March 2012 SAT I Critical Reading Thread

<p>Could someone please answer my question?</p>

<p>Was the sentence completion question # 8 with answer choices personification and caricature in the experimental section?</p>

<p>Thanks again!</p>

<p>@Groudhugga I believe it was the one with “in context, what does the world series example do for the passage”</p>

<p>I put argue against change (from the system).</p>

<p>Yeah good point. You’ll probably get that one right, I’m just tight because it never said that it was “familiar”. I thought maybe the claws made it sinister.</p>

<p>Actually can someone explain what an experimental section is? I don’t know the implications of having one or what it means.</p>

<p>@chillbro yeah i think it was in the experimental section.</p>

<p>Can someone explain the question that included debilitating, disheartening, revelatory, etc.?</p>

<p>@wiggen</p>

<p>One of my previous post</p>

<p>It’s the section that not everyone got and the section that doesn’t count. It’s used by collegeboard to test new types of questions. The only way to know which section is experimental is to find out which questions you got but others didn’t. But when you’re taking the test, there’s no way so you have to do your best on all of them.</p>

<p>@twp111</p>

<p>It asked about the scene involving running through the jungles. Revelatory was the answer.</p>

<p>yeah it said that if you were “spirited into the jungle” it would be what kind of an experience (something like that at least), and it would be “revelatory” because it would “reveal” to you what the outside world (i.e. “outerspace”) is like.</p>

<p>I’m not sure whether this was established already, but I had:</p>

<p>chinese-american girl, space(dark matter), electoral college, and chaplin.</p>

<p>Which one was experimental? Or were two of these in the same section…?</p>

<p>How did the Chinese girl regard her aunt? You guys remember that question? It was either an answer talking about her personality or just the way she dressed.</p>

<p>let’s compile the answers. I will start with the sentence completions (PLEASE AdD!!!)</p>

<p>1) polar
2) beguile…havoc
3) peremptory
4) penchant…(?)
5) analogous
6) derisive…(?)
7) jovial
8) culled…truncated
9) scavenger
10) deliberate…work</p>

<p>@gazoz918</p>

<p>was it the one about how she viewed her aunt vs. how her cousins/family viewed her?</p>

<p>@novelidea: I got every single one of those. :slight_smile: </p>

<p>also, one of them was “controversy” - the about “Writin’ is Fightin’” that said the author “stirring ____ with his pen”.</p>

<p>@novelidea</p>

<p>i’m pretty sure (4) is penchant/enmity</p>

<p>oooh! @anonymousA- for that one, I said that she respects her, even though she might be an embarrassment to her family.</p>

<p>Someone pleeeeasee confirm that!</p>

<p>@forsworn99</p>

<p>That’s what I put! I eliminated all the other ones…but I still felt that “embarrassment” might have been too strong of a word? Idk.</p>

<p>Argue against change anyone</p>

<p>@forsworn99</p>

<p>Thats what i put too. almost 100% sure thats right</p>

<p>Did everyone get like 3 straight A’s and then like 3 straight D’s on the chinese passage.</p>

<p>@ FutureDoctor12</p>

<p>Thats what I put. tho thinking back im not sure if its right. I mean was the purpose of that specific passage to argue against change? some of the otehr choices looked enticing too</p>

<p>So is it 100% confirmed that the sentence completion with choices caricature and personification was an experimental section? I’m really on the edge about that one.</p>

<p>Sorry for my persistent questioning lol.</p>