请问OG12的难度和实际考试的比较

carolynxuzj

今天刚把OG12做完，数学正确率只有69%；verbal部分正确率只有52%~~，而且都是花了2倍时间做的，一共做了4个星期。

请问考过的战友，OG12和实际考试难度相比如何？还有题目的长度。以我现在这个样子，怎样才能步入正常的范围？（有些怀疑自己是否是diot）

wangji51

关于为何BOTH不需要：
如果把句子这么看就清楚很多 -- XXXXXXX, produced a body of work both rooted in the stride-piano tradition (of Willie Smith and Duke Ellington), yet XXXXXX

括号部分是tradition的修饰. 所以可以看出both的出现在这里似乎一点意义也没有，因为只有一个tradition而并没有另外一个平行的词可以让我们使用both。

carolynxuzj

多谢prayer耐心的解释，我反正无论如何要考一次，硬着头皮也得复习下去。

prayer

举个例子给你看看我整理我的错题：这道题我做错了，第一次不知道为什么有both和and的情况下不选含有both的选项，并且还有别的疑问，修饰词的形式和位置。于是我从网上搜索了一些解释。最后保存在我的onenote里，市场回过头来复习下。





Thelonious Monk, who was a jazz pianist and composer, produced a body of work both rooted in the stride-piano tradition of Willie (The Lion) Smith and Duke Ellington, yet in many ways he stood apart from the mainstream jazz repertory.



a) same

b) Thelonious Monk, the jazz pianist and composer, produced a body of work that was rooted both

c) Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk, who produced a body of work rooted

d) Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk produced a body of work that was rooted

e) Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk produced a body of work rooted both



O.A is D.



On the first glance, I went with B as well.



But after i saw the answer, i realized:



Correct Idiom is:

Both X and Y

OR

Both in X and in Y.



X and Y are parallel.



Here,

we need:

Both in the stride-piano tradition of Willie (The Lion) Smith

and

in the stride-piano tradition of Duke Ellington



Or

Both

in the stride-piano tradition of Willie (The Lion) Smith

and

in same of Duke Ellington.



So "Usage of BOTH" is wrong here, since non-underline part is not parallel.

I mean, we don't need anything self-understandable. One can argue that

[in the stride-piano tradition of] Duke Ellington

is self understood. Yeah it is, but when u read with both, it should be something like

Both X and Y ==> Both X and Both Y.



But D seems to have a major flaw, meaning.

Jazz pianist

and composer T.M

Seems like 2 different person produced a body of work.



Still a Good explanation will really help.



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this is a special idiom. if you preface someone's name with a noun describing their occupation (or other word describing what that person does), WITHOUT AN ARTICLE, you DO NOT use a comma.



if there's an article, you DO use a comma.



if it's an adjective, you DO use a comma.



example:

Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk ... --> correct

A jazz pianist and composer, Thelonious Monk ... --> correct

Creative and original, Thelonious Monk ... --> correct





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"rooted in..." is a perfectly good modifier, so that part is fine.



the problem is faulty parallelism:

both

in the stride-piano tradition of Willie (The Lion) Smith

and

Duke Ellington



this is not a problem in the correct answer, since there's no "both" to lock in all of those words. in the correct answer, the parallelism is just "Willie (The Lion) Smith and Duke Ellington".



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prayer

数学部分我没做过，不了解。og12逻辑感觉跟实战差不多，可能偏简单些，语法难度差不多吧，阅读og12的我还没做，不知道。
我是07年考的.
第一遍做og，大家都感觉都不好，不要急哈，慢慢来，熟练了就好，关键要搞明白你为啥做错了那几道题，那些错题的考点你有哪些没有掌握。
如果og的解释让你不满意，你复制一段话，到google里搜索下答案，Manhattangmat和urch这两个论坛的解释足够好，并且都会把一些语法点给指出来。
CD论坛的解释也很好，但是搜索不方便，找不到合适的解答。
加油，别泄气啊。找到自己的短板，攻克他！！！

carolynxuzj

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