<p>@young</p>
<p>Completely agree with you. I put the latter at first, but it was analyze the faults. He was telling the observers to talk more about their own plans and their viability. </p>
<p>@thesmiter</p>
<p>Nowhere did he endorse a system that counts everyone’s vote equally…he is just commentating on it. It asks for what the author would think about the critics</p>
<p>@dream</p>
<p>the word starting with a P</p>
<p>@thesmiter</p>
<p>peremptory fits perfectly.</p>
<p>Okay, do you guys remember the January CR? That was pretty hard- I got -6 and that was a 720. </p>
<p>Do you think that the curve will be pretty nice this time? What do you think, say a -4, will get you?</p>
<p>@forsworn</p>
<p>I think the curve will be the same as JAN. Jan was dirt hard yet it had an average SAT curve according to erikthered.com</p>
<p>This one will be -3(points ,not answers) = 800, -4(points, meaning 3 wrong), 790/780
-5 points - 770-780</p>
<p>Wait drac how do you know that -3 points would be an 800.</p>
<p>In no way was that January’s curve o_o</p>
<p>My explanation for evenhanded a few pages back</p>
<p>Passage 1 was more tolerant and stated that critics of the Electoral college should also analyzed disadvantages of any other system that would replace the electoral college while Passage 2 pretty much shunned the whole desire to reform the electoral college…
Passage 1 is giving critics a chance to argue their side, (thus evenhanded, more fair).</p>
<p>@jimmypod: Aw, shoot. Missed that one, then. I think I read peremptory as preemptive.</p>
<p>@thesmiter: yeah that’s EXACTLY what I did haha. which is why I put superlative. bleh.</p>
<p>I hope to God that -3 = 800. </p>
<p>But yeah, that was not the January curve to my understanding… can people quickly say how many they got wrong on the January CR and what their CR score was?</p>
<p>Again, my was -6 (0 omitted) and 720.</p>
<p>In the chest question, the author said that the chest “held court” with the lavish furniture. </p>
<p>According to Dictionary.com the etymology of the expression “hold court” is as follows: “Etymology: based on the idea of a KING who holds court (surrounds himself with people of high social rank and people who give advice)”</p>
<p>So regal simply cannot be an answer.</p>
<p>Consumer rights organization Americans for Educational Testing Reform (AETR) has criticized College Board for violating its non-profit status through excessive profits and exorbitant executive compensation; twelve of its executives make more than $300,000 per year,[7] with CEO Gaston Caperton earning over $800,000.[8] AETR also claims that College Board is acting unethically by selling test preparation materials, directly lobbying legislators and government officials, and refusing to acknowledge test-taker rights.[9]</p>
<p>non profit my donkey you know what</p>
<p>Anyways im gonna add some input into these controversial answers. I think it was evenhanded because the author was telling the critics of the electoral system not to be complacent and just bash it. They have to come up with a better system and he said that not every system can be “perfect” and every system has “set backs.” So he is presenting an impartial argument. He is presenting BOTH sides. </p>
<p>Just my two cents.</p>
<p>My Jan. CR: -4 = 750. Get angry just writing that.</p>
<p>@msteiny1212: exactly. ytf was the january curve for CR so harsh; that was a hard test…</p>
<p>Please make the curve nice this time, oh CB… i just want to go to college…</p>
<p>For further comparison…my Nov. score:
790 for -2 on CR.</p>
<p>Wait, to make sure, when people say -4 or -3, they mean “minus 4/3 WRONG”, right?</p>
<p>yeah @forsworn. I think that there will be a nice curve on this. -2 800, -4 780, -5, 750, -8 720</p>
<p>the chest one is definitely not vital. it said the chest gripped the floor or something like that implying that the chest is vital. i put sinister but i was in between sinister and regal.</p>
<p>i’m merely writing this message to say: #$%! the experimental critical reading. that fishing nonsense was garbage. does anybody remember the sentence completions that came along with that reading?</p>
<p>for january i had -5 and omitted 1 and got a 720</p>
<p>r4vzl3j9: Do you even know what vital means? And both of your choices are wrong, because it couldnt have been sinister; that was the most obvious instant-exclusion when I saw that option. The whole thing talked about how menacing looking it was. And regal, there was something in the text indicating it was regal and there was a defined term, the manufacturer of the chest, that talked about the extreme lavishness of the furniture they created. So since regal = lavish/fancy, no. I chose vital.</p>