PreACT 9 English Examination Study Notes: Conventions of Standard English

Examination Overview and Student Performance Data

Test Identification: PreACT 9 Final Test
Platform: testprepchicago.testpress.in
Subject Battery: English, Mathematics, Reading, Science
Curriculum Sub-domain: PreACT 9 English > Conventions of Standard English
Student Profile: Elsie Jackson (Username: elsiejackson)
Overall Score Metrics:
- Correct Answers: $0$
- Incorrect Answers: $9$
- Unanswered Questions: $0$
- Pending Questions: $0$
- Total Marks Awarded: $0.00$

Cultural Age Calculation Systems: "How Old Am I?"

Comparative Age Conventions:
- American System: Infants do not turn $1$ year old until a full year ( $365$ days) has elapsed following their birth.
- Traditional Korean System: Infants are considered $1$ year old on the exact day they are born.
Korean New Year's Day Age Increment:
- In the traditional Korean age system, every individual gains $1$ year of age simultaneously on New Year's Day, regardless of their actual calendar birth date.
- Specific Example: A baby born in December is considered $1$ year old at birth and becomes $2$ years old on the subsequent New Year's Day, despite having been alive for less than $1$ month.
- Cultural Significance: New Year's Day functions as a collective, nationwide birthday celebration for all individuals at once in Korea.
Cross-Cultural Experience & Perspective:
- Individuals raised in two cultures encounter confusion during developmental milestones (e.g., determining whether a fifth-grade student is $10$ or $11$ years old).
- Age measurement systems reflect fundamental underlying cultural attitudes regarding the aging process and growing older.

Question Analysis for Passage I

Question 1 Breakdown

Question Identification: Question No. $1$
Scoring Weight: $+1.00 / 0.00$
Student Performance: Marks Awarded: $0.00$ ; Time Taken: $1\text{m } 31\text{s}$
Global Performance Benchmark: $67.87\%$ answered this question correctly.
Target Sentence Context: "Babies in the United States don't turn one until a full year has passed, babies in Korea are already one year old on the day they are born."
Prompt: Which choice makes the sentence most grammatically acceptable?
Answer Options:
- Option A: No Change
- Option B: While babies
- Option C: The fact is that babies
- Option D: On the one hand, babies

Question 10 Breakdown

Question Identification: Question No. $10$
Scoring Weight: $+1.00 / -0.00$
Student Performance: Marks Awarded: $0.00$ ; Time Taken: $0\text{m } 55\text{s}$
Global Performance Benchmark: $59.81\%$ answered this question correctly.
Prompt: Which choice makes the sentence most grammatically acceptable?
Answer Options:
- Option A: No Change
- Option B: clear-cut so traditions
- Option C: clear-cut and traditions
- Option D: clear-cut, traditions

Spiritualism and Photographic Deception: "The Case of the Trick Photographs"

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & Sherlock Holmes:
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes, one of literature's most renowned characters.
- Sherlock Holmes is portrayed as a logical detective who solves complex mysteries through rigorous observation and systematic reason.
Doyle's Belief in the Supernatural:
- In contrast to his rational character, Doyle reached real-life conclusions that astonished his admirers.
- His deep fascination with spiritualism and the supernatural led him to maintain that modern science had not yet explained all phenomena.
- This cognitive openness caused him to firmly accept the literal existence of fairies.
The Cottingley Fairies Hoax ( $1920$ ):
- In $1920$ , Doyle was deceived by two young schoolgirl cousins: Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths.
- The Event: Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths returned from a walk in the English countryside claiming to have encountered and interacted with real fairies.
- Photographic Evidence: The girls produced photographs depicting magical beings, showing some fairies dancing in a ring in the grass and others fluttering directly in front of the girls' faces.
- Public and Critical Reaction: The public experienced widespread excitement over this apparent proof of fairies, with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle becoming the most passionate believer.
Historical Context of Early Photography:
- During this era, cameras were a relatively novel technology.
- Techniques for manipulating, editing, or faking photographic images were not widely understood by the general public.
- The prevailing societal belief was that if an object or entity appeared in a photograph, it constituted definitive proof of physical reality.

Question Analysis for Passage III

Question 20 Breakdown

Question Identification: Question No. $20$
Scoring Weight: $+1.00 / -0.00$
Student Performance: Marks Awarded: $0.00$ ; Time Taken: $0\text{m } 16\text{s}$
Global Performance Benchmark: $63.45\%$ answered this question correctly.
Prompt: Which choice makes the sentence most grammatically acceptable?
Answer Options:
- Option A: No Change
- Option B: for
- Option C: in
- Option D: Delete the highlighted portion.

Question 24 Breakdown

Question Identification: Question No. $24$
Scoring Weight: $+1.00 / -0.00$
Student Performance: Marks Awarded: $0.00$ ; Time Taken: $0\text{m } 21\text{s}$
Global Performance Benchmark: $60.89\%$ answered this question correctly.
Prompt: Which choice makes the sentence most grammatically acceptable?
Answer Options:
- Option A: No Change
- Option B: her cousin and herself
- Option C: she and her cousin
- Option D: her cousin and her

Question 25 Breakdown

Question Identification: Question No. $25$
Scoring Weight: $+1.00 / -0.00$
Student Performance: Marks Awarded: $0.00$ ; Time Taken: $0\text{m } 25\text{s}$
Global Performance Benchmark: $20.46\%$ answered this question correctly.
Prompt: Which choice makes the sentence most grammatically acceptable?
Answer Options:
- Option A: No Change
- Option B: were actually
- Option C: were actually being
- Option D: have actually been