<p>Can we list some of the common answer choices and sort of explain what they mean? Sometimes I get stuck on these questions because I don't completely get what the answer choices mean. I'd understand the words separately but can't put them together.</p>
<p>i'll start.</p>
<p>qualified approval
grudging admiration
studied indifference
partial hostility</p>
<p>i dont know how to explain them beyond what’s written… it’s as simple as it can be…?</p>
<p>A few tips:
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<p>apparently he’s done that already. not much we can do beyond that</p>
<p>Oh, right. Didn’t see that. Yeah… don’t know how we can really explain it. It’s really kind of obvious.</p>
<p>well in aSineWave’s defense, I don’t really know the definitions of those phrases either, like grudging admiration seems oxymoronic</p>
<p>“grudging admiration” is almost like envy…? idk. It’s hard to explain without using the definition. If you already know the definition to both of those words, should be relatively simple to put them together…</p>
<p>i could probably figure it out if I knew what the passage was about but otherwise no</p>
<p>i think envy fits best. you would rather not admire them but it’s hard not to</p>
<p>I have one that I couldn’t figure out: indifference and tolerance. I think this is in the CB book…practice test 3 somewhere. How do you distinguish them from the author’s tone?</p>
<p>it’s usually not indifference because if it was, they probably wouldn’t be writing a book/article about it. but for tone questions, you really need to know the passage well t be able to answer them</p>
<p>people have peculiar techniques of not reading the passage, or reading sentence of parag 1 and sentence 3 of parag 2… and such… but unless they get lucky or really understand the passage, they won’t be able to get this tone question right. Usually this question is answered with the clue words in the passages or how a character acts in the passage.</p>
<p>the passage might say “Joe took the pencil and placed it on the desk vehemently” the word “vehemently” shows that he’s raging or something. </p>
<p>If you do not read the whole passage, you might miss out on this clue word and not be able to answer the question correctly… </p>
<p>atleast this is what i think.</p>
<p>(this is from experience too. i was trying the grammatix way of not reading the passage since the citation questions already bring you back to the “important” parts of the passage, i got the tone questions wrong)</p>
<p>just because you got the question wrong doesn’t mean that the methods are faulty… different things work better for different people. also, tone questions do not require in depth reading.</p>
<p>ohh haha I guess that makes sense</p>
<p>Thanks to all who responded (yes, even those who criticized)</p>
<p>To clear things up, I understand the words when you break the pair up, but the pairing makes it somewhat odd.</p>
<p>Take ‘studied indifference’</p>
<p>I don’t quite get it. How do you show a lack of concern/interest while “marked by or suggestive of conscious effort” (dictionary.com definition for studied)</p>
<p>I just find it a bit hard to ‘get’ the answer choices… if you know what I mean. This may come off as sort of stupid, but I hope others have had similar troubles with these answer choices so that this thread may be useful.</p>
<p>Don’t bother putting it together, then. Just look for the “studied” portion, and then the “indifference” portion. If they both exist, then it’s the right answer.</p>
<p>also, in that case, ‘studied’ is just an adjective. if you know what indifference means and it fits the passage best, it’s probably the best answer</p>