March 2012 SAT I Critical Reading Thread

<p>Implacable was the answer to the one about Hera’s hatred for the something.</p>

<p>drac
I thought about that as well, but I put evenhanded since the paragraph was like a concession. He didn’t just talk about his argument, like the second writer, but actually had a fair view for the opposite side. </p>

<p>msteiny - yes and yes</p>

<p>Teacher was definitely peremptory = dictatorial, commanding.
I also put sinister and ambivalent for answers.</p>

<p>i dont think it was cavelier or polemical</p>

<p>i had evenheaded or evenhanded whatever the word was</p>

<p>@Niceboat</p>

<p>Yes I know, I put that as well.</p>

<p>I was responding to yankeesfanatic who wanted to know other choices and what the question was about.</p>

<p>Darn, what that asking about passage one’s final paragraph or passage two’s?</p>

<p>Was polemical in the question with evenhanded? Because I really thought that evenhanded was the answer</p>

<p>@steiny</p>

<p>Was the question asking about passage two in relation to passage one, or the other way around?</p>

<p>@drac313
Pretty sure it was asking about one in relation to two.</p>

<p>Damn I failed this CR lol.</p>

<p>If it was 2in relation to 1, then it is cavalier, the other way around is evenhanded. I got that one wrong!</p>

<p>It was essentially asking to describe passage 1 in relation to passage 2. Passage one spoke of how the critics need to have solutions to the electoral college. Passage 2 talked about the rules of baseball. Honestly it was very vague and will be debated for the next few weeks…</p>

<p>So one missed vocab q, still 800?</p>

<p>@stein</p>

<p>It was definitely evenhanded, as a third party that read the question wrong and got it wrong, I believe it is evenhanded. The author CLEARLY was like I agree with the objections to the system, but these guys better develop a clear alternative to be viable(evenhanded). The second author was saying that only people who know nothing about the system hate it(cavalier)</p>

<p>The one about the chinese girl’s chest, I wrote vital. When did she ever state that the chest was vital, that she desparately needed that chest to understand her chinese identity or whatever?</p>

<p>It said the chest was dark and had tiger talons or something so it seemed pretty imposing and sinister to me.</p>

<p>what was the question about lines 54-56 where the grandma was talking about the differences between chinese and american culture the old and bad. What was her view?</p>

<p>I thought the dresser question was NOT vital. I thought that it did describe it as sinister (dark).</p>

<p>Anyone else agree? No one else described this answer choice so I thought I would throw it out there.</p>

<p>i had sinister, but it seems to be split among the 2 so we’ll see</p>

<p>@Zeruel95
Yes, I believe that the CR scale is usually lenient enough to miss 2 and still get an 800?</p>

<p>@michael
She said specifically the world was in there: all of the things from china etc…the only thing she did not mention was anything regal IMO. She said it was dark and looming and caught attention with its grandiose nature(sinister and imposing).</p>

<p>@madbeast
The understanding of the life about her or something like that</p>

<p>^same.</p>

<p>I’m pretty sure the chest was definitely imposing. I was stuck between sinister and vital, but vital didn’t seem to have any support in the passage</p>