2016-05-31 College Prep: GMAT and SAT practice

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - Notes from all my classes
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Homework: from Tuesday’s handout (starts with “News article in a popular business publication”), answer the questions about the first two readings
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SAT verbal practice test - On the SAT (unlike the TOEFL), many of the questions are about making grammatical corrections to sentences to improve writing.

p. 18 - Should these two words be changed (to choice B-D), or is the paragraph already correct?
1 B (a “true noun” is better here than a gerund)
2 B (This is a consequence of the previous sentence, not a contrast to it.)
	(“Previously” would need a sentence in the past perfect, to indicate that it had happened before something else.)

p. 19 - question 4 is about style more than grammar (the SAT has many questions like this--maybe two answers both make sense, but you have to choose the best one)
3 A (“This trend” is the subject, which is singular -> has)
	The answers with “which” mean the main sentence is just:
	“This trend, combined with increasing accessibility of information via the Internet.”
	The correct answer has as the main sentence:
	“This trend has led some to claim that librarianship is in decline as a profession.”)
4 A (It explains “nonprint formats”, which is relevant information to add to this sentence.)
5 D (The meaning of “them” and “their” is not clear in this sentence, which doesn’t include anything about the people who do the circulating.)
6 D (Parallel structure with “compiling” and “updating”)
	_____ and _____
	_____, _____, and _____
- each “_____” should have the same grammatical structure
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https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sat/practice/full-length-practice-tests - SAT practice tests with answers and scoring instructions