January 2010 Critical Reading

<p>v No experimental section answers included v
Sentence Completion - COMPLETE</p>

<p>Debilitate/Disheartening
Progenitor/Exploit
Penchant/Locution
Bolster
Rancor
Unflappable
Established/Mitigate
Prodigy/Anonymity
Austere/Unadorned
Acute
Emotional/Literal
Cajolery/Undertake
Diversity/Unpalatable
Integral/Extinction
Steadfast
Fraudulent
Altruistic
Impromptu
Precedent For</p>

<p>Reading Questions</p>

<p>Father and Virgil passage:
Father’s face was tender
Wistfulness
Father’s reasons are incomplete
Growing Companionship
Cards to cards - Continuous Sequence
Father’s comparison to cowboy - Wild exuberance
Father refusal to pick up soldier - Disloyal
Example of another reason - Inexpensive motel
Father isn’t fair - Right
Thieves analogy - Unaccustomed freedom
Brand new shoe evokes sensory image
Most surprised about his father’s affection</p>

<p>Humor in Workplace Double Passage:
Businesses use novelty
Two authors agree that humor is not acceptable in all situations
Passage 1 delineates the consequences
Passage 2 views humor in workplace w/ skepticism</p>

<p>Writing fiction double passage:
Writer’s motto comes off as arrogant
Writing a novel Passage 1 was didactic
Assume means take for granted
Must anticipate a reader’s response
Passage 1 is like 19th century writers
“Bench” is unnecessary concession for the readers
Negative effects of commercial consideration
True writers = genuine writers</p>

<p>Tunisian Tourist Passage:
Traveling by river vs land is different because river is unambiguous
The question from the old man was to emphasize one of the author’s points
Tunisian passage details author’s feelings of being a foreigner
Tunisians walk more modestly
Strange was about appearances
Repetition emphasized the uncertainty of the outcome</p>

<p>Scientist Passage:
Author says how scientists choose to specialize in a field of study is “no matter”
Trick means feat
Thought process distinctive to researchers
To expand on preceding generalizations
The discovery was a solution to the puzzle
Incessant</p>

<p>Alright if the above is correct I either have -1 or -0, depending on what I put for the
The discovery was a solution to the puzzle question. I don’t remember that one. So I’ll just put myself at -1.</p>

<p>Hopefully we didn’t totally mess up and I get like a 700 >.<</p>

<p>you’re useful^</p>

<p>^ Awesome. Thanks SO much for taking the time to compile that list Jersey! Thanks to everyone else who helped contribute too. :D</p>

<p>does anyone remember a question like</p>

<p>yooo this book is the bomb but readers still need to work hard to reap its many rewards (or some woog boog)</p>

<p>i put artlessness and whatever the accompanying word was </p>

<p>perspicuity and probity just didnt make sense :(</p>

<p>and Mr cho was uncharacteristically what during the interview?</p>

<p>i elimintaed inscrutable</p>

<p>i think i put
normally voluble but now cryptic
which was B</p>

<p>i thought long and hard about that choice and choice C
ebullient and effusive</p>

<p>i guess effusive could mean like spread out, meaning ur enthusiasm isnt concentrated but that would be a bit of a stretch</p>

<p>where is Silverturtle!?!?</p>

<p>P.S. i dont see how the person in passage 1 about writing novels with readers in mind was didactic
i forgot what i put but i definitely didnt put didactic</p>

<p>gasp, -1 on CR?!?!
or -3 if silverturtle comes to disprove the above 2 SC concerns?</p>

<p>ugh, I messed up on the scientific research passage</p>

<p>Looks like -5 raw (4 wrong) for me. Hopefully one of the contested ones will swing my way :p</p>

<p>@ antonioray: Looks like you got an experimental CR section. Thus, it won’t count. :)</p>

<p>antonio i think that was experimental because i dont remmeber those questions</p>

<p>silverturtle, are you sure the physics/newtonian/shakespeare section is experimental?
i got that section PLUS 4 math sections so I’m sure that cr section is the real deal.</p>

<p>Fledgling - Haha. I tend to over-exaggerate as a means of entertaining myself, but thanks for the kind words. Unfortunately, I’m a senior, but, thankfully, my scores will be superscored.</p>

<p>What can I hope for with a -7? Did I break into the 700’s or no?</p>

<p>wooo if that was an experimental (that was the one where i struggled the most with SC (but i still gave pretty fair answers)</p>

<p>then I would be staring at a 800</p>

<p>wait you guys dont remember any of the ones i put?</p>

<p>people are saying that newtonian/reality/shakespeare is experimental but i didnt have those</p>

