<p>Thanks. I thought about three of the vocab/SC ones per each section were very hard.</p>
<p>does anyone remember if acolyte was question 5, choice B?</p>
<p>for those who got reading experimental, may i know if your writing section contains passage about Williams Sisters?</p>
<p>My corrections: Added severe to “???/Upbraid”
Changed “3rd to last question” to “Statement about ppl who practice but fail”
Removed “painful to stay because of “isolation”” in Boy & Author
Added presents an issue/references specific studies in Talent/Practice passage</p>
<p>Total: 53/67</p>
<p>Sentence Completion - 14/19
Diverse
Devised
Ignominy
Acolyte
Ubiquitous
Apoplectic
Charismatic
Provisional
Matured, Fulfilling
Severe, Upbraid
Underdog
Pioneer, Vanguard
Complicity, Exonerated of
Fight, Rampant</p>
<p>– Short Passage –</p>
<p>Rachel Carson/environmentalism
Marking a watershed moment in public
Respectful</p>
<p>Reading Promotes Learning
Make a claim
Debatable</p>
<p>Independent Films (Paired Passage)
familiar and overly alarmed
monetary concerns
passage 2 is more optimistic</p>
<p>– Long Passage –</p>
<p>Talent/Practice
to examine a psychological experiment
“account” = explained
muddling of cause and effect
walking, talking, potty training: people develop at different times
basketball players, other professions: broad application of a principle
Harvard researchers chose that specific group because “they had a specific talent”
Presents issue/reference specific studies ???
Statement about ppl who practice but fail: “to demonstrate an incomplete explanation”
10,000 Hours question (second to last): “even if one has a talent, one needs to practice for years to become an expert”</p>
<p>Boy and Author
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>Girl in Austria
father wanted her to go on the trip “to learn about her non-English relatives”.
“freedom” means “releasing emotional burdens”
appalled = different viewpoints have equal values
likes her grandfather because “he talked about the present”
felt “disdain” for parent’s nostalgia about tearfully watering plants
“loved father like she loved a horse” = elaborate on previous sentence
painful to stay because of “isolation”</p>
<p>Zoos (Paired Passage)
products of human culture
condition: state of being
spectatorship: strong disapproval
savvy about nature of zoos
curiosities 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>Also… there is a question in the Talent/Practice passage about the layout of the passage. I thought it was “presents an issue and references specific studies”, but it could also be “introduces a debate and makes a compromise”.</p>
<p>Which one is it?</p>
<p>Also, I remember a question about a guy making exhortation to warn people to support a war intervention in the sentence completion. Since I got an experimental reading, it might have came from there. Can anyone confirm this?</p>
<p>I definitely think it was presents an issue & references specific studies. 
You could kind of say there was a debate between talent v. practice but what’s the compromise? the issue isn’t resolved. Doesn’t make sense & the presents an issue one does perfectly.</p>
<p>I didn’t get that unless my memory is failing me. I’m pretty sure that’s experimental.</p>
<p>^^I think I put the compromise one, simply because it was more specific to the passage.
But it makes sense because the debate was whether musical prowess was caused by talent or practice; the compromise being that he ended the passage with the idea that it might take both; thus, a middle ground between the two debates.</p>
<p>I agree with naomikt, because it really wasn’t a debate, he was just citing lots of studies.</p>
<p>I had presents and issue and cited specific studies.
Also I mentioned this one earlier but just in case it got lost in all the mess
Kate characterized the old ways as “snobbishly excessive” - That’s what I as well as a few others had as well.</p>
<p>So did we finally agree on dichotomy and the notebook and annotated edition questions?</p>
<p>Ahh I remember the notebook and annotated questions but I don’t remember exactly what it was asking. Care to elaborate on it so it may jog my memory?</p>
<p>Wasnt the one about the Austrian girl: “to Learn about her relatives”, or to “increase her affection for her relatives”, or was this another ? or answer choice?</p>
<p>for “even if one has a talent, one needs to practice for years to become an expert”, was that answer choice B or C? </p>
<p>because i put B down first but changed my answer to C (which ahd the 10000hours in the answer) because B said the person assumed the person to be innate…</p>
<p>and sorry but what was the consensus on the dichotomy question? I know i def got it wrong b/c i put "topic of psychology :/</p>
<p>jjtheairplane</p>
<p>I had “to increase her affection for her relatives” as an answer. </p>
<p>For the father one where it asked why he wanted her to go I had “To learn about her non-english heritage” or something. Can anyone confirm please?</p>
<p>wait, you choose that, or was it one of the answer choices. So those were 2 differnet ?'s</p>
<p>I had “to increase her affection for her relatives” as an answer to one question.
ANOTHER question, I had “To learn about her non-english heritage” or something. </p>
<p>So yes, two different questions.</p>
<p>:(whatwould at least 2 wrong drop me downto as my highest possible score?</p>
<p>Oh ok, yeah i choose those two,
confirm anyone?</p>