Use Rocketcat’s RACECAR strategy on SAT Question April 8!
By judiethcarol&rocketcatApril2010c.
Rocketcat’s RACECAR strategy is the one for today’s SAT question for the day:
1. Read the title and directions (even though you KNOW what to do). The title reminds you that you are “IMPROVING” sentences.
2. Read the sentence watching for a way the underlined word could be improved.
3. Find the answer and mark it.
4. RACECAR the other eliminations. (RACECAR is the same frontwards and backwards. Race out the cars with defects.
Today’s sentence:
One time a candidate for the Democratic nomination for United States president in 1972, Shirley Chisholm won 152 delegates before withdrawing from the race.
Rocketcat note: This sentence clearly says that Shirley Chisholm was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for United States president in 1972, but it is not as clear that she won 152 delegates before withdrawing from that particular race.
The hint from SAT College Board says: Try turning the sentence around to notice the lack of clarity. Here is Rocketcat’s strategy for noticing something that could be read a different way: Pretend this sentence was pulled from a long paragraph about Shirley Chisholm. If the sentence followed another sentence, could it mean something different?
If so, find a word that would make it completely clear standing alone: improving the sentence.
As a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the United States president in 1972, Shirley Chisholm won 152 delegates before withdrawing from the race.
Eliminate each of the other answers quickly, as you try them. They do not connect the word ‘race’ with the Democratic nomination …in 1972. Only ‘as’ makes this connection clear.
Rocketcat’s RACECAR strategy (backwards and forwards on the short passage, short answer Q&A, the palindrome effect) wins again!judiethcarol&rocketcatapril2010c.
One time a candidate for the Democratic nomination for United States president in 1972, Shirley Chisholm won 152 delegates before withdrawing from the race.judiethcarol&rocketcat2010-04-08c
