<p>These problems are available in skills insight, SAT official website.
Score band: 200-290, group 3
2. Understand basic logical comparisons
Example
One reason that an insect can walk on walls while a human cannot is that the mass of its tiny body is FAR LOWER THAN HUMANS.
Answer Choices
(A) far lower than humans
(B) far lower than that of a human's body
(C) lower by far than humans
(D) far lower than a human
(E) far lower than is a human's body
Why is the correct answer D? Why is B not the correct answer?
Score band: 600-690, group 2
2. Recognize idiomatic use of adjectives/adverbs
Example
Just when the staff thought things were going a SMOOTH at the newspaper, a crisis erupted that b
BROUGHT ABOUT c A CHANGE IN PRIORITIES, including d GREATER ATTENTION to sensational news. e NO ERROR
Answer Choices
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E)
Why A is the correct answer, i.e. smooth is wrong?
Thanks for reading.</p>
<p>It’s A, because “smooth” is supposed to be an adverb describing how things were going at the office. It should be “Just when the staff thought things were going smoothly at the newspaper …”</p>
<p>I would also like to know why B wouldnt work for the first problem</p>
<p>its repetetive. </p>
<p>It mentions humans twice</p>
<p>For the first one, there is obviously a typo. The answer is not B; the answer is D. You are comparing the mass of an ant’s body to the mass of a human’s body.</p>
<p>Doesn’t B compare the ant’s body to the mass of a human’s body?
I thought D compares the ant’s body to just a human</p>
<p>Sorry, I meant, “the answer IS B; it is not D.”</p>
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@crazybandit : I too think the answer is B, it was not a typo by me. You can check from here (copy the whole link together and then paste it, the browser takes it as a single line):
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Got it. Thanks.</p>
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I meant that the typo was by the College Board. It makes mistakes sometimes, too (never on an actual SAT though)</p>
<p>@crazybandit ok, thanks</p>
<p>First one is definitely B.</p>