<p>for me the african one was hard, the rest weren't bad at all.</p>
<p>There was a Fill in the blank question with silk.</p>
<p>Was the answer "affordable and delicate," or "economical and synthetic"?</p>
<p>^
I thought it was economical...confounding. or something...or maybe I just remembered wrong.</p>
<p>nah confounding was something else. it was economical/synthetic (or some other synonym)</p>
<p>The answer was economical/synthetic, because the sentence pointed out that silk is expensive and natural, but Rayon is ____ and ____ (antonyms for the adjectives used for silk...)</p>
<p>I know we all didn't get the same test. I wrote the first test posted under the "After the Test" section. What was the first section? Was it the one with the chess and the afvertising in nature? Those were pretty screwy.</p>
<p>Rayon is produced from naturally occurring polymers and therefore it is not a synthetic fiber, but a manufactured regenerated cellulosic fiber...The durability and appearance retention of regular rayon are low, especially when wet; also rayon has the lowest elastic recovery of any fiber. (Copied from wikipedia).</p>
<p>Now, I remember the passage saying Rayon was a natural fiber, like silk but less expensive. Although rayon is/was sold as an alternative to silk it is not "synthetic" in anyway. Rayon is naturally occuring, that is why I never chose economical...synthetic(The passage said it). Now both silk and rayon are both natural occuring fibers, so I don't know why you would choose the answer with synthetic in it. Unless of course if it was referring to the fact that rayon is/was sold as silk, but I doubt anybody knew that.</p>
<p>SO, after looking at the two options again, economical...synthetic vs affordable...delicate I still think that affordable...delicate is correct. But if anyone else would like to explain why they chose economical...synthetic, I would like to know.</p>
<p>what about the one asking about the antithesis of the olympic athlete</p>
<p>What were the possible answers? I do not remember that one.</p>
<p>What was the SC with the answer as confound / invoke etc...I don't remember invoke as being in the same question as confound.</p>
<p>Solsek, I completely agree with you, not many people know that rayon is not synthesized. But ETS is not trying to test your knowledge of Rayon, it is testing your knowledge of vocabulary. The only reason i chose economical...synthetic was because the sentence goes through the trouble of saying that silk is naturally occuring AND in the sentence it says WHEREAS, indicating that the two adjectives describing Rayon will make it unlike Silk. </p>
<p>expensive - Economical
Natural - Synthetic</p>
<p>Solsek, I also put affordable...delicate! </p>
<p>It sounded right, b/c it made rayon sound more positive, contrasting silk.</p>
<p>Ok, thats what I thought then. But we'll see haha, I don't remember what it said exactly... but I remember changing my answer from economical...synthetic to affordable...delicate because of the context synthetic/delicate was in. I don't remember exactly but for some reason I think that it talked about rayon as a fiber, not as an alternative to silk in the last part of the sentence. Thats why I thought synthetic would not make sense.</p>
<p>Solsek, I completely agree with you, not many people know that rayon is not synthesized. But ETS is not trying to test your knowledge of Rayon, it is testing your knowledge of vocabulary. The only reason i chose economical...synthetic was because the sentence goes through the trouble of saying that silk is naturally occuring AND in the sentence it says WHEREAS, indicating that the two adjectives describing Rayon will make it unlike Silk. </p>
<p>expensive - Economical
Natural - Synthetic</p>
<p>It does seem that synthetic might work, b/c it is an antonym to natural, but then it didn't fit exactly in the context, though delicate fit.</p>
<p>Ahhh, whatever...I really hope that it was "experiemental" haha...are SC's even experiemental? Or just the passages? At any rate i've only missed 4-5 questions so far after reading all these CR threads.</p>
<p>!!!! WHY DID I HAVE TO KNOW WHY RAYON WAS !!!! Made me over analyize the answers.</p>
<p>the experimental sections are posted</p>
<p>blah, that doesn't help very much ..</p>
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<li> Essay</li>
<li>Equating (the one that doesn't count toward your score)</li>
<li>Reading (includes 2 long passages)</li>
<li>Math (includes SPR questions)</li>
<li>Reading</li>
<li>Writing</li>
<li>Math</li>
<li>Reading</li>
<li>Math
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<li>Writing</li>
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<p>that was the test I had...I don't remember what was on this section.</p>
<p>I can never remeber the different SC on sections. I think that section 2 had the Chess thing, Advertiseing thing, an SC with a word choice quiescent, it may have had the Rayon one though. I love that I own Latin.</p>
<p>Quiescent - Inactive</p>
<p>Literally means (In Infinitive Form) - To be Still</p>
<p>omg... Which section was the shakespeare one again? the 3rd? so it's not equating section? Crap... I did bad on that one... then.. :/ why is equating number 2..</p>
<p>What passages were FITBs were in the equating section?</p>