<p>Yeah, I did get an unusual number of NE’s, actually.</p>
<p>I got the question about the number of points in the rectangle wrong then, as I was careless and didn’t take into account that I have to add all the possible coordinates… :/</p>
<p>I think I was pretty good at sentence completion this time though…</p>
<p>Reading
Sentence completion
-renewed interest in something, so ____ Hollywood films–> spate
-Amazon rain forest thing, malaria, can’t cultivate the soil. –>what’s the answer?
-Exaggerated gloom–>Lugubrious
-Malaise
-Prosaic
-Automaton
-Topography
-Avarice/beneficial
-Innocuous
-Venturesome</p>
<p>Encyclopedia Passage</p>
<p>Motorcycle Passage
-Difficult undertaking
-Short responses–>people are too busy to care about strangers
-“puzzling”–>truth stays in front ?? sth like that
-What does it suggest about those people who greet them, etc –> A: They are fully immersed in the present
-Disdained </p>
<p>Chinese Origin Passage
-Detached
-author’s “equanimity” when the mother told her that her grandmother has bound feet–>mother’s manner of speaking
-new appreciation??–> I chose like “motivation…unforthcoming”
-why did the author not ask until she was an adult sth like that…–> mother’s attitude being successful
-Why did the mother not talk about her past–> ?
-“my mother probably felt bad…”–> emotional response (?) other choices were like change in tone stuff like that
-I started answering/returning the calls of my mother’s past" –> contacting
-Why did the author (in the last paragraph) say it’s like a “map” list of names would allow the daughter to contact her mother’s relatives, understanding her past, history and essence.</p>
<p>Squid passage
- Something about the “dragons” etc –> A: they’re legendary creatures
- Common to both passages –> A: no one has studied/documented a live squid
-Something about comparing the 2 passages –> A: 2nd passage talks about how people view the creature described in 1st passage
-the squid’s unbelievability
-if we figure out the mystery of squid –> loss as well as gain</p>
<p>Math
-a^3 = b^2 which of the following is true. II and III.
-(negative)2/3
-18 trapezoids
-L = 2w, divided into 8 squares, what’s the side of the square in terms of L –> A:1/4 L
-Direct flight? –> D
-Triangles circles squares–> 250
-(x+k) (7x+h) = 7x^2 + cx + 6 -> c=17
-2.3 (question sth related to distance river)
-Cost of 6 lines in a magazine/newspaper A: 9.75
-z, y, x (order x y z least to greatest)
-2 circles tangent to each other longer side? –> r sqr root 3
-Parabola -> a=1/4
-Graph moved to the left
-Set X Set Y how many pairs R in the first letter sth like that –> 2
-Similar triangle 70:35 –> 100
-People new restaurant –> 84% not eated, 8 people who had eaten
-2<em>3</em>5
-Integers in a sequence–> 8 4 2 1 : total 4
-Total points in the rectangle –> 15</p>
<p>Writing
William sisters–> title: champion sisters
Surprised they’re sisters –> Venus and Serena are sisters
Braces –> unsightly contraptions</p>
<p>add more on the writing …</p>
<p>I believe that your second one for math should be -2/3, not 2/3 (unless you meant the dash to be a negative, but I assume you were using it as you were previously). Since the gradients had to be equal, and the first was 2/3, and the second equation was 1 - cx, c has to be -2/3 for the gradient to become 2/3.</p>
<p>@afayyad…you’re talking about the 6th section…the williams’ one was the 6th section…anyhow…i remember getting around 5 no error answers in section 3 and around 3 in section 6…let’s see how it goes</p>
<p>ah alright got the numbers mixed up, my bad.</p>
<p>There’s on average, like 4 NE’s per writing section. Just about always.
Okay I got the 2.3 one correct, I remember it now - I’m just hoping I put -2/3 and not 2/3 and got that 800. I believe I did but I’m not sure. This is going to drive me nuts for the next 3 weeks.</p>
<p>** Sentence completion **
-renewed interest in something, so ____ Hollywood films–> spate
-Amazon rain forest thing, malaria, can’t cultivate the soil. –> is pristine/deterred confirmed??
-Exaggerated gloom–>Lugubrious
-Malaise
-Prosaic what’s the sentence for this??
-Automaton
-Topography
-Avarice/beneficial
-Innocuous
-Venturesome
-Placate</p>
<p>** Chinese origin **
-author’s “equanimity” –> mother’s manner of speaking
-why did the author not ask until she was an adult “the mother successfully made her not care much”
-what was the reaction of the author to her mother’s indifference (1st question from that passage) –> E. The other choices were like she became curious about mother’s motivation, wanted to learn chinese/about relatives, etc
-Why did the mother not talk about her past –> coz didn’t wanna remember/past is painful (what’s the exact wording?)
