June 2009 SAT Critical Reading

<p>unintentional forces could also be physical ones</p>

<p>the answer was physical</p>

<p>was the answer to the NY thing convivality? i just guessed</p>

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<p>Yes!</p>

<p>When I read the choices, I was like, “con” means like, “with” (I know it doesn’t, but that’s what I thought about… XD) and “vivare” in Italian/latin is to live. And it was a celebration. :D!</p>

<p>Protean worked oddly in my mind, too. I thought of pro-create.</p>

<p>haha</p>

<p>i picked conviviality cause i thought of vivid/vivacious and linked that with celebration</p>

<p>and picked protean cause it reminded me of protein and i thought that related to virus some how</p>

<p>only about 4 wrong so far hoping to keep 700+</p>

<p>alstair interconnected genes
dramatic then anticlimax
enigmatic
biased
mechanical = physical
distressed/opposed
convivial
expectation and reality
tropical ocean
direct quotes
more historical
expression/intensity of need
perturbed
attitude toward students
impassioned
eating nutrients
dailiness everyday life
solid “state” = form
edison practical intelligence
prestigious endorsement
whale astonishingly friendly and fluid
democratic
obsolescence (still in debate w/ attracting visitors choice and domineering)
poke fun (still in debate w/ contradictory)
protean (not virulent)
empathy
negligent, essential
engagement = involvement
_, equanimity (first blank anyone?; not vehemence/ire)
naivete
scientifically inclined (still in debate w/ philosophical)
destroying/instill
conviviality
infinitesimal</p>

<p>yes! so far from what i have read i haven’t gotten any wrong…I did omit one though.</p>

<p><em>edit</em> okay, minus one >_<</p>

<p>Which question’s answer was “convivial”? I can’t seem to remember… Can someone jog my memory?</p>

<p>Wasn’t the equanimity one distressed?
What was the wording for the equanimity one anyway…</p>

<p>also,
impersonal = lacking warmth = solitary
so personal v impersonal works</p>

<p>what was negligent essential from?? that was def. not a correct choice</p>

<p>I am still mad that the suburban city passage was not a real one. I would have landed that whole section. No doubt. :<</p>

<p>This equanamity one - I’m pretty sure it said something about arousing our ----------, but we controlled our ----------. Which is why I said vehemence and ire. Vehemence can be a state of strong emotion.</p>

<p>Why I put volcano: I toyed with the ocean one, because they talked about salt causing the worst damage. But the top of the paragraph distinctly said that older soil and rocks were more likely to crumble. So i picked the one that said, like, “the site of an old volcano” because it was the oldest physical location.</p>

<p>Also, what is this CAPITAL LETTERS question? I’m kinda freaking, cuz I don’t remember it, and I hope I didn’t skip a question and get the grid all #&^$ up. I had CR experimental, so I read all the passages, but I don’t remember that question. Which passage? </p>

<p>Oh - astonishing and fluid. Remember her name? The words of her name describe what she was like.</p>

<p>what suburban city passage?</p>

<p>yes joeyharvey
it said “we controlled our ------”
which means it had to be same word again
so it is vehemance and ire
why would u control ur equanimity?</p>

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<p>There was definitely something up with the wording in the volcano. It said “extinct.” Which not only stands for old, but for inactive, and dry. Which water is prone to go for. </p>

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<p>IT WASN’T LIKE THIS. I was first convinced, too, that I had completely skipped something XD. But it was the Crap That Was Like This. In the passage about the motorhome.</p>

<p>Personally, I think it was poking fun.</p>

<p>What was the answer to the capital letters question?</p>

<p>EDIT:
Ooh now I remember. I put “poking fun” as well.</p>

<p>Does anyone remember the spanglish passage. The questions were something like what does (a word starting with an m) tell us about spanglish what does stagnant mean in this passage . Iremember my answers being onerous and sluggish.</p>

<p>fernie i got unchanging for that one</p>

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<p>It was a really nice passage about how a woman living in a city and how she loved it. But it was wearing on her. So, her husband and her took a trip to Willow Street and she felt that this was ‘home.’ As in, her home to be, and where she needs to be. But her husband said ‘home’ as in, where they grow up. </p>

<p>I related to the passage a lot. I moved from a city I loved and it did wear on me. To the suburbs now. ANd how it initially felt like something really nice. But, as I look back, it’s something totally different. </p>

<p>So, in the passage, there was a conflict between the city and the suburbs and between her husband’s thought and her’s. Really good passage.</p>

<p>I got unchanging. </p>

<p>From Spanish -> English is a change. The Purists didn’t want the change. So, unchanging. :)</p>

<p>What’s the answer to the literary standards question in the black man passage? It was either restricted people from reading books not considered worthy of acclaim, or did not recognize that people judge books by their own experience. Ended up putting the 2nd one.</p>