<p>i remember there being an OF after the "the greater amount." i kept thinking that instead of THE greater amount of food, it should have been A greater amount of food.</p>
<p>I agree with Rikataka.</p>
<p>zach447...what did u put for the question with the gardners and the fertilizers...njpitcher and I put A (as it is)</p>
<p>what was the answer to the "wet paint dries faster..."</p>
<p>i dont remember what i put...</p>
<p>yes there is a parallelism problem with the kangaroos. Little has to be compared to an amount (a lot was an example if you couldn't figure it out, later on I said any extent would do). Greater cannot be compared to "little".</p>
<p>pitcher, i hope u r right abt A being the answer to gardeners, cuz if its not, then I get three wrong instead of 2 (i have accepted that I am wrong in the greater amount...), and I hear that there is an ABSOLUTELY HUGE DROP from 2 to three wrong...</p>
<p>...how do you guys remember how many e's you get? don't you go with the SAT flow and not fill your mind with unnecessary junk like how many of each letter you got? or maybe i'm just not as insightful as you guys.</p>
<p>No akai I agree with you...I really don't remember.</p>
<p>And albert, I'm virtually positive that what was there was correct. I think that's what I put, and I remember being really confident with what I put.</p>
<p>"zach...what did u put for the gardners question...??"</p>
<p>Honestly, I don't remember. This was in Section 10, right? I remember having a little bit of trouble with it, because all of the sentence possibilities were a little awkward, but I can't remember what I finally decided on. Sorry. :(</p>
<p>oh man...the test version with math as second and third section ahd the 3rdand not second math section as experimental...that was my difference between like 800 and now probalby 600 something in math dammit so close...the other version had the second math as experimental but i dont think that was my test...although im hoping...but im pretty sure i had 2 math's as 2nd and 3rd and that i had the 2 long reading passage later in the test ..ahhh no good</p>
<p>also something I wanted to ask everyone that even my guidance counselor didn't really know the answer to....most of the colleges i looked at said that "sat scores are due by november _____" ....does that mean even if i'm applying early action,i don't have to send my scores until later? because i'd like to take the SATI again in september (although the initial plan was to take SATIIs then before finding out couple of days ago that satIIs dont start till october??) and could i then take those in october and send them in? I'm really upset over that because I wanted to take SATIIs and somehow did not know about them not being administered in september</p>
<p>hey does anyone know which section didn't count in the June 4th test?
was it writing section 3(hope not!) or writing section 5?</p>
<p>hey freak :D...collegefreak, it's section 3. at least that's what it says on the CB website.</p>
<p>Aaron, for this version it was section 5 I think...</p>
<p>really? which test did you get?</p>
<p>NJPitcher,</p>
<p>There is no problem with the current sentence (as it has been quoted to me). "Greater amount" can indeed go with "little." For example, "Of the two sisters, Mary has little talent, but Jane has the greater amount of talent." I think you might be confusing the use of "greater" alone with the use of "greater amount." "Greater" itself cannot pair with "little," but "greater amount" certainly can.</p>
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<li>Essay
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<li>Mathematics</li>
<li>Equating (the one that doesn't count toward your score)</li>
<li>Reading</li>
<li>Writing</li>
<li>Mathematics (includes SPR questions)</li>
<li>Reading (includes two long passages)</li>
<li>Reading</li>
<li>Mathematics</li>
<li>Writing</li>
</ol></li>
</ol>
<p>wasn't this the test? NJPitcher and collegefreak?</p>
<p>godot...what do u usually get on writing tests...and what did u put for the gardners question with the fertilizers...njpitcher and I put A (as it is)...</p>
<p>albert,</p>
<p>I am a professional SAT tutor. I didn't take the June exam, but I scored 800 on the Writing SAT II when I took it in high school. I don't know what the gardeners question is.</p>
<p>Godot, i beg to differ. There is a problem in that sentence. "But" implies that what follows is contrary to what was just stated. Little talent does not imply less talent, just not a lot. Little is not a comparison (or relative) term, it is an absolute. "Greater" is a relative term. Heck, if she has no eggs and I have one egg, while I have the greater amount, I still have "little" eggs (referring to the amount of eggs I have). It's really easy to see that "greater" is not contrary to "little".</p>
<p>NJPitcher,</p>
<p>I think you're overanalyzing it. "Greater amount" (not "greater" alone) IS opposed to "little" in this sentence. It may not be the most satisfactory way of phrasing the sentence (e.g., "but the other required a lot" may have been better), but there is still nothing grammatically wrong with the sentence as is. I believe ETS is testing the misuse of "amount" vs. "number" here. You can't have "little eggs," by the way. You can have "few eggs." "Little" is used to denote amounts, which refer to uncountable quantities (such as water, sand, ambition, intelligence, etc.). "Few" is used to denote <em>numbers</em>, which refer to countable quantities (e.g., eggs, people, books, etc.). Since water is an uncountable thing, both "little" and "greater amount" are used correctly in the sentence. Hence, there is no error (unless someone misquoted the sentence). I don't think it's a comparison issue, but a diction issue.</p>