March 2012 SAT I Critical Reading Thread

<p>Could someone list the other answer choices for the appeal to reason in the Emily passage?</p>

<p>Thanks i put the shift in popular culture too.
For the electoral college question where it asks which does describes both passages, what were some of the other possible questions?<br>
Was the question to the answer battle state ans the question where it also had a choice that had the word faction? Or is that the multiple party question…</p>

<p>I’m not sure if this was for the Emily passage, but there was a question about from lines something to something, they contained all but: and I put solution? or something like that. Can’t really remember.</p>

<p>Also, for “What does passage 2 imply of popular elections: it will make multiple parties and impede progress,” was another answer choice about underqualified candidates? I think I put that for some question, but I can’t remember which.</p>

<p>What does passage 2 imply of popular elections: it will make multiple parties and impede progress</p>

<p>What were the other choices for this one?</p>

<p>@Diatomiclove, I remember putting those two answers too.</p>

<p>I might be the only one who didn’t put “define a boundary” for the parenthetical question. Wasn’t it giving examples? It listed galaxies in the local group, thus giving examples of the local group, not defining the boundary. Thoughts?</p>

<p>And I somehow got “polar” wrong. Yay for getting level 2 SC wrong.</p>

<p>@yankees
I think it was something about fracturing the electorate into factions</p>

<p>I also remembering there being a question that said something like, the check of the electoral college was against? I know the first ans choice had unqualified candidates and another had something with the word faction… I think i put that one.</p>

<p>Yes, the last section had 20 questions.</p>

<p>@impervious maybe that’s the faction one I’m thinking of?</p>

<p>Misteiny1212, i put giving examples too.</p>

<p>@msteiny1212: I put “examples” too because I didn’t think it was really defining a boundary because it had said “the milky way . . . 30 other small galaxies” and it wasn’t really specific on the 30 other galaxies, so it wasn’t defining the boundary. </p>

<p>Yeah does anyone remember the question with unqualified candidates? I know I wasn’t sure about that one. </p>

<p>Also, for the space passage, for the question about the local galaxies or whatever, was the answer that distance between things in our galaxy wont extend (because it got used to gravity or whatever)?</p>

<p>wait are we sure that the being taken to a jungle question is revelatory? i might have put that, i dont really remember, but wasn’t there also something about the experience being frightening or startling? (diff words though)</p>

<p>Wait so was the choice that said factions wrong? I put that :/</p>

<p>What were the other choices for the distance not extending question?</p>

<p>I’m pretty sure it was the factions one - that was explicitly stated in the passage. The “impede progress” is pretty extreme…</p>

<p>what score is 1 skip 3 wrong
or 1 skip 2 wrong</p>

<p>@Diatomiclove the answer for the inference one w/ space extending btw. galaxies was “the distance between planets will remain relatively the same” imo, because they’re part of the galaxy, which won’t really change size.</p>

<p>1 skip 2 wrong could be 800, or if it was less lenient curve, 780-790.
1 skip 3 wrong would be around 760 (average).</p>

<p>Source: <a href=“http://www.erikthered.com/tutor/SAT-Released-Test-Curves.pdf[/url]”>http://www.erikthered.com/tutor/SAT-Released-Test-Curves.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Ok I have read all 44 pages and have still not resolved–in my head–the 2 most debated questions: the chest and the World Series questions.</p>

<p>Almost all of the people who argued that sinister was not mentioned leave out the fact that the word “dark” was used to describe the chest and only look at the part about the tiger talons. If the word “dark” was not used, I probably would have chose sinister as well, but I think dark implies something evil or dangerous. Also, dark was not used in a way to describe color or shade, the chest was dark by the definition “Sullen or threatening” in my opinion.</p>

<p>For the World Series one, I can see an argument for “argue against change.” But overall, Author 1 seemed pretty impartial to me overall and he only advocated that people truly understand the political electoral system and not act to change or not change it. Also, many people used “qualification” by the definition that it means a limitation or moderation, but I saw it as more a “condition that must be complied with.” I saw it as meaning that the sentence set a qualification that a team could win the World Series just by winning the final game without getting the most runs, or that a president can win the election by just winning the majority of states’ votes. Both are sort of qualifications to win.</p>

<p>@Michael for the first one, most people who argue for sinister remind others that the question said “the AUTHOR would most think…” To the author, the chest was not sinister (evil) in any way, but rather just looming (imposing.) It was also familiar, and sort of vital (necessary) because it had all of the clothing in it.</p>

<p>2nd one is a tossup. I really have no idea.</p>