March 2012 SAT I Critical Reading Thread

<p>@novelidea
Yes, I think the answer was anomalous</p>

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<p>I put down skeptical for the chaplin one, though I wasn’t sure</p>

<p>wouldn’t the aunt be experimental since she was trying to see if the narrator and her mother could make new recipes? she wanted to try out how well they could make them</p>

<p>@cjr605 i never said it was royal i was proving to the other person that the chest was royal thus his answer was wrong read the threads before before commenting please</p>

<p>MadBeast, I wrore that she wanted to make her daughter understood and honor Chinese traditