March 2012 SAT I Critical Reading Thread

<p>@forsworn99</p>

<p>It was indication because gesture means movement. She was looking at her aunts face, not any sort of movement. Therefore, indication was the best choice.</p>

<p>Did you guys get like 3 straight A’s and like 3 straight D’s on the chinese girl passage. I mean all my answers are pretty much agreed that they are correct. I was flipping out during the test cause I was like wth lol. You know that feeling when you keeping getting the same letter again and again.</p>

<p>yes, but for the chest:</p>

<p>Remember, “vital” (From the latin vita “life”) signifies something so important that one can’t live without it. that level of importance is not indicated (at least, definitely not explicitly) in the opening paragraph.</p>

<p>Was the transition one at the small paragraph with only the writer’s quote or at the line after that stating he had the fact stuck in his cerebellum or something?</p>

<p>@ay- the cerebellum one or whatever - the last paragraph.</p>

<p>What do you guys think the curve will be like on this one?</p>

<p>Yes ay.</p>

<p>10 chars</p>

<p>@forsworn99</p>

<p>my reasoning for sinister was that the chest was vital. Remember how it had the clothing that her aunt wore or passed down to her. Since she cherised her aunt so much and the fact that it contained “ancient chinese secrets” lead me to sinister. Furthermore it said the tiger and claw stuff but I saw that as imposing more than sinister because of its great importance. Since nothing “evil” is coming off, sinister was the logical choice.</p>

<p>^ yep fully agree with eagles94</p>

<p>it can’t be both familiar and sinister. It’s obviously familiar to her, so I put down sinister.</p>

<p>@eagles</p>

<p>No reasonable answer presents itself here IMO</p>

<p>Imposing- Obviously
Sinister- The beginning mentioned that a DARK and something chest was in her house
Vital - She cherished it with her life and at one point said in it lied the world
Regal- People here claim that it was described in an ornate fashion
Some other answer choice- not the right answer.</p>

<p>Sinister vs vital vs regal</p>

<p>Three debated and three refutable answers. Way to go CB!</p>

<p>^^ totally screwed that one up</p>

<p>lululululul.</p>

<p>I didn’t make the distinction between “to impose” and “imposing”</p>

<p>what was #6 vocab question for the last reading section with the double passage?</p>

<p>Does anyone remember something with choices “fusion”, “crystallization”?
That was an odd question. o.o</p>

<p>@mkin</p>

<p>I ommited it but it was beguiling…something</p>

<p>imposing means grand in appearance so if it’s imposing then it’s grand it can’t be both therefore its either sinister or vital</p>

<p>For the question about electorates, was the one which asked about the analogy to the world series of the last paragraph, was it something about to give a qualification?</p>

<p>@meatkabob: I found nothing of the sort. Likely experimental?</p>

<p>i still don’t understand why you consider it regal. it was dark and glaring with tigers whose claws sank into the ground…i see no resemblance to royalty or grandeur in this description</p>

<p>@prophylaxis: I understood the world series reference as the author trying to quantify his views, so I think I put qualification</p>

<p>Does anyone remember the question for the electoral college passage where the author of passage 2 made an analogy of the electoral college to World Series runs in baseball? if i recall the sentences in question referenced to how a team might still win the world series despite not making the most amount of runs, likening it to the electoral college. the question was something like, what was the purpose of the author making this analogy?</p>

<p>@drac</p>

<p>I know what you mean. All three of them were reaaally close. I wouldn’t be surprised if CB pulls a B-itch move and makes it like imposing lol. But between sinister and vital, it seems more likely that it is sinister. I am not saying take it as truth. Not every answer on here, even the ones we agree are true as I look back on past sat threads. So yeah, hope CB pulls this question out.</p>