-Why did the author say it’s like a “map” etc (referring to the list of names and phone numbers her mother gave her before she died)–> road to help her figure out her mother’s “essence” (there was a word essence…)
-Quoted a line about “my mother probably felt bad…” –> emotional response
-Quoted “I started answering/returning the calls of my mother’s past” –> started contacting
-Detached <a href=“what’s%20the%20question??”>u</a>
-new appreciation –> “motivation…unforthcoming” </p>
<p>** Byzantine passage **
-close knit
-what did the author think of those stuff she enumerated that the other kids thought were weird/different –> prosaic? or was it mundane?</p>
<p>** Biography **
-difference between the 2 passages –> subjects of biographies and one is about the biographies
-first author of one would respond to the other’s question –> Biographers do not attempt to make exact recreations of their subjects’ lives
-second author of one would respond to the other’s question –> may distort the truth
- was there a question asking what the lives of writers are like??</p>
<p>** Encyclopedia **
- Some quote about the future generation scorning upon the wrong data in the encyclopedia and filling a new one with their own nonsense. What does this suggest about the future generations–> A: they give themselves too much credit
-"why did the author list those stuff he/she found in the encyclopedia (it was a whole paragraph, second one I think) –> to show variety of topics - author’s opinion about the literary information in the encyclopedia (historical/literary parts) –> they’re excessively narrowed and biased</p>
<p>** Motorcycle **
- father twisting through the blahblah, you don’t get swung around (like when in a car) in the 2nd paragraph –> freedom…
- What does it suggest about those people who give short responses –> too busy to care about strangers
- What does it suggest about those people who greet them, etc –> They are fully immersed in the present
- How does the author view the “frame” (first paragraph when he was criticizing TV stuff) –> restricting
- The last question asked what the author meant by saying “puzzling” –> we don’t see those stuff directly in front of us, the obvious (or something like that)
- author’s attitude towards “TV” in the passage about a father riding a motorbike –> disdain
-difficult undertaking <a href=“what’s%20the%20question%20here??”>u</a>
-in the last paragraph, there was something quoted, around 2 words, describing the common conception of cities as the place to be etc. Question is on why the author used those two words –> to show the misconception - there’s an answer with “immediacy” in it I think? Anyone remember the question?</p>
<p>** Squid **
- Something about the “dragons” etc –> they’re legendary creatures
- Common to both passages –> no one has studied/documented a live squid?? Or is it the one about mythical creatures?? I remember there was an answer about “no one has studied… live squid”
- The one about the book that described the squid attacking stuff, what would the author of passage 2 infer –> that before it there are detailed descriptions about the squid
- Something about comparing the 2 passages –> 2nd passage talks about how people view the creature described in 1st passage
- In the anecdote part, the captain said he didn’t know how to react and then there was another quotation from the 2nd passage (it was a question, the first sentence in a paragraph I think … and starts with “can”), what do these quotations suggest –> the squid’s unbelievability
- Asks what would happen if we did figure out the mystery about the squid –> loss as well as gain</p>
<p>** MATH **</p>
<p>-The one with the chart of direct flights –> D (figure looks like an M shape or something)
-Trinkets question, made triangles, circles and squares –> 250
-asking for what number will make it have no solution –> -2/3
-Similar triangles, one side had the ratio 70:35, question asked 200:? –> 100
-Set X (R, some other letters), Set Y (W, X), how many pairs has R as the first letter –> 2
-The parabola question, what is a –> 1/4
-L = 2w, divided into 8 squares, what’s the side of the square in terms of L –> 1/4 L
-a^3 = b^2, what’s a possible value for a and b –> E (II and III)
-18 trapezoids
-27 in the number line
-17 as a possible value for the (x+k) (7x+h) = 7x^2 + cx + 6
-Charts with people who had eaten in the new restaurant and the distance from the restaurant –> 84% haven’t eaten
-same chart as above –> 8 had eaten
-The one with 2 circles tangent to each other, radius r, and then a right triangle was formed; length of the longer leg in terms of r –> r sqrt of 3
-Cost of 6 lines in a magazine/newspaper A: 9.75
-The one with the triangle and the legs were extended, some of those angles were given, asks you to order x, y, z from least to greatest –> z, y, x
-one with two triangles which share a side: one was equilateral with 60° angles, the other was right angled and isosceles (45°). It asked for an angle which was the sum of two angles –> 105°
-how many residences a college needs to house … students –> 6.
