June 2009 SAT Critical Reading

<p>Ok, so the embargo is lifted so let's discuss!</p>

<p>Did you have the City and Suburban lady passage? Not only did I love the passage, but I felt I did really well on it.</p>

<p>yea, same here, but i had 4 CR sections, and it was one of the four. i thought i did really well on it as well. hope that wasnt experimental.</p>

<p>Prehistoric art = experimental</p>

<p>did not have city/suburban lady :P</p>

<p>which one was prehistoric art, was that the same section with the black author?</p>

<p>if you had 4 CR sections, remember what you had for the 20 minute section. If it had two separate long reading passages, then the 25 minute section with two long reading passages was experimental. If the 20min had 1 long passage, then the 25 min section w/ 1 long passage is experimental. And if the 20min had passage1/2 together, then the corresponding 25 minute section is experimental.</p>

<p>Paleolithic art is the double-passages experimental.</p>

<p>did you guys have a CR on censorship in librarires and schools?</p>

<p>I don’t remember anything about censorship, but my memory is quite terrible at remembering specific test info.</p>

<p>censorship?? there was one on libraries and books and one on education and universities and business, but not both.</p>

<p>aggh does anyone think that the paired reading passage on universites and business was hard?</p>

<p>i felt like the CR section was very odd for some reason…</p>

<p>The one with the black author (I didn’t like that section at all), was not the experimental. I had the math experimental. </p>

<p>Paleolithic art? No I didn’t have that.</p>

<p>the black author was the one about books and stuff right?</p>

<p>anyone guys let’s starting asking questions?</p>

<p>was distressed/opposed an answer to one of the SCs?</p>

<p>You mean the black author talking about segregation…which prevented him from entering libraries?</p>

<p>Anybody remember the passage about a girl and her husband, Alistair?</p>

<p>I got ABB for the last 3 answers (Perhaps DABB for the last 4? I don’t remember #20)</p>

<p>For 23 and 24: 23 I narrowed down to B and C, I ended up going with B because they never talk about whether or not other people are capable of coming to the same conclusion as Alistair, rather, Alistair just asserts that we’re the product of EVERYBODY’s past (past as a collective), so all people are universal/connected.</p>

<p>In 24, I chose B, more philosophical, because there is no talk about who is superior in terms of science–yes, genealogy is science, but they’re interpreting it, rather than making some sort of determination over what is right scientifically. You can argue that you’re the product of your own past, which may or may not eventually link you to the first man, etc, or you can argue that since all people descend from some common ancestor we are indeed the product of humanity’s past itself. As such, I see Alistair as more philosophical than his wife.</p>

<p>I put scientifically inclined. There was nothing to suggest the wife wasn’t on teh same level of philosophical devotion.</p>

<p>yes i got that for 23 and 24… does anyone kno the answer to the same passage about alistair and what the first two sentences were? (like anticlimactic humor)</p>

<p>Red Catharsis, I had those passages as well. Did you have a CR on censorship, cause I had 4 CR’s and I’m tryin to determine which one was experimental </p>

<p>Also, I chose the same for 23, but for 24 I said scientifically inclined, because I thought his wife was somehow philosophical because she made some deep statements at the end. Also, it said Alistair believed in fate, but he called it “genetic predisposition”, which seemed more scientific than philosophical, but I also wasn’t sure about that</p>

<p>yea, i think on that passage, a question was like, wat do the first two sentences do?
i put dramatic assertion and anticlimatic humor for that question. how about the question that asked why the author used capital letters?</p>

<p>I did put anticlimatic humor to a dramatic thingy.</p>

<p>Dang it – I put philosophical incline, b/c of his belief on fate…</p>

<p>smarts1: I think I put dramatic and then anticlimax</p>