June 2010 Critical Reading

<p>yes inconclusive was the results of the Harvard experiment and it was correct.</p>

<p>^^ no “one must practice 10000 hours in order to become a world class expert, regardless of talent” i don’t think that’s correct.
i put it depends on the quality of the training because that’s what the last paragraph talked about. anyone agree disagree?</p>

<p>Yeah ems sorry to say but I disagree with your choice. I had what the majority of others had: that hours of training is required to become an expert.</p>

<p>^that is what I put as well.</p>

<p>what was the question for curiosities on display for audience?</p>

<p>those two answers were very close together, so i just wanted to see which one was being referenced in the answers. It was really subtle</p>

<p>yes. i respuctfully disagree, ems. i am not sure if this was in the last paragraph, but i do remember a few sentences on a group of kids who, irrelevant of their teachers original ranking impression of them, were most successful after 10,000 hours of practice. just read Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.</p>

<p>hm oh well. i bombed this as i normally do.
but i keep thinking about this answer and i remember the question was asking what was the last paragraph talking about… and i keep remembering the answer i had explained the last paragraph while the majority’s answer explained the passage as a whole</p>

<p>I’d like to add one to the talent/practice passage…
“The kids didn’t know that they were categorized” or something along those lines?
Someone confirm?</p>

<p>Confirmed. ^</p>

<p>^Ditto, 10char</p>

<p>no, i thought the answer was “one group was made to practice more than the other”</p>

<p>@jolly
I agree.</p>

<p>how about “spare”, has it been confirmed?</p>

<p>I put bombastic, but I guess it was spare.</p>

<p>@ concertpianist: No. The passage did not say that one group practiced more than the other. It did, however, say that those who practiced more, regardless of which group they were in, achieved better results.</p>

<p>^Yes. on spare</p>

<p>@concertpianist: definitely not, the whole purpose of the study was to determine if amounts of practice affected the students, thus, they didn’t identify which group the students were in.</p>

<p>can someone please confirm “formidable linguistic problem” as an answer about the succes passage?</p>

<p>lol someone can repost the list, im too lazy to go back and find it</p>