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<p>Compiled answer for CR: (By sequence)</p>

<p>THE FIRST SECTION</p>

<p>Literature passage/fragile document

  1. Defining a quality
  2. Fragility</p>

<p>Spice trade

  1. Characterization of spice trade is dramatic
  2. Pivotal to world success</p>

<p>Higher education (Pared Passages)

  1. Idealistic
  2. Realistic (not uninformed)
  3. simply means “fundamentally”
  4. the parenthesis in line … to … is to predict reaction and respond.
  5. Encourage students with their interests
  6. Snide
  7. Goals of college education
  8. lose sight of what is important
  9. Method used in writing is repetition
  10. P2 presents a view P1 finds objectionable
  11. Similar thing in both passages- faculty’s role and coursework can lead to good civil character.
  12. Hit means “reached”</p>

<p>SECOND SECTION</p>

<p>Library/electronic books (Pared Passages)

  1. Author 2 respond to a question asking by author 1.
  2. Library provide sensory details.
  3. He bought a book electronically while sitting in a library.
  4. P1 and P2 hold different perspectives.</p>

<p>Sphinx

  1. Photographs take away from the novelty. (Mark Twain at least had a photo of sphinx)
  2. The professor in line 52 is pompous and stuffy.
  3. Evocative for sphinx.
  4. Atypical (The 19th century famous painter was very scupulous, yet he mistook the direction of sun set in his painting of the sphinx)
  5. Proper is close to correct.
  6. Understandably unreliable.
  7. Sphinx’s stare holds.</p>

<p>Telescope

  1. Comparing astronomers to musicians: share similar experiences as novices.
  2. Simile between sky and lens: there is a perfect spot for viewing.
  3. Reflective and informative.
  4. Passage was mainly about an experience or development in a time of his life
  5. Ephemeral but powerful.
  6. In the passage involving telescopes, the author describes the following situation: “Once I received my new high-powered telescope, I could see the golden nebulas, Ursula major, hot and cold gases in distant galaxies, etc. These sights ballooned my system of what is plausible.” The author felt about seeing the universe through his new telescope is that he is hard to believe. (NOT difficult to take in)
  7. Assertion followed by comical anecdote.
  8. Adjust the power insead of using maxium power</p>

<p>SECTION 3</p>

<p>Grandma and two girls

  1. First paragraph provided a context.
  2. One of the girls was obedient.
  3. Grandma was being a bully in the other one.
  4. Grandma was being adamant when she stood in place.
  5. The passage mainly describes a conflicts
  6. Familiar experiences (Para. 2 two girls frequent grandma’s home)
  7. Compared the two girls to spectators watching a tennis match is close attention.
  8. “What are you doing?” in line 42, 56 and 74 is to show growing indignant feeling.
  9. she left resentfully acknowledged.
  10. additional
  11. The dialogue was shifted to personal insults
  12. Girl’s grandma was commanding</p>

<p>So far:</p>

282

<p>@donnykim: What is the last question left for CR? It’s 47/48, and we are almost there.</p>

283

<p>@danny</p>

<p>something about calculating the weather was an estimation that fit with other calcuations?</p>

<p>and something about disproving a part of science that couldn’t be completely disproved?</p>

<p>something about p1 thinks the author of p2 in progressors has forgotton/lose vision of what is important in education?</p>

284

<p>kohsuan you forgot something about the grandma was cooking or made a comment about the other granny’s cooking??</p>

285

<p>LOVE YOU donnykim! :slight_smile: <em>hugs</em>
I am getting a little too skeptical now. 660->800 seems an unbelievable improvement lol.</p>

286

<p>Is the question about “One of the girl only ate the thing cooked by grandma for her”?</p>

287

<p>Props. So we are all in agreement with the final consolidated list?</p>

288

<p>Compiled answer for CR: (By sequence)</p>

<p>THE FIRST SECTION</p>

<p>Literature passage/fragile document

  1. Defining a quality
  2. Fragility</p>

<p>Spice trade

  1. Characterization of spice trade is dramatic
  2. Pivotal to world success</p>

<p>Higher education (Pared Passages)

  1. Idealistic
  2. Realistic (not uninformed)
  3. simply means “fundamentally”
  4. the parenthesis in line … to … is to predict reaction and respond.
  5. Encourage students with their interests
  6. Snide
  7. Goals of college education
  8. lose sight of what is important
  9. Method used in writing is repetition
  10. P2 presents a view P1 finds objectionable
  11. Similar thing in both passages- faculty’s role and coursework can lead to good civil character.
  12. Hit means “reached”</p>

<p>SECOND SECTION</p>

<p>Library/electronic books (Pared Passages)

  1. Author 2 respond to a question asking by author 1.
  2. Library provide sensory details.
  3. He bought a book electronically while sitting in a library.
  4. P1 and P2 hold different perspectives.</p>