-INTERIOR of a rectangular that has vertexes … –> 15
-distance from river question –> 2.3
-how many numbers in a sequence are integers –> 4
-set X and set Y (how many did X have that didn’t belong to Y) –> 4
-1+k+m/m and m=k+1 –> 2
-in the grid-ins #2, asking for the area of 3 small triangles (each was half a square) and 1 big triangle –> 3.5
-3q=r 4r=t. what’s q/t? –> 1/12
-common factors –> 2<em>3</em>5
-graph shifted to the left
-cut off the edge of the square in the grid-in, how many vertices would you get –> 24
-(3^m) (3^3) = (3^m)^3. What’s m? –> 3/2</p>
<p>
About this question I think there’s an answer choice like: Future generations tend to forget (or ignore?) about the past. And i dont think it’s “they give themselves too much credit” as credit doesnt mean emphasis (emphasis is more appropriate in this situation)
Do you guys remember any other choice of this question? Somehow I can’t recall my answer for it…</p>
<p>for Sentence Com</p>
<p>Ravenous</p>
<p>Byzantine passage
-close knit -> what’s this??</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>there were choices lyk loss as well as gain, deplorable occurence but don’t remember other choices</p>
<p>
do you guys remember what the other choices were?</p>
<p>Disclaimer: Most answers are phrased differently. If you can remember the exact words, please enclose it in quotation marks so people would know.</p>
<p>getmeinpls - that’s the passage about the new kid and how a group of friends found her interesting and so took her in… she didn’t expect them to but her everyday habits (which she considered ordinary) were peculiar to them.</p>
<p>kipling - can’t remember the other choices, but that was the question asking how the author of the 1st passage may respond to the author of passage 2. Passage 1 mentioned how biographers exaggerate stuff, passage 2 talked about how biographers intentionally highlight seemingly ordinary events, etc to make it more interesting.</p>
<p>Oh and please post if you have different answers so we can compare/discuss!</p>
<p>For the Chinese question about the mother feeling bad that she couldn’t help.
I put “points to mother’s effort to help” because the others are not backed up in the passage. The sentence about mother feeling bad come immediately before she talks about the mother giving her the phone numbers. So I think it is “points to mother’s effort to help”</p>
<p>Oh! also, wasn’t the fill in the blank question for the amazon “inaccessible” and something else? because I don’t recall the sentence talking about the amazon being pure or anything and the sentence did not blame the settlers for anything. Rather the sentence states that the settler were kept out because of the diseases and the lack of minerals(?) in the soil for farming. I don’t think it is “pristine and deterred”.</p>
<p>Pristine means ‘in its original state’, which would perfectly fit into the sentence, seeing as 1. The soil wasn’t fertile enough and 2. People were afraid of the diseases, so they were ‘deterred’ from visiting the place.</p>
<p>Yeah in the sentence completion question about amazon forest there’s an answer choice like inaccessible and… (can’t remember) but inaccessible can be easily eliminated since the forest is NOT inaccessible, it’s just uncultivated for some reason as indicated in the sentence.</p>
<p>09jhyang - what question are you talking about (from the Chinese origin passage)?</p>
<p>So far does everyone agree to the other answers? I’ll edit the post in a while and include pristine/deterred and ravenous.</p>
<p>there was also one SC question that had answer choice like
allure…facetious
I remember this because I got this wrong
the first blank DID NOT fit for allure because the sentence was like
Although the room(?) lecture(?) I don’t remember sth was strict, boring… this someone brightened the room by being humorous sth like that
I knew that facetious fit in but I didn’t know what allure meant so I just guessed this
anybody remember this question? I think there was a word like monotony or not…</p>
<p>and yeah I agree with pristine…deter
and I jhyang really?? I put emotional response… do you remember what the other choices were?</p>
<p>also for the squid passage
there was one question that asked what was the purpose of the passage
I don’t remember what I chose but I remember one of the wrong choices
there was a word like “celebratory(?)”
if anybody remember this we should add it to the list </p>
<p>we should try to make a complete list just like those people in the SAT American thread did</p>
<p>-Quoted a line about “my mother probably felt bad…” –> emotional response</p>
<p>That’s the question asking why the author assumed the mother felt bad right? And the answer is … either “emotional response” or “points to mother’s effort to help”? Kipling, can you remember other words in the “emotional response” choice??</p>
<p>I think for the SC question you’re talking about I picked the one with ___, ironic. Is that one of the choices?</p>
<p>For the squid passage, did the question asked about the purpose of the 1st passage or the 2nd passage? My memory’s getting hazy now … :(</p>
<p>And yeah, I’m trying to compile a list of answers. We don’t have much from the writing section though … please post if you remember something. I think the one question we argued about was the Tom Cruise braces thing, which sentence should be omitted.</p>