</p>