<p>what about the writing novel passage 1 didactic one?</p>

<p>Hey thanks for the consolidated list, but i have few questions:</p>

<hr>

<p>Does anyone remember the full sentence for the deer one? I remember putting the
“____/inaccessible” choice as the answer. I probably misread the question then…but i just wanted to make sure.</p>

<hr>

<p>Likewise, does anyone remember the full question to the Disloyal one?</p>

<p>I thought the question was worded something like “how did the decision come off as to ____?”, and since idk if a decision can be disloyal, but a decision can definitely by irrational.</p>

<p>And for the Greek statues one, I put plain/ornate as well.
I think the sentence had the words “…, and yet…”, which totally changes the mood of the question. So for the sentence to read</p>

<hr>

<p>“Many agree on the idea that Greek white statues often seem plain, and yet the newly found colored ones do not seem to be as ornate.”</p>

<hr>

<p>I have confirmed with many of my friends that the words “AND YET” were indeed in the question.</p>

<p>I didn’t have any CR section w/ Newton in it, so that’s probably experimental.</p>

<p>And does anyone remember the actual question for “thought process distinctive to researchers?”</p>

<p>Does anyone remember anything about cosmology, astronomy and how the planets move? I remember choosing an answer somewhere along the lines of “astronomers were baffled because they were unable to predict the motions of the planets accurately.”</p>

<p>that’s a very impressive list for less than 10 hours after the test. I would not be surprised to find at least two answers on the list are incorrect, however.
also, “The discovery was a solution to the puzzle”- I do not remember its being a solution to the puzzle as an answer choice? I only remember a clue to the jigsaw and something about emphasizing the randomness of discoveries</p>

<p>@antonioray- The answer was didactic for passage 1 because towards the end, the author started going off on all these ways of how to engage the reader. “Didactic” means “intending to teach”</p>

<p>I’m guessing it’ll be a pretty average curve
-0 800
-1 800
-2 800
-3 790
-4 770
-5 750</p>

<p>cjester:</p>

<p>i think i put that it was but one clue to the solution</p>

<p>i guess you could interpret it as the randomness but thats not what the the passage was about; the professor (carol w/es)</p>

<p>was like, yooo we found this but we still dont know anything</p>

<p>Eternal heart: do you remember the other choices?</p>

<p>i remember that one question was like, the author of passage one had a feeling of sympathy towards the “poor readers”</p>

<p>or are we not talking about the same question</p>

<p>

Your sentence, translated into plain English is:
Most people agree that Greek statues were plain, and yet the new statues were not as decorative. </p>

<p>^ Not logical.</p>

<p>

Which questions would you like to dispute? 46 pages of arguments is a testimony to the accuracy of the consolidated list.</p>

<p>v No experimental section answers included v
Sentence Completion - COMPLETE</p>

<p>Debilitate/Disheartening
Progenitor/Exploit
Penchant/Locution
Bolster
Rancor
Unflappable
Established/Mitigate
Prodigy/Anonymity
Austere/Unadorned
Acute
Emotional/Literal
Cajolery/Undertake
Diversity/Unpalatable
Integral/Extinction
Steadfast
Fraudulent
Altruistic
Impromptu
Precedent For</p>

<p>Reading Questions</p>

<p>Father and Virgil passage:
Father’s face was tender
Wistfulness
Father’s reasons are incomplete
Growing Companionship
Cards to cards - Continuous Sequence
Father’s comparison to cowboy - Wild exuberance
Father refusal to pick up soldier - Disloyal
Example of another reason - Inexpensive motel
Father isn’t fair - Right
Thieves analogy - Unaccustomed freedom
Brand new shoe evokes sensory image
Most surprised about his father’s affection</p>

<p>Humor in Workplace Double Passage:
Businesses use novelty
Two authors agree that humor is not acceptable in all situations
Passage 1 delineates the consequences
Passage 2 views humor in workplace w/ skepticism</p>

<p>Writing fiction double passage:
Writer’s motto comes off as arrogant
Writing a novel Passage 1 was didactic
Assume means take for granted
Must anticipate a reader’s response
Passage 1 is like 19th century writers
“Bench” is unnecessary concession for the readers
Negative effects of commercial consideration
True writers = genuine writers</p>

<p>Tunisian Tourist Passage:
Traveling by river vs land is different because river is unambiguous
The question from the old man was to emphasize one of the author’s points
Tunisian passage details author’s feelings of being a foreigner
Tunisians walk more modestly
Strange was about appearances
Repetition emphasized the uncertainty of the outcome</p>

<p>Scientist Passage:
Author says how scientists choose to specialize in a field of study is “no matter”
Trick means feat
Thought process distinctive to researchers
To expand on preceding generalizations
The discovery was a solution to the puzzle
Incessant</p>