Rocketcat’s Racecar Strategy wins in UNDER a minute tonight. The statistics today are surprising to us: only 50% correct out of over a hundred thousand responders.
Watch the speeding rocket in his RACECAR (forward now…) He Never misses these.
Rocketcat’s patent RACECAR strategy:
First, go forward. Speed out but keep the wheels on the road on every part of the title, the directions, and the sentence.
Your brain is already practiced with these instructions, right?
Still, you use seconds to snap on the parts of your aptitude to make connections, to eliminate predictable errors, to choose the answer, to mark the answer.
Breathe deeply; and move through the title, the directions, and the sentence like a RACECAR gliding over black pavement at night. Consider the routine part as the white line on the pavement, guiding.
Title: This question is about improvement.
Directions: There is only one underlined portion to improve. If no improvement, choose A. to stay.
Now, you are looking for improvement: You are riding in a finely tuned RACECAR, moving surely.
Read the sentence noticing whether any predictable issues in the underlined portion.
But do NOT read for whether it ‘sounds’ right or ‘looks’ right.
Read to notice any predictable standard error—signaled by extra words, awkward introductory phrases, misused verb tense…
They use light that is 100 million times dimmer than the midday sun, and tropical nocturnal sweat bees leave their nests to forage for food.
A. (this one is the same as the original)
B. By using light that is 100 million times dimmer than midday, (This is ‘of interest’ because the introductory phrase does properly modify –after taking out the underlined ‘and’); but the sentence is in need of ‘sun’)
C. (Oh, here it is: MARK YOUR ANSWER AS C) In light that is 100 million times dimmer than the midday sun, tropical nocturnal sweat bees leave their nests to forage for food.
D. NOW RACECAR backwards (racecar is the same word backwards and forwards—a palindrome).
With the light being (nope—It is difficult to defend ‘with…being’)
E.When the light is 100 times as dim as with the midday sun…awkward comparative (See ‘dimmer than’ not ‘as dim as.’ The racecar is at the finish line. Rocketcat wins again!
You chose the correct answer right away by the forward speed, covering the full routine. Because the process is fast, you need to check all possibilities to be sure that you answered the correct question. The question here is whether you will notice that making a connection about how the bees use the light with the introductory preposition is superior to the two complete thoughts: They use the light. They leave their nests to forage. No, there’s a connection ‘In light…bees leave nests.
Remember: Mark the answer. Go back and eliminate the others. This is for the faster format. Most math questions will not require eliminating all the incorrect answers. There are other ways to check. However, about every fifth or sixth problem can be a ROCKETCAR--We mean RACECAR. Read it left to right or right to left. Rocketcat is my pal, and racecar is a palindrome. When you RACECAR math questions, be sure to answer the right question.
I always use the example in my mind of those questions you do in math when a bag is filled with blue, green, and red marbles. There are several questions one can ask. Notice which one the test designer DID ask.
Let me know if you ARE in the smaller group getting these answers!! So many missed this one! Why oh why did they miss the Rocketcat special style of question? He has not missed ONE—EVER. judiethcarol&rocketcatApril2010c
