<p>okay so i decided i want to get my verbal up into the 800 range ... so i decided maybe i should study or something (right now its a 710)</p>
<p>anyways i never new how stupid some of these questions were... while taking the test...i worked quickly.</p>
<p>i mean there are two freaking choices that would perfectly for one question </p>
<p>example:
this is from the first test in the blue book</p>
<p>"It was a large painting and I realized as soon as it arrived at my home that however much I loved it I had no wall and no room to do it [justice]. I put it on the largest wall we had in the biggest room and still felt I was insulting it - the power of the picture was too huge to be contained in our house. And the light was wrong. The painting couldn't glow as it wanted to - it needed a vast, empty room and a great distance in front of it"</p>
<p>Okay now after reading that portion of the passage how does this make any sense:
13) In line 25 the author assumes that "justice" would be:
A) Recognizing unique achivement... (stupid choice)
B) Ensuring that a work of art reaches wide audience (stupid choice)
C) Displaying a work of art to its best advantage
D) Enhancing ones (stupid choice)
E) Providing elegant surroundings for exceptional art.</p>
<p>How the hell is it not E ? i mean yeah i can see both C and E fitting but i mean come on how do they expect you to know which one it is out of those two ... seriously ??? it could be either one </p>
<p>if there is logic to this please explain to me... i am frustrated because now i know how i did so bad on the verbal ... i thought i aced it but then i get a 710 lol</p>
<p>I can however see a pattern: if there are two that fit just pick the vague one ... but i am not satisfied... there should be more logic to it than that!</p>
<p>The author didnt say anything about elegance. "Not doing it justice" is like almost the same as saying "it wasnt being shown to its best advantage."</p>
<p>nah, you dont have to have elegant surroundings to display a piece of art. In fact some Sheila Fell's paintings would look better against a plain background anyways lol.</p>
<p>Yeah I definitely see C as the better choice. It never once mentioned the surroundings had to be elegant, only that they had to do the picture justice.</p>
<p>Yeah some of those CR questions are really ambiguous and drive you crazy. I would have naturally chosen C. I don't know if I can explain why, but I'll try... doing justice has to do with the painting, no so much the surroundings, as ppl have said. Also when you think of doing a painting justice you (I) think of not keeping it cramped up somewhere, but making sure the power of the image is not diminished in anyway by its surroundings. Now that doesn't mean the surroundings have to be elegant... I dunno if that makes sense.</p>
<p>okay i can see what you are saying however </p>
<p>I think i am looking far into the question and into what is implied :
" largest wall we had in the biggest room and still felt I was insulting it"
that led me to think she wanted a bigger room, and i alway associate big rooms with being in wealthy elegent mansions and so for some reason my brain made that connection lol I'm a math person</p>
<p>ELEGENT i guess means ornate decortaed etc... yeah C is the better choice ... i see why now, its because elegent is too precise a descriptor, big doesn't necessarily mean elegent ... </p>