June 2010 Critical Reading

<p>i remember autonomy I think</p>

<p>how did the austrian girl felt about her parent’s nolstagia?
disdain?</p>

<p>yes, disdain (or something similar to that).</p>

<p>Yea I recall savvy in zoo.</p>

<p>^ yea savvy with the nature of zoos or something</p>

<p>I also recall savvy.</p>

<p>did the girl felt isolated ?</p>

<p>…right now according to the list I’ve only missed 2-3 CR questions, all SC too. AWESOME!</p>

<p>Were they acting to earn her sympathy?</p>

<p>^ i don’t think so</p>

<p>tenacious means stubborn so no.</p>

<p>Oh, maybe it was release of emotional burden. The emotional burden was that they were still pining away for their old life (when they should’ve just accepted their circumstances.)</p>

<p>@begoodperson - I don’t think I used outside sources. I’ll explain it another way - the dichotomy was that musical mastery is the result of either talent or practice. The two “contradicting statements” can’t be combined or harmonized because the passage ended on an ambiguous tone about the talent. We still don’t know whether real talent (and this was explained in the four points, like that it has to be genetic, can be identified in childhood, etc.) exists. The brain structures cited had a muddled cause and effect - is it genes that cause them to be bigger, or practice that make them grow abnormally large?
So, how can the explanation for talent be combined with anything if it hasn’t been verified the way practice is?</p>

<p>what were the questions and answer choices for approbated and underdog?</p>

<p>S/C
Devised
Ignomity
Acolyte
Ubiquitous
Apoplectic</p>

<p>Short P
Rachel Carson story
Marking a watershed moment in public
Respectful</p>

<p>Make a claim
Debatable</p>

<p>Long P
Argentinian author and author reading stories aloud
Recount unusual experience –> new understanding
happy in his subordinate role
author’s impression with reality
apprehending –> perceiving
author’s lack of control
valuable for readers make connections w/ past readings</p>

<p>Zoo story (double passage)
products of human culture
condition: state of being
Spectatorship – > strong disapproval
savvy about nature of zoos
curiositires on display for audience
unconcerned with debates about zoo
fun comes at the expense of real insight of animals
do not offer authentic experience of wild animals
passage 1 makes argument that passage 2 finds unpersuasive</p>

<p>This is only one section of the entire CR! let’s complete the list of answers!</p>

<p>what’s the answer for dichotomy?</p>

<p>@marderina, makes more sense now. But so did experiments not proving anything. Tough question it was.</p>

<p>best91hs - Do you remember the questions to these answers? They sorta ring a bell, but sorta don’t at the same time.</p>

<p>author’s impression with reality
curiositires on display for audience</p>

<p>You know, suddenly, I’m so glad I’m not American. This was my last time taking the SAT if I could help it, and I got all the vocab (most probably all correct) in under 7 minutes flat. Across all 3 sections. Seriously.</p>

<p>@begoodperson - I was so so so confused by the dichotomy one. I had about 10 min. left on that CR section, and all of it was dedicated to this. Lmao, I didn’t even understand the question at first. I was so convinced my book had a typo or something -.-</p>

<p>Who knows, maybe it’ll end up being the contradicting one? College Board has fun with their answers.</p>

<p>curiositires on display for audience </p>

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<p>I remember that question, but I don’t think I put that…I was going back and forth but can’t remember the other one I was thinking about.</p>