<p>Never had an Egypt passage so it was probably experimental. Also are you sure it was in writing and not reading. Only passage in writing was about Wilbur carrier (I think that’s his name?) and air-conditioning. Anyone remember questions from there?</p>
<p>For the moon one parallelism must be used so the answer was E and also it is “whereas” not however for the other, and the one with “when” the answer is the one that uses “that.” I thought this writing section was rather easy.</p>
<p>Anyone remember the answer to the number 28: Country-western musicians, who weren’t popular during their time (dont remember the exact wording), are now one of most savvy performers.</p>
<p>Is the answer “one of” because it’s supposed to be “some of” or do we treat the musicians as an entity, thus a No Error?</p>
<p>Error for the country musicians was ‘one of’. Should be ‘some of’</p>
<p>It was ‘that of traveling the opposite direction.’ Without the ‘that,’ you would be comparing energy cost and traveling, which would be incorrect.</p>
<p>For the improving passages, was it ‘Ravoili, as much to escape the heat as watch movies’ or ‘Ravoli, which previously did not have air conditioning’?</p>
<p>Does anybody remember a sentence error question with seafood being added to chefs’ menus? I don’t know whether ‘almost certainly’ was the error or no error.</p>
<p>for ravoli one i put previously did not have air conditioning because it was specific whereas the latter was based on the opinions of people. you couldnt surmise that they were all going there just because they wanted to escape the heat. plus it was talking about going from no ac to ac so it would make more sense</p>
<p>@bleach it’s the same thing. my example with the maize and pumpkin is comparing the ingredients used by two different tribes. the question on the test was comparing the energy used when travelling in two different directions</p>
<p>I disagree with underachiever on the ac one because they had already talked about ravioli getting ac so that would be redundant. They also said theaters were unpopular because they were so hot + there were no other ac’s at the the time, so that people went to escape the heat is a legitimate inference.</p>
<p>Although it’s a legitimate inference (hence it making to the final choices as an answer), the statement is too equivocated because you are involving opinions of other people, rather than specific change. The passage the whole time was based upon specific change; the transition from no ac to ac. I see where you are coming from because it can be seen as superfluous, but when glancing at it from a distance it would make sense to reiterate the transition, that the passage expresses, in the sense conveyed by that particular sentence.</p>
<p>i think
- that in traveling in opposite direction. Not, that of traveling. cuz its not parallel to the previous sentence “energy needed in traveling”
- Maize, like Corn and B, should be “distingushed…from” not “distinguished by”</p>
<p>my answers/explanations/guesses?
For the country musicians = “some” bc musicians are plural.
For the moon travel thing = “that of” bc I thought “that of” referred to “the energy expended of” like it was more concise and you could infer what “that” referred to? I’m not sure.
Ravoli’s AC = “to escape heat” bc otherwise it would be redundant and only saying this would make it mean anything to the passage as a whole, etc.
Did anyone up “before sentence 14” or something in that?
Does anyone know what the curve is going to be like for this test/how it compares to other SAT’s?</p>
<p>For those of you who had the sputnik and the ac writings, which one came first? i remember the first section being substantially harder than the second…</p>
<p>The Ravoli movie theater one has to be the answer saying people went there as much for the air as the movies. Because it had just said that summer caused movie attendance to drop because of the heat. They were trying to say that people went to the movies in the summer because there was ac.</p>
<p>Like others said it would be redundant to say which previously had ^no Ac when they already said that. Also like others said the other option was a legitimate inference. Collegeboard doesn’t care if you surmise other peoples opinions as long as it makes sense.</p>
<p>After careful consideration I have reluctantly conceded that “that of” is incorrect due to lack of parallel structure. In comparisons one should maintain as much parallel structure as possible.</p>
<p>I put that too. I figured it’d be more parallel but I wasn’t sure :/</p>
<p>So no one’s absolutely certain about the energy/parallel one? </p>
<p>Is “The energy expended in traveling from the Earth to the Moon is the same as that of traveling in opposite directions” really wrong? It sounds fine to me…
I thought both D and E were grammatically correct, but D was more concise so I chose that. In the directions, they ask for the BEST answer, so there could be multiple right answers, and you pick which one sounds the best. Argh, I know I got at least 2 other grammar questions wrong, I’m really hoping this one’s right.</p>
<p>I think I remember seeing a question really similar to this on one of the online official CB practice tests, I’m going to try to dig it up.</p>
<p>I chose the one that was a bit more wordy on the energy expended question…Because I’m so used to scientific writing and the rule there is “Be as specific as possible even if it sounds repetitive. You don’t want people misinterpreting what you mean.”</p>
<p>complied list?</p>
<p>does anyone possibly remember a question about governor… for example, “Before 1989, governor ----- …”
(can’t remember specifically :/)</p>
<p>@giraffecakes- in your practice example the problem is the parallelism isn’t there. the first part of the sentence’s subject is MEALS. the second has to compare it to other tribe’s meals, which is why you need “that of” or in this case “those of” instead of just the tribes or you would be comparing meals to tribes. Since energy was the subject of both sides of the parallelism in the earth/Moon question, you should be less wordy and use “that of” instead.
saying ‘energy expended in going one direction is greater than energy expended in going in the opposite direction’
is the same as saying ‘energy expended in going one direction is greater than that of the opposite direction’
since the latter is a bit less wordy i think it’s the better choice. just my interpretation of the question but who knows :)</p>