January 2010 Critical Reading

<p>Grrrr, too many debatable questions. I should really stop reading this thread…</p>

<p>It was plain/orante, and austere/unadorned was definitely the answer</p>

<p>What was the experimental reading? Any ideas?</p>

<p>does anyone here remember the phrasing of the greek building question for sentence completion?</p>

<p>For the boy and father passage, I put “unaccustomed freedom,” primarily because it was the only choice that related to their happiness and excitement at all.</p>

<p>Additionally, I put incomplete for the reasons other people listed (goes on to mention etc.).</p>

<p>Is it established that the answer was disloyal and not irrational? The sentence before the line mentioned something about the son noting his father’s lack of reasoning or something of that sort. Anyone remember?</p>

<p>Was the passage with scientific thought experimental?</p>

<p>No, I had an experimental math section and the cr passage w/ scientific thought.</p>

<p>^ Pretty sure scientific thought wasn’t experimental</p>

<p>And yes its disloyal, somewhere in that line he mentions his father being seditious.</p>

<p>I had math experimental: I got:
Father/boy LONG passage
Paired short passages about company humor
Twin passages on black man in Tunisia, and biologist/chemist (mutating cell or watever)
Paired long passage on whether to consider the reader in your writing
Two short passages on random stuff that I cant remember, but they were easy.</p>

<p>^I had the same test. I don’t think any of these CR sections were experimental since there were only 3 of them and 4 of them math. one of the first two math was definitely experimental</p>

<p>What was the one that asked what is most similar to “push?” It was on the professor passage… I think I put strain…But it might have been press.</p>

<p>was it acute or sonorous</p>

<p>experimental is probably the one with the man on the moon</p>

<p>anyone remember any exact quotes from the boy and father passage?
The majority of the time, you can find the passages online somewhere.</p>

<p>did anyone get cajole for an SC?</p>

<p>yes cajole was one, acute was another</p>

<p>The one about disloyalty, I put confused. Because the way I thought about it, he was shocked, and he was confused about why he was being disloyal to the people that served their country.</p>

<p>Cajolery/Undertake was one and the elephants had acute hearing</p>

<p>Sentence Completion</p>

<p>Debilitate/Disheartening
Progenitor/Exploit
Penchant/Locution
Bolster
Rancor
Unflappable
_______/Mitigate
Prodigy/Anonymity
Austere/Unadorned
Acute
Cajolery/Undertake</p>

<p>Reading Questions</p>

<p>Father’s face was tender
Writer’s motto comes off as arrogant
Something wistfulness
Cards to cards - Continuous Sequence
Writing a novel Passage 1 was didactic
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
True writers - Genuine writers
Thieves analogy - Unaccustomed freedom</p>

<p>^ It’s not wistfulness. Although I skipped that one even though I was down to two of the right answers I did not know of what to pick, it’s A.
Lighthearted-- because the boy started to enjoy his experience in Chicago in the Motel and the father and him were “friends.”</p>

<p>does anyone know the answer to the first question of the test on the cr section?? the one about the deer and few surviving plants??</p>

<p>what was the one with the girl in the classroom who always disagree with other people?</p>