March 2012 SAT I Critical Reading Thread

<p>SC:</p>

<p>Culled…truncated
peremptory
controversial
anomalous
scavenging
implacable
deliberate…work
precipitate…confluence
derisive…characterization
penchant for … enmity
beguiled…havoc
polar
jovial
mimcry … fashion
finite
fortuitous</p>

<p>*3 are missing. can anyone find the remaining.</p>

<p>** NOTE: THESE ARE NOT IN ORDER</p>

<p>for the passage on neatness, did anyone else say that both authors agreed it was a virtue?
there were several questions from that section that tripped me up.</p>

<p>did anyone realize theres only 23 questions in one of the 25min non-experimental reading sections o.o
and does anyone remember a question from the space passage something about two palnets floating apart slower . mean the universe is moving slower ? was that the answer</p>

<p>Can someone give me more answer choices on the unrealistic expectations question</p>

<p>Satcrazyguy - I remember WELCOMED … DIMINISHED</p>

<p>I put SINISTER but still wondering if the answer was VITAL.</p>

<p>World Series Question: isn’t the answer to support an undertaking since right after the author talks about how if people were knowledgeable in the electoral collage system they’d understand it? </p>

<p>Sci Fi: wasn’t one of the answers that America had calculated correctly where it would be technology wise thus pulling americans more towards the fantasy section?</p>

<p>@dream
I think that one was argue against a change. He talked about the world series to show to critics how change isn’t needed and things that are seemingly flawed are fine in the end. There was a whole discussion about this earlier in the thread…</p>

<p>Sci Fi: One of the answers was “an unbelievable goal” or something like that when it asked about what vision represented. The other answer was “to explain a shift in thought of popular culture”</p>

<p>I feel like for something in the electoral college passage I put “demonstrate workable alternatives”…I don’t know if that was in the rigorously analyze question</p>

<p>@drac for the sci fi one I put “unrealistic expectations”. wasnt the question asking for what the ppl said they were basing the vision off of?</p>

<p>@monepo</p>

<p>Yes, I just didn’t know the exact words of that answer, but yes, that was the question, and unrealistic expectations is the answer,</p>

<p>@steiny</p>

<p>I think you are talking about the analyze one. The answer choice read something like the critics should rigorously analyze the faults in their alternatives. Or something of that nature</p>

<p>Wait does anyone remember the full question for the sentence completion with the answer “jovial”. I don’t remember that one… Could it possibly be experimental?</p>

<p>@chillbro yeah jovial was one of the real ones.</p>

<p>Do you perhaps remember the question…?</p>

<p>Guys quick question…for the baseball one i put “explains a dilemma” cause it was showing how a team could win the world series without scoring the most runs (the situation to me feels like a dilemma) and by using the baseball example the author also explained the dilemma of the electoral college and stuff…any cance i got this correct?</p>

<p>Wait so was any of the answers “something with faction”? For the electoral college passage…</p>

<p>Total: 51
SC</p>

<p>deliberate…work
peremptory
Implacable
Anomalous
writin is fightin controversy
precipitate…confluence.
penchant for…enmity
beguiled…havoc
characterization…derisive
polar
jovial
culled…truncated
scavenger
mimicry…fashion
finite</p>

<p>So far: 15</p>

<p>Electoral College</p>

<p>Both authors agree that electorate system: electoral college impacts campaign strategy
The last paragraph of passage 1 was: evenhanded
Which describes both: Passage 1 criticizes a system which passage 2 regards a misconception.
What does author of passage one think about the critics argument in passage 2: he thought they should present good solutions.
The reformers think the baseball analogy would be: flawed
***What was the purpose of the analogy in passage 2: undertaking or qualification or change
What does back most nearly mean: champion
What do the reformers think of the electorate college: believe that it will not represent the majority since candidates go for battleground states
What does passage 2 imply of popular elections: it will make multiple parties and impede progress
Accident most nearly means: circumstances</p>

<p>So far: 25</p>

<p>Chinese</p>

<p>intergenerational connection
sinister
the rice thing shows the aunt’s attention to detail
the comment about heritage shows the aunt thinks about the world around her
Her appearance
the author considered the aunt to be an influence on her personality
acute most nearly means severe
the author does not fully identify with any culture</p>

<p>So far: 33</p>

<p>Chaplin</p>

<p>Skeptical
Process and outcome
Transition: the 132 part
Poet polishes flawless sonnet multiple times
Perfectionist
Resurfaced = came to mind</p>

<p>So far: 39 </p>

<p>Neatness</p>

<p>Considered virtues
passage 1 would say about the explanations for anxiety offered in passage 2 that messiness acutally does cause loss of time</p>

<p>So far: 41</p>

<p>Space Passage</p>

<p>The author mainly uses: analoiges
the 2 space shuttles is to fix a possible misconception
the part about skin is to fix a misconception
the jungle analogy suggests that the outer reaches of space are impossible to imagine
the parantheses defines a boundary
being spirited into jungle would be considered revelatory
the final paragraph reiterates a point</p>

<p>So far: 48 </p>

<p>Sci-Fi</p>

<p>Unrealistic expectation
Shift in popular culture</p>

<p>Girl Identifying with her sister:
amplified the preceding statement</p>

<p>TOTAL: 51</p>

<p>I mean, what that the answer?</p>

<p>Why was the answer not the fracturing it into factions…or smthing</p>

<p>@Imperviouss I’m trying to find someone else who remembers that as a choice…there was a guy a few pages back. Anyone else?</p>

<p>“the 2 space shuttles is to fix a possible misconception”…why can’t it be the underscore a science paradox?</p>

<p>@Imperviouss I put that as an answer too…</p>