<p>@kipling123: i’m pretty sure that allure…facetious is not the answer. I chose …droll the first word can’t remember…</p>
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I can’t seem to remember this question… was it one of the easier ones? Anyone remember what it actually was?</p>
<p>Also, there’s a part in that Chinese passage - why did she feel her mother wanted to help her more - answer: she pointed her to an action that helped her (or something like that)
And the last question in that passage: She returned the phone calls of the past: started calling the people on her mother’s list.</p>
<p>For the question about which sentence should be omitted in Tom Cruise passage I think I put sentence 5, something about wearing braces is good for both health and appearance.</p>
<p>@zdragon123 yes that was the answer… though I got it wrong </p>
<p>I agree kaitlin my memory is getting hazy too
well from what I could remember was like </p>
<p>there was this quote and I think the question asked why the author thinks this way? (I really can’t remember) anyways the answer choices were like
-mother’s emotional response to the conversation(?) –> remember how the mother tries to avoid the conversation she shows this emotional response that she tries not to talk about her past for it was too painful for her that’s why I chose this
-points to mother’s help(?) –> I’m positively sure that this was on the test but I’m starting to doubt whether these two choices were talking about one question
I think these are two separate questions </p>
<p>there was also one question (easy one)
where I think the question had “realization” what word could replace this word (?)
I think the answer was accomplishment (sth like that ) </p>
<p>for the brace question I really can’t remember
but wasn’t there a sentence like was really off
idfposter (?) I’m sorry but there was this really wacky word so I chose this sentence that should be eliminated from the passage </p>
<p>you guys probably don’t know what I’m talking about
but really… it’s so hard to recall the questions</p>
<p>jimmy - it was the one with the function. The question was something like they had to use portable buildings, and the number of portable buildings used depend on the number of students. </p>
<p>* “And the last question in that passage: She returned the phone calls of the past: started calling the people on her mother’s list.”* –> That ** is** the answer I wrote right?? </p>
<p>So do we all agree it’s not emotional response, but “points to mother’s efforts to help”? I really can’t remember what the “emotional response” choice is about though… who answered this? Help anyone??</p>
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<p>typicalsenior - Can you explain why the sentence talking about how Tom Cruise must’ve had the money for braces… fits in the passage?? That information wasn’t connected to anything else…</p>
<p>Can anyone remember the words for the SC about “Although the room(?) lecture(?) I don’t remember sth was strict, boring… this someone brightened the room by being humorous sth like that”?</p>
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<p>kipling - I remember the realization-accomplishment question! </p>
<p>What’s the first word that comes with “droll”? And was ___, ironic one of the choices? If so, what’s the first word there?</p>
<p>Do you remember what that sentence was talking about (braces Tom Cruise, omit)?</p>
<p>@kaitlin I THINK it was insipid…droll
um… do you happen to remember the sc question that had the word malaise?
if so, do you remember what the question was about? </p>
<p>I really think I should cancel this, I already got 4 wrong for sure 
how are you guys doing?</p>
<p>^I think the word was monotony</p>
<p>Yep that’s it monotony…droll, remember it now. And about the question: The candidate’s remarks are so… that the critics can’t find anything to use against him- I don’t think the answer is innocuous since it doesn’t have anything to do with the critics and moreover it doesn’t have anything about if others can use anything against him. If the sentence goes like this: The candidate’s remarks are so… that the critics can’t find anything offensive, innocuous’d be a great choice.
Yeah there’s a sentence that has malaise as the answer</p>
<p>zdragon: but what other answer choice would fit? Innocuous would do because it could mean “Because his statement was innocuous/harmless/inoffensive, critics can’t find anything [in his statement] to use against him.”</p>
<p>Does anyone remember what the first word paired with “ironic” is?? I think I answered that, but I can’t remember anymore what the first word was…</p>
<p>For the Braces part of the writing section, The sentence you guys are talking about says that “Tom Cruise can afford expesive braces, but he can’t avoid the discomfort of it” (something along those lines)…I think i didn’t pick this one, but section 3 writing section didn’t really go the right way for me…so…:S I am just saying because some of you guys are confusing the sentence by combining it with the sentence after it, which was “It must have been very difficult for a star like him to admit his physical flaws”.</p>
<p>Kipling, I am pretty positive that “points to the mothers efforts” is the answer because the passage before it talked about how the mother still avoids talking and cries out “I just don’t want to remember it”. I don’t think this neccessarily indicates that Mother feels bad for not helping. It can, but i thought “points to the mothers efforts” was the best option.</p>
<p>for the TV frame qn, you sure it is restricting? I remember I put something like lack of active participation</p>
<p>and the encyclopedia quote qn, i dun remember A has given themselves too much credit, i put E, contemptuous of the definitive knowledge (something like that)</p>
<p>oh yeah I put active participation too </p>
<p>but for the encyclopedia I said
sth like exaggerated self-regard?</p>
<p>Yeah I think the correct option was- they overestimated the knowledge of their time.</p>
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<li>kaitlin01: I think I chose the sentence talking about how good braces are because right after that the writer started discussing about the inconvenience of braces, so the sentence sort of disrupted the flow of the passage. I was torn between this sentence and the Tom Cruise one you talked about, but in the end I settled with the former.</li>
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<p>guys can you please tell me what the SC question was about malaise? </p>
<p>also the squid passage question one of the answer choices was like “may distort the truth” </p>
<p>oh and I just thought up one more math question (was pretty easy)
it was one of this folded paper thing that was cut in the corner
and had to guess what the shape would look like if you unfold it</p>
<p>sth like the professors are suffering from some unease</p>
<p>^ That folding question I picked A.</p>
<p>Okay sorry, I just paraphrased some of them. Here’s the edited version. Tell me if there’s something wrong. @f1kecy… - why would answer be “contemptuous of definitive knowledge”??</p>
<p>** Sentence completion **
-renewed interest in something, so ____ Hollywood films–> spate
-Amazon rain forest thing, malaria, can’t cultivate the soil. –> pristine/deterred
-Exaggerated gloom–>Lugubrious
-Malaise
-Automaton
-Topography
-Avarice/beneficial
-Innocuous
-Venturesome
-Ravenous
-Placate
-monotony/droll
-tutelage/evidenced</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…”, why did the author assume that the mother felt bad –> emotional response or points to mother’s efforts to help
-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”
-another word for realization –> accomplished (is this question from the Chinese origin passage?? I can’t remember</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</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?? –> life is not the right material for good fiction (?)</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–> exaggerated self-regard
-"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) –> lack of active participation
- 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>Oh, does anyone have any complaints about the math stuff I posted? :)</p>
<p>erm I think I am wrong for that qn
for the difficult undertaking, I remember I chose it under the Chinese origin one first qn, coz all other choices seem to be wrong
what is the sentence for prosaic in SC? coz i only remember there is one choice in the Byzantine reading</p>