<p>does anyone remember what the "polemic" question was about? I don't remember putting that answer.</p>
<p>It was a double blank sentence completion. It was resolute/polemic. It was about the guy being like resolute about his beliefs but not to the point where he argues with others.</p>
<p>Failed to verify a conclusion from me too.100% sure. He said "It is okay to be sympathetic, but one must go to their lab and write down data."</p>
<p>The writing experimental was the first one, if you had them back-to-back (the one with s.b.woo revision paragraph). .. i'm relieved, i thought the first one was harder . .</p>
<p>^^***...</p>
<p>i'm screwed then...lol :)</p>
<p>how do u know tho</p>
<p>lol sorry, maybe you did better than you thought?</p>
<p>I asked the other people with different experimentals which writing section they had, they all had the failure/success one</p>
<p>lol that's alright i kinda screwed the other one up 2</p>
<p>it's all sat's fault</p>
<p>I had two back to back, but the first one was about a chief justice?</p>
<p>did anyone get a para improvement about a dad who likes 2 do things the hard way?</p>
<p>anyone remember a writing question that went like "To those who heard the principal talk about budget cuts, it came as no surprise" what did you guys get for that? I got B, which underlined the had heard part.</p>
<p>I said No Error for the on about the principal. I'm pretty sure that E is correct.</p>
<p>Yep, ditto with RCMan13.</p>
<p>here are the highly contested questions:</p>
<p>the "principal" question: I looked up in "Princeton Review's, Grammar Smart" and it said that you need the perfect present tense (have, has) when you establish a relationship of something happening in the past that affects something in the present. Since the principal question was something like "to those who listened to the principal speak, the budget cuts came as no surprise" THe past actions affect the present so you use the present perfect tense instead of the past perfect which was in the original sentence. </p>
<p>Does anyone remember the question in the improving paragraph (i think it was the last questionm #35)? I remember i got "as it is now" for the answer but i dont remember the question. Anyone else remeember any more questions with "as it is now". Many people have been saying that there were 2 answers with "as it is now" but I only remember one. Help anyone?</p>
<p>No one but a fool... There is still a lot of debate and personally I put E but I guess it could swing both ways.</p>
<p>Precocious question. Pretty sure it was B because it was incorrect idiom. </p>
<p>Anyone remember the question in the improving sentence section where it was like "The villagers skated and did turns on the ice?" It was in section 7 of the writing section for me? Does anyone remember what they got for that? </p>
<p>Feel free to post any other questions that you can remember.</p>
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the "principal" question: I looked up in "Princeton Review's, Grammar Smart" and it said that you need the perfect present tense (have, has) when you establish a relationship of something happening in the past that affects something in the present. Since the principal question was something like "to those who listened to the principal speak, the budget cuts came as no surprise" THe past actions affect the present so you use the present perfect tense instead of the past perfect which was in the original sentence.
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<p>You use past perfect because the other event is in the past ["the budget cuts came as no surprise."]</p>
<p>I got "some RAN and SKATED" I think which was B.</p>
<p>Edit: Some people put "with some RUNNING and SKATING" so I'm not sure my answer is right, especially since I don't remember the context of the question exactly now. I believe I felt that there was something awkward about switching to the present tense at the end of the sentence...anyway maybe RCMan or desperado can clear up your doubts better.</p>
<p>haha, I got the running and skating answer or whatever. we've already had a big debate over it, haven't we?</p>
<p>EDIT: I'm not sure of my answer either. "and the strongest of whom" after a comma still sounds odd, but so does switching to present.</p>
<p>Yeah, but we didn't really unanimously decide on a correct choice because there were so many conflicting responses. I will probably be inclined to believe you anyway once you give me a rationale of why it was the "running or skating" answer. Are you allowed to switch tenses like that???</p>
<p>We've had such a big debate that I don't even remember which one I actually put down. :-)</p>
<p>I honestly don't know if you are allowed to or not. I picked it mainly because I thought the only other possible answer ['and the strongest of whom ran and skated'] was awkward and possibly incorrect.</p>
<p>I actually think the two verbs weren't 'run' and 'skate', but different ones entirely. I thought the words before the comma were "went skating".</p>
<p>Who knows. Only 11 more days until we can get our scores. :)</p>
<p>I'm thinking "with the strongest running..." is right:</p>