A. cry : laugh B. curl : roll C. stream : tributary D. dent : destroy E. bend : angle
I choose B, curl: roll, because a drip a much lesser degree of a gush, and a curl is a much lesser degree of a roll. I could also make an argument for dent: destroy, though - enough drips make something gushing, enough dents make something destroyed. -------------------
2. WALK : LEGS
A. blink : eyes B. chew : mouth C. dress : hem D. cover : book E. grind : nose
B. Blink: eyes, most definitely. Use legs to walk, eyes to blink. I guess chew: mouth would have been okay, too? -----------------
3. TOPAZ : YELLOW
A. diamond : carat B. jeweler : clarity C. sapphire : red D. amethyst : purple E. amber : blue
D. amethyst: purple is the only one that makes any sense to me. -------------------
4. LUMEN : BRIGHTNESS
A. candle : light B. density : darkness C. nickel : metal D. inches : length E. color : hue
This one's actually kind of tough without looking up to see exactly what lumen means on its own. I'm leaning towards D. inches : length, though, in the hope that lumen is a measurement of brightness (i.e., luminosity). -----------------------
5. MACERATION : LIQUID
A. sublimation : gas B. evaporation : humidity C. trail : path D. erosion : weather E. decision : distraction
Crap, I actually did have to look up maceration. Having looked it up, I choose D. erosion : weather. ---------------------------
6. CHRONOLOGICAL : TIME
A. virtual:truth B. abnormal:value C. marginal:knowledge D. ordinal:place E. coincidental:health
D. ordinal: place. Again, it's the only one that makes any sense to me. -----------------------------
7. MASSIVE : BULK
A. ultimate:magnitude B. trival:importance C. anonymous:luster D. interminable:legacy E. gigantic:size
E. gigantic: size, they're both adjective : thing adjective describes. ...and having written that out, so are A. and B. :P
And this is why the SATs are goofy. I never actually took them. Maceration is something I knew about because of wine making, for example. Do they expect people to memorize the dictionary?
Well, yeah. A big part of SAT prep has to do with memorizing root words, tricks to figure out what stuff means. That's why a lot of snootier schools include Latin as part of SAT prep.
LOL no this was not from the test I took yesterday. Yesterday they gave me a grammer/spelling thing, a Typing Speed test!!! and a timed transcription...
These are from a practice test for the MAT but they also give these to people taking the GRE.
I HATE these because often 2 answers could be right.
I think I did fine on the grammer part as it was pretty simple. The spelling I probably did alright on.
However as soon as they said I had 3 minutes to type 2 paragraphs as many times as possible my nerves kicked in and I did awful. My hands began to shake and everything. So I know I didn't do that well. I can type super fast now but not yesterday. Then for the transcription part I was so off that I mess that up to and couldn't spell anything right... *sigh*
I did tell them I normally do better and tha tI was super nervous. We talked a little about just the word "Test" freaks people out.
I'm hoping to get 3 recommendation letters to give them Monday. They said I could scan them and email them. So maybe that will make a difference. If not life goes on.
Really right now I'd be very happy if the sun would come out... *sigh* I'm tired of being cold on top of feeling down.
A. cry : laugh
B. curl : roll
C. stream : tributary
D. dent : destroy
E. bend : angle
I choose B, curl: roll, because a drip a much lesser degree of a gush, and a curl is a much lesser degree of a roll. I could also make an argument for dent: destroy, though - enough drips make something gushing, enough dents make something destroyed.
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2. WALK : LEGS
A. blink : eyes
B. chew : mouth
C. dress : hem
D. cover : book
E. grind : nose
B. Blink: eyes, most definitely. Use legs to walk, eyes to blink. I guess chew: mouth would have been okay, too?
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3. TOPAZ : YELLOW
A. diamond : carat
B. jeweler : clarity
C. sapphire : red
D. amethyst : purple
E. amber : blue
D. amethyst: purple is the only one that makes any sense to me.
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4. LUMEN : BRIGHTNESS
A. candle : light
B. density : darkness
C. nickel : metal
D. inches : length
E. color : hue
This one's actually kind of tough without looking up to see exactly what lumen means on its own. I'm leaning towards D. inches : length, though, in the hope that lumen is a measurement of brightness (i.e., luminosity).
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5. MACERATION : LIQUID
A. sublimation : gas
B. evaporation : humidity
C. trail : path
D. erosion : weather
E. decision : distraction
Crap, I actually did have to look up maceration. Having looked it up, I choose D. erosion : weather.
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6. CHRONOLOGICAL : TIME
A. virtual:truth
B. abnormal:value
C. marginal:knowledge
D. ordinal:place
E. coincidental:health
D. ordinal: place. Again, it's the only one that makes any sense to me.
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7. MASSIVE : BULK
A. ultimate:magnitude
B. trival:importance
C. anonymous:luster
D. interminable:legacy
E. gigantic:size
E. gigantic: size, they're both adjective : thing adjective describes. ...and having written that out, so are A. and B. :P
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Now I'm curious which one it was.
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These are from a practice test for the MAT but they also give these to people taking the GRE.
I HATE these because often 2 answers could be right.
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How do you feel about the stuff yesterday, was it okay?
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I think I did fine on the grammer part as it was pretty simple. The spelling I probably did alright on.
However as soon as they said I had 3 minutes to type 2 paragraphs as many times as possible my nerves kicked in and I did awful. My hands began to shake and everything. So I know I didn't do that well. I can type super fast now but not yesterday. Then for the transcription part I was so off that I mess that up to and couldn't spell anything right... *sigh*
I did tell them I normally do better and tha tI was super nervous. We talked a little about just the word "Test" freaks people out.
eh... What will be will be right?
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Really right now I'd be very happy if the sun would come out... *sigh* I'm tired of being cold on top of feeling down.
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