Writing Section - 2009 March SATs

<p>The essay was Does honesty get in the way of success?</p>

<p>10 minute MC section
I have two nagging questions in particular:
Olga sat in ...
A) hours, her fingers tapping restlessly
B-D were wrong
E) hours with her tapping her fingers restlessly</p>

<p>Establishing a written word for the Cherokee language...
A) system where each spoken word
B) system of which each spoken word
C) spoken in which each spoken word
D and E were wrong</p>

<p>I put A and C for those.</p>

<p>ditto jansat09! </p>

<p>what did you guys get for the identifying sent errors for the desert? i don’t know if i chose d) the most strangely beautiful or e) no error.</p>

<p>I put E. No Error for that, but I wasn’t sure. I think I got No Error 4 times on the first writing section? :&lt;/p>

<p>the one about the desert and the lanscape.
is it ‘TO some,’ that was wrong? I had the nagging feeling it was supposed to be ‘for some’</p>

<p>Also, the one about the folktale about the world flooding and the people surviving on the turtle’s back. did you leave it with the semicolon? I remember changing it to a comma and ‘and’…</p>

<p>E) No error</p>

<p>ahh i’m praying i put e) for the desert one! though i think i put d) … oh what about the one with the girl & finishing the airplane lessons in 7 months not 10? was that no error?</p>

<p>I also put No error.</p>

<p>(Btw these are just what I put, not necessary the correct choice)</p>

<p>For the desert one I remember a “of the world” after most strangely beautiful which is why it was legit.</p>

<p>Olga sat in the waiting room …
A) hours, her fingers tapping restlessly
B-D were wrong
E) hours with her tapping her fingers restlessly</p>

<p>Cant be A.No way .I think it should be B-D because neither A nor E works here.</p>

<p>jansat09 i put the same 3 answerss</p>

<p>Why can’t it be A?</p>

<p>^ i definitely remember crossing out at least 2 because you would have 2 indep clauses and you need a semicolon to separate indep clauses.</p>

<p>Yeah i Put A and C</p>

<p>JanSAT, it is definitely A - nothing is wrong in the Olga question.</p>

<p>i put A and C</p>

<p>For the Olga one I put like B or something. It was tricky.</p>

<p>What was the one that was like, the students ran to the professor to ask questions for which there was no time in class?</p>

<p>For the waiting room one, I put A and a friend put E. LOL
And ^it was DEFINITELY not B-D, because they were flagrantly wrong.</p>

<p>I personally thought something was wrong with the preposition “with” in context of that sentence. And with the 20% of the time no error rule, that “A” brought me up to the expected amount. Hmmmmmm…</p>

<p>I also put C for the second one.</p>

<p>And for the desert one, I put (E) No Error…again cuz of the 20% thing, and I don’t think there was anything wrong with the sentence. Everything agreed with their other halves, “to some” is definitely kosher, no idiom errors… etc.</p>

<p>I had two big writing sections, meaning one was experimental.
I had a feeling which one was experimental, as some of the questions were worded awkwardly–did anybody else see this?
It had a paragraph about buying cars i think…?</p>

<p>paigeohno for the professor and questions, originally i put that there was an error with the “for which” but then i switched to no error</p>

<p>i put the same answers A and C</p>