Use your pacing and checking strategies to gather all the points you know. Today's question is a fast one. It is a classic for the strategy to use.
SAT PACE: Move Fast on RACECAR Q&A: Check Quickly
To pace well for high scores on standardized tests, do the ones you know quickly; but check the answers in an abbreviated way. In summary: Get the points you know. Use the speed, with accuracy, to keep moving.
April 25, 2010, Sentence Completion is an easy one for the Rocketcat RACECAR strategy. This is a classic one for the fast forward, mark the answer strategy.
Today’s answer is so quick, as Rocketcat guessed the exact word before looking at the list, that the ‘backwards’ part of the strategy is enough after eliminating one of the other answers. Use the fast answer and quick check to pace along fast enough to spend time on a different type of question.
REVIEW Rocketcat patent RACECAR strategy:
Quickly read the title: We will be completing sentences.
Read the directions: We will be completing the sentence by filling in the blank with the BEST answer.
Read the sentence, noting the clues and connotations (feeling, emotion, tone). Fill in the blank yourself with a word to express the connotation and tone.
A remarkably _________ plant, (already something is remarkable about an aspect of the plant...)
A remarkably ________ plant, the soybean (what is remarkable?) yields not only dairy like products, but also flour, cooking oil, and sprouts.
Rocketcat, with one blue eye and one green eye, is deaf. He visualizes the soybean plant and the milky products and the oil and sprouts and sees ‘different’ ‘varied’ and ‘versatile.’
He looks down the list of words to find a word that means versatile. There it is: versatile. He does not always guess the word ahead, but this time he did.
Rocketcat advises marking this answer immediately on your answer sheet. Then, go backwards (RACECAR is a palindrome, the same frontwards and backwards). Eliminate one of the other answers to make sure you answered the right question. The main thing to check in questions that go fast is that you answered the right question.
Try a couple of the other answers: Do they mean: different, varied, or versatile? If you do not know what some of the words mean, try the ones you do: A remarkably tedious plant (NO!)
A remarkably incessant plant (NO!)
A remarkably versatile plant (YES).
Now, keep going. Move on.judiethcarolandrocketcatapril2010c.
