SAT - January 2011 International discussion...

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<p>for the passage on the diet of americans post WW II, i took the view tt the technologies ans was completely out of point. </p>

<p>Quote from the Nov thread:
"the post-World War II food industry, bursting with tricks it had learned for feeding soldiers overseas, was eager to train Americans “to develop a lasting taste for meals that were a lot like food rations”—dried, reconstituted, indestructible. The offerings included dried wines, a potato snack called Tatonuts that was touted as having “strong resistance to weather conditions,” canned hamburgers, and—I swear—frozen concentrated mineral water "</p>

<p>the focus is on the eating habits of americans n not the technologies employed (if there is any in the first place, there was no allusion to such an effect)</p>

<p>i chose “food industry needs to make food cheaply and efficiently” or something along tt line…</p>

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<p>@glacial sadly i dun tink so</p>

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<p>Well she made an assumption from what she had seen. She didn’t just “imaginatively speculate.” It was more in a somewhat scholarly manner, and the assumptions weren’t so “minute.” I can remember them being quite a bit.</p>

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<p>@glacial one of the choices (i cant rmb if its c or d) was a good introduction to what is meant by the term “soaps” …</p>

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<p>@ibro u cld b right - i m unable to recall the pertinent contents of the passage so if she has indeed cited a scholarly article or something along tt line…in my perspective, she was observing it v closely, making notes or summarizing…</p>

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<p>i think it said somethin like, soap operas, also called soaps and a definition of it. Does anyone remember the exact question about the speculative imaginative one? I put that but can’t remember the question.</p>

<p>Btw, who of you took this test as his first SAT? who already took some before? Personally, it was my second and final time.</p>

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<p>WHAT??? does that mean that this month’s sat was exactly like the one in November 2008 :O</p>

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<p>E gave a definition about the term soap,is it the correct answer?</p>

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<p>On zackzm’s WWII: exactly!</p>

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<p>another wr ques was number 7,it ansswer choices were attempts for and attempts to,was it A or E? can any 1 remember>?</p>

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<p>@ glacial mind giving abit more of the question?</p>

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<p>it is the attempt to do something. btw this was also a question in the last writing section.</p>

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<p>@andaluza from how things have gone so far, i would say yes. this shld not come as a surprise as collegeboard does recycle tests on the pretext that the production costs of every single test are very high…</p>

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<p>oh andaluza u just reminded me of a stupid mistake i did - the attempt of vs the attempt to… for the last writing section i tink collegeboard prefers a (attempt of doing something) though i in a moment of folly put e. sry i cant rmb qn 7</p>

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<p>oops my last msg should b to glacial…</p>

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<p>@ zackzm: According to the Oxford advanced learners dic, its either attempt to do something or attempt at doing something and I hope that collegeboard does follow the rules of Oxford :D</p>

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<p>sadly no, oxford is british english… collegeboard prefers attempt of doing sthing…(at least it is so from the bb) there was a problematic zone with “one side of a debate” which i confused w subject verb agreement but i guess i m wrong…</p>

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<p>It is also attempt to do according to Merriam Webster, which is AE. You put to do right? So u should be fine :)</p>

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<p>i would hope for the same but i m expecting the worst haha from my experience in taking practice tests from bb…</p>

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<p>the question about the adding sentence in the soup passage,are you sure that the answer is to define "soup? ie: E</p>