December 2015 international

@bsdsj22 that’s the question before the last question about “describe an experiment” in the time passage.
It asks the example about eggs and coffee imply what?

@thewindisblowing

I know I was confident about that passage… I just can’t remember the questions & the answers themselves. Very frustrating… I guess I just have to wait 14 days.

some updates for the CR section
SCs: vestiges, coeterie, artisan, useful-avoiding, prescience, versatility, ambition-approachable, effort, span

Critical reading part 1
Passage: Short: Pair: Photograph: innocent = less contrived, represent some reality, express some feelings in the picture; photos can be distort => concession
Long: Danny and Ria: playful; excuse; presumptious; reality versus fantasy; Ria was worry; building relationship; forced civilized; reluctant realistic; will not appreciate the gift; will not approve her home; complicated men are usually: dissect social dynamic ; state some unexpected development; pivotal transition

Part 2:
Short passage:
-Shoes: analogy: introduced species
-Chimpanzee: example for misconception
-Long pair-passage: Historian
Only outstanding historians; thorough and impartial; conclude an explanation for himself; a study and its practitioners; relationship between two passages: passage one: first-hand experience; passage 2: sorry, i don’t remember
Time passage: inconsistency between theory and reality; prominent figure; difference between perception and science; emphasize the previous point; undirect of time; describe an experiment; pointed -> pertinent; can go reverse of time; fundamental => basic

Part 3:
China passage: necessity and ambition; uninterupt contact with the chair; desparate and desirable; publishers are numerous and available; provide context; analogy: people is needing food; deliver= drop off; reaction with reject: he can resumbit easily; a welcome change from ending of revolution
Guys, please post if anyone remember anything else from the test! (Especially the sentence completion section, since we already have a lot of passage-based questions here). Thank you!

@bsdsj22 that’s not a difficult one, so I think you got it right.
me too, i’m extremely nervous right now. It’s the last chance for me to take the SAT. Pray for both of us get the score we want

Well I agree with you.

@thewindisblowing Did the answer to the question about what the example of eggs and coffee imply say that they cannot go reverse of time?And do you also remember the question about “emphasize the previous point” and
“describe an experiment”? I just don’t remember the questions at all, thanks!

@bsdsj22 Found the text online :smiley:
https://courses.cit.cornell.edu/north/Phil_QM/Greene_Chance_Arrow.pdf
Can anyone please remind me the questions?

@bsdsj22 i feel your pain

@thewindisblowing

are u sure of the answer ‘uninterupt contact with the chair’, i said ‘affectionate proximity to’, can u justify ur answer?

@bkmaester

It was uninterrupted contact.

@gluckonsat

I remember the passage clearly. I do not remember the questions. gg

@gluckonsat

Reading the part of the passage where the question referred to, “cannot go reverse in time” seems logically correct.

@bsdsj22 I’m really sorry, but what part of the passage did it refer to?

“Eggs fall, cracking and splattering, but we never see splattered eggs and eggshells gather together and coalesce into uncracked eggs.”

@glucksonsat

Here is the China passage:

https://books.google.co.kr/books?id=PBjH1tOo-6gC&pg=PA80&lpg=PA80&dq=babies+wailing+for+milk++cultural+revolution&source=bl&ots=OQse1Etu9D&sig=Dphm-pzgOfHGtRLr-JeBa3Gz2C4&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=babies%20wailing%20for%20milk%20%20cultural%20revolution&f=false

Pages 80-82

woah guys, you’re such genius to find those passage.
@bsdsj22 @gluckonsat According to my memory, the “can go reverse of times” is the question about what “coffee and eggs” in those lines: “the situation is more puzzling” to “can rush back into the bottles” suggest?
And the question about why the author think: “Law of Splattered Eggs” is silly => because it provides no explanation? Is that right?

@bsdsj22 @thewindisblowing Ohhh I remember the question now! Thanks

@thewindisblowing I forgot the exact answers but I think it was something similar.
Do you remember the questions for “emphasizes the previous point” and “describe an experiment”?

Weren’t vestiges and prescience from the experimental section ?

@cfcsjmishra

No

@gluckonsat “describe an experiment” is the question about what technique the author did not use in the passage
and “emphasize the previous point” is the purpose of the last sentence in the passage which has repetive “seem” in the time passage
@cfcsjmishra I got a math experiment section but still had that “vestige” and “prescience” section

Wait !

In my paper there were 2 reading sections with 8 vocab questions.

First One- Ria And Danny
Second One- Newton

The newton one had those words: prescience and vestiges.

And was the option (e) in the prescience question Effrontery ?