International SAT December 1st 2012 Discussion for Critical Reading

<p>Derp1996,</p>

<p>Parallel…disparity doesn’t work in the structure of the sentence I mentioned. Disparity…parallel, however, can work.</p>

<p>Antithetical also works in the first blank. What was the second option with antithetical?</p>

<p>Does someone remember the exact sentence?</p>

<p>did anyone take anotherr version of the test? the CR passages were about pluto, a choreographer, a math professor, and trinidad and tobago</p>

<p>Could someone please tell the sentence? And the second option with antithetical?</p>

<p>Plus, why was the answer statistics are misleading? As a whole, the passage did suggest that, but wasn’t the question about the last line of the second paragraph which implied that poetry is becoming popular day by day and what not?</p>

<p>I don’t remember the sentence well but the second choice for antithetical was ‘difference’.</p>

<p>@okdudetwer100 Yeah I had that version…No one has really posted anything about it yet, but I had 3 No Errors for the Writing finding-the-error section. Math was straightforward (except for the 3200 perimeter one that almost caught me). The CR section’s vocab was easy, but there were a couple tricky questions</p>

<p>3200 was right for the perimiter right?</p>

<p>richardparker , the real 20 ques. sec was the one with the cylinder problem the other one was experimental</p>

<p>yep (key–>300-400-500 triangle; 1000 + 1000 + 300 + 400 + 500)</p>

<p>For the last question, the median was unaffected correct? Because the new mode became 600 from 200, but the median still was in the 400 category</p>

<p>junaid123: The author says something like: “from these stats one can conclude… BUT” . Then proceeds to explain how poetry is elitist.</p>

<p>in the math section there was something about a graph and reflected with respect to the y-axis the choices were x-3 , x+3 , 3x-3 , 3x+3 ,… what was the answr ?</p>

<p>another quest. about some vaiables G and H on a number line that had coordinates g , h and they asked about coordinates of point p</p>

<p>there was another one with the formula , 25+n= n^2 !!!</p>

<p>plus , the question of vowels and constant, those were alternative !!!</p>

<p>No it was 25n = n^2</p>

<p>Therefore n = 25</p>

<p>But the author shifted the focus of the discussion at the start of the next paragraph, no? I know, I understood the passage (even though I had to solve the 6 minutes in under 5 minutes), but wasn’t the question specifically referring to the last line of the paragraph in which the author states that poetry is a seemingly ‘famous’ form of art. :/</p>

<p>6 questions*</p>

<p>No the author doesn’t “shift the focus” the stats are a way to describe the paradox (main idea).
Also for questions like that don’t over think. It asks you for the point of the stated sentence? The ULTIMATE purpose is not to say how popular poetry is but to explain the paradox. Hence stats are misleading</p>

<p>Yes, but the only problem I had is that the question was a line reference question and in that line the author had stated/implied that stats show that poetry is a successful form of art in America. I had difficulty in determining whether I should just take the statement on its face value or connect it with the main idea of the passage :/</p>

<p>What about the question that asked what is the purpose of the quotation marks around famous? Irony?</p>

<p>7 wrong, 1 omit would is a 57?</p>

<p>57 would equate to?</p>

<p>One or two questions here and there would’ve meant an easy 720 or so for me :/</p>

<p>junaid: try to analyze why the author is using a certain technique. For example, she (or he) doesn’t HAVE to cite stats, but because she does she must use it to justify not undermine the overall message.
This type of question is tough and tricked me many times. (I didn’t have to say this, haha)
As for the “famous” - cant recall could you recite the question?</p>

<p>It was the second last question of the passage about American poetry. Why does the author use quotation marks around the word famous? Was it ‘to convey a sense of irony’?</p>

<p>I got 3 writing sections…for the last sections of the two 25min writing, I got one passage about working out and one about … i forgot</p>