March 2012 SAT I Critical Reading Thread

<p>To anyone that also took the January SAT…is it just me or was the cr section harder in march???</p>

<p>Does anyone remember choices on a sentence completion about caricature vs personification? I can’t remember if it was experimental or not.
Thanks!</p>

<p>I wouldn’t call that experimental though, because making zhongzhi is a Chinese tradition; hardly experimental, in my opinion.</p>

<p>@allan74</p>

<p>I didnt take it but I do wanna talk about the difficulty level. You guys know that CB sets the curve before hand right? They assign the difficulty levels. Its a pretty shi-tty system.</p>

<p>@eagles94
well that sucks…</p>

<p>@eagles94- are you serious?</p>

<p>so, you think a -4 could be above 750 on this one, though?</p>

<p>@forsworn99</p>

<p>No joke. Thats exactly what the experimental is for. So a question that they think is easy might be hard for you and a question thats hard maybe easy. I noticed this several times.</p>

<p>they then see how many difficult questions there are and then set the curve accordingly.</p>

<p>Can someone tell me which section was the experimental section?</p>

<p>@forsworn99
I’m no expert but judging on how hard this one was (atleast for me) I would say probably</p>

<p>Ugh, why can’t they just be normal about scoring the SATs? Like I’mm sure they don’t do this for the APs…</p>

<p>and @ allan: I actually thought the January CR was harder. Remember the photography passage <em>shudders</em> No doubt, there were a few toughies on this one, but it was still a bit easier… </p>

<p>The problem is I really don’t know how many I got wrong because all the ones I have questions about are undecided (vital vs. sinister, polemical vs. evenhanded, and a couple more I think…)</p>

<p>I know I probably have no right to ask this, but can someone gather all the answers into a single post?</p>

<p>That photography one was not friendly to me. But I would go with sinister and evenhanded.</p>

<p>does anyone know exactly how the question went for the undertaking and qualification one for the electoral college one? I forgot what I put, but listening to it detailed might ring a bell. Thanks!</p>

<p>What was “acute”? I put “keenly perceptive” but I’m having doubts now.</p>

<p>Acute was severe. Please go back and read the thread.</p>

<p>I had it down to keenly perceptive and severe. I put severe but looking back it was probably keenly perspective</p>

<p>For the one about the Chinese chest, people seem to think it was either “sinister” or “imposing”, but I thought it was “familiar” because the writer never actually says it was familiar to her. On the contrary, she fiddled with the complicated locks, which shows unfamiliarity. Any response?</p>

<p>@theking101 It was experimental I didn’t have it.</p>

<p>@wigginreader
Ok but what ever implied that it was sinister. That is such a strong word.</p>