<p>Sphinx

  1. Photographs take away from the novelty. (Mark Twain at least had a photo of sphinx)
  2. The professor in line 52 is pompous and stuffy.
  3. Evocative for sphinx.
  4. Atypical (The 19th century famous painter was very scupulous, yet he mistook the direction of sun set in his painting of the sphinx)
  5. Proper is close to correct.
  6. Understandably unreliable.
  7. Sphinx’s stare holds.</p>

<p>Telescope

  1. Comparing astronomers to musicians: share similar experiences as novices.
  2. Simile between sky and lens: there is a perfect spot for viewing.
  3. Reflective and informative.
  4. Passage was mainly about an experience or development in a time of his life
  5. Ephemeral but powerful.
  6. In the passage involving telescopes, the author describes the following situation: “Once I received my new high-powered telescope, I could see the golden nebulas, Ursula major, hot and cold gases in distant galaxies, etc. These sights ballooned my system of what is plausible.” The author felt about seeing the universe through his new telescope is that he is hard to believe. (NOT difficult to take in)
  7. Assertion followed by comical anecdote.
  8. Adjust the power instead of using maximum power</p>

<p>SECTION 3</p>

<p>Grandma and two girls

  1. First paragraph provided a context.
  2. One of the girls was obedient.
  3. Grandma was being a bully in the other one.
  4. Grandma was being adamant when she stood in place.
  5. The passage mainly describes a conflicts
  6. Familiar experiences (Para. 2 two girls frequent grandma’s home)
  7. Compared the two girls to spectators watching a tennis match is close attention.
  8. “What are you doing?” in line 42, 56 and 74 is to show growing indignant feeling.
  9. she left resentfully acknowledged.
  10. additional
  11. The dialogue was shifted to personal insults
  12. Girl’s grandma was commanding
  13. One of the girl only ate the thing cooked by grandma for her</p>

<p>So far: 48/48</p>

289

<p>Well the question itself was not about whether the “girl only ate”; it was something more like how did the grandma respond to that, so yes…</p>

290

<p>And the answer includes something like “cooked”</p>

291

<p>(1) The Author of 19th Century San Francisco showed the primacy of biographies in her narrative depicting her life and then there was a semicolon; she incorporated many accounts of different people along the lines of that.
(2) Latitude lines are spaced about 70 miles apart, so they are adequate for general regions, but not to pinpoint locations.
(3) shortcomings
(4) easygoing
(5) disconcert (for the guy who had to extemporize) … furnish
(6) peremptory … ordeal
(7) eludes … classification
(8) assiduous (girl paid attention in school)
(9) pompous … stuffy
(10) diminutive
(11) confounded … inscrutable
(12) neophyte
(13) circumvent
(14) consensus (congressman) … unlikely
(15) he tried to justify his actions
(16) estimation
(17) disprove
(18) flop
(18/19)</p>

<p>What is the last question?</p>

292

<p>Kudos to EVERYONE who has put even the most diminutive of efforts in making these lists!
I am sorry I can’t be a part of this because my memory is not very reliable( I am unable to remember what the paragraph editing was about in writing section!)</p>

293

<p>Does anyone have any info about the June 2012 US curve? Any input would be appreciated!!
EDIT: Can anyone, for god’s sake, tell the me the choices of Novelty photograph question in sphinx passage?
Please help guys. #Paranoid</p>

294

<p>BuMp BuMp…</p>

295

<p>DANNY007: The novelty question was about the function of the “photographs”. Many novelists had to imagine sphinx in their mind without looking at the photos so they felt shocked at the astonishing figure; Mark Twain was the first one to take a photo of the sphinx, so he did not felt as surprised as those who saw sphinx for the first time.</p>

296

<p>Thx Kohsuan :). But that’s not what I want to ask. I want to ask what were the other 4 incorrect choices? I don’t remember this question AT ALL and neither do I remember this choice. So, if you tell me the other choices, maybe I can figure out what I put. Now, I am thinking that I messed up my bubbling… Oh well… crap :confused:
I can see my 800 fly away… slowly and steadily… I will be back to my old score due to my excellent bubbling **** my bubbling errors… I wish the exam was in online mode :(</p>

297

<p>Essay topic was about consumers’ responsibilities to purchase goods from socially beneficial organizations or people. </p>

<p>i wrote about tht nowadays people are buying things tht are not beneficial to them or to other people ??? </p>

<p>is my writing relevant or it’s off ? ? ? </p>

<p>i gave a perfect examples about useless goods ? ? help plz</p>

<p>the international version</p>

298

<p>Sorry ahmedzzz. I can’t help you.
Someone PLEASE( for god’s sake) answer my query? o.O
Can anyone, for god’s sake, tell the me the other ( which are wrong )choices of Novelty photograph question in sphinx passage?
Please help guys. #Paranoid</p>

299

<p>does anyone remember selecting a choice like "unrattled…"in SC?
and what’s the question about “P1 and P2 holds different perspective"and"understandbly unreliable”?
Also, I want the other wrong choices about the Sphinx passage and the short pair about library.</p>

300

<p>who took the test in canada? anyone</p>