<p>I practiced using the 10-11 official college board practice test. I have a problem in #26 here: </p>
<p>Most of the hypotheses that Kepler to explain physical forces were later rejected as inconsistent to Newtonian theory. </p>
<p>The underlined parts were</p>
<p>(A) Most of
(B) the hypotheses
(C) as
(D) inconsistent to
(E) no error. </p>
<p>I answered no error, but the answer is (D) inconsistent to. </p>
<p>Why is the "inconsistent to" phrase wrong?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>“inconsistent with” is the correct phrase.</p>
<p>it’s a faulty comparison. The first part is comparing the hypotheses to Newtonian theory. The first part comparing hypotheses should be comparing hypotheses of Newtonian theory: not Newtonian theory.</p>
<p>Thanks, MITer94. </p>
<p>By the way, if the reason is that simple, how did this become a level 5? Is it because few people could easily spot the inconsistent to mistake?</p>
<p>In this test, I got 45.25/49 in the writing section. My other 2 mistakes are two level 2 questions that I missed because I did not read all of the answer choices.</p>
<p>I’m not sure.</p>
<p>My guess is that the harder writing questions are supposed to be trickier; i.e. all of the answer choices could possibly be correct. But I was easily able to rid A and B. C was a little iffy for me, but I knew “inconsistent to” was incorrect. So I don’t really know why it’s a level 5. It’s probably due to the reason you suggested…</p>
<p>Also, I’m no grammarian (only scored 680-ish on the writing part). So I might occasionally miss problems others find easy, and get ones that are classified as harder.</p>
<p>Hey, that’s quite good. What was your SAT score breakdown?</p>
<p>Superscore: R-610, M-800, W-680</p>