<p>“the two triangle one which were similar was 10 + root 5 (i dont knw the root symbol on the comp)”</p>
<p>I am pretty sure the perimeter was 10 + 2 root 5 because the length of the two sides was 3 root 5</p>
<p>I loved the Montaigne reading so I remember it pretty clearly.</p>
<ul>
<li>The purpose of the passage was his trying to justify why he was writing about himself</li>
<li>He talked about public buildings because to indicate that public acclaim wasn’t what he was looking for</li>
<li>The only group he wasn’t writing for was an educated elite</li>
<li>He holds onto the objects because he believes they link him to the past</li>
<li>His attitude/response to his descendants is witty</li>
<li>“The most pleasurable…are deep inside…etc” means that no external pleasure can be greater than that derived from isolation.</li>
</ul>
<p>1491…</p>
<p>Did anyone get different answers for the f(-3) question?
And sorry, don’t want to be pedantic, but is it 1420 or 1421?</p>
<p>theskylitup:
do you mean “aversion to public something something”?
and did he really mention anything about isolation? i thought it was more of self reflection</p>
<p>I think the 142… one ended in an odd number.</p>
<p>Also, for the f(-3) on I got 2. You had to check for what values of x, y was the same.</p>
<p>I also got 10 + 2root5.</p>
<p>I put the aversion to public thing. I think I put self-reflection, but I’m not sure.</p>
<p>Okay good. Got 2 as well. I thought you just look at the graph…and see what’s got the same y-coordinate.
Yeah! Self-reflection! But I know quite a few people who put isolation…I just remember reading that option and thinking it was pretty extreme for a correct answer.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>This was the last question right? I was tossing up between the answer I gave, and the self reflection one which was (something…one gains the greatest self improvement and blah from self reflection)? </p>
<p>In the passage there was reference to how he deliberately turned away from and was annoyed by visitors who interrupted him. </p>
<p>But in any case, people say this is the experiemental section right?</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>Yeah! I did as well. (freaked me out abit)</p>
<p>Another CR passage? - the African/American author</p>
<ul>
<li>the wordchoice conveyed his sense of desperation (or need? something to that effect)</li>
<li>an ananlogy is a person with a vitamin deficiency unconsciously craving foods rich in that vitamin. </li>
<li>Westerns met his emotional needs in a way he didn’t understand</li>
<li>he refers to the canon as it leaves no room for books other than approved by critics. </li>
<li>Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple is mentioned as an example of a distinctive fictional character in the genre.</li>
</ul>
<p>Is that section really the experimental section? One of my friends didn’t get that rock/caravan section so I thought that was the experimental section. But then it wouldn’t make sense for two critical readings to be in a row and have neither of them be an experimental section wouldn’t it?</p>
<p>really don’t know lemonade. </p>
<p>Here’s the list of the different CRs - perhaps this will help figure which was experimental?</p>
<ul>
<li>2 passages about the commercialisation of universities</li>
<li>Passage that was an extract from the french philosopher Montaigne</li>
<li>Passage about African American author (extract from his essay?)</li>
<li>Passage about a British family and their caravan</li>
</ul>
<p>theskylitup: your memory is AMAZING. kudos!</p>
<p>^ lol, :)</p>
<p>(Thanks Lemon!)</p>
<p>Not really, more just for things that I’ve read (books/passages etc) - Particularly because I really connected with alot of the CR passages. </p>
<p>For the comparative passage about the commercialisation of universities</p>
<ul>
<li>“a ___ is underway” - hmm, I was also tossing up between urgent and reflective, I think I chose urgent in the end. </li>
<li>the professor was perturbed.</li>
<li>one way of addressing the problem in passage one is to limit corporation’s control over research publication.</li>
<li>passage 1 talks about the reaction/feelings of the students while passage 2 doesn’t</li>
<li>both passage 1 and 2 talk use extensive quotation</li>
</ul>
<p>there was another smaller passage (tucked together with one of the larger passages) about Houston wasn’t there? From what I remember…</p>
<ul>
<li>the author is trying to convey the decline of the space program through description of the Housten complex.</li>
</ul>
<p>I think there was also question about what passage 2 talked about but passage 1 didn’t. don’t remember the choices or the answer though.</p>
<p>Oh, and for the caravan one, there was also a question about what her question served as in the passage. (A questioning of the accuracy of her memories?)</p>
<p>Lemon! Ah you rang a bell :)</p>
<ul>
<li>Passage 2 looked at the historical/cultural background to the commercialisation of universities which passage 1 didnt.</li>
</ul>
<p>and yes, I answered questioning the accuracy of her memories as well.</p>
<p>I was reading a few pages back, and about whether her husband was philosophical or scientific, I put philosophical - genetics was his starting off point, but he made more general points about how everyone was everyone else’s past - quite philosophical. Plus the tone of the passage was more literary than scientific. </p>
<p>There was another question there where I answered that she felt that everyone was interconnected as part of a greater whole.</p>
<p>And what did everyone write about for the Essay? (I know it doesn’t count too much). </p>
<p>I covered both pages, my intro + thesis was that it is important to question established truths, those who have rebelled against popular consensus have contributed the most to human knowledge and progress. 3 paragraphs about Plato and his contribution to ethics/philosophy/politics, then Copernicus and science, and the parliamentary reforms of the British Enlightenment (ie. questioning the morality of the slave trade and that women and children had no rights).</p>
<p>Wow, theskylitup! It really does sound like you 2400ed the test!</p>
<p>^ ah no! Quite possibly no. My grammar is terrible (where I am, we teach english with a focus on critical theory - postmodernism, etc and completely neglect grammar). </p>
<p>Anyway, I hope that the stuff I remembered from the CR section was helpful to others, I barely remember anything from Writing or Math so I’m abit useless there.</p>
<p>sky, your responses have been immensely helpful.</p>
<p>I felt it was scientific merely because of Occam’s Razor. It is a known fact that the answers will be very APPARENT in the text, and it specifically mentions genetics, so we need not make assumptions about philosophical, though it was sort of a toss up.</p>
<p>For the Essay I really rushed the second page, I quoted Pride and Prejudice and Copernicus, gave two elaborate examples instead of the standard three. My answers concur with the mainstream ones floating in this thread for the questions listed.</p>
<p>Does anyone remember (looking at you theskylitup & your amazing memory) the answers to that blog vs newspaper section? It was a short passage 1, passage 2 type thing.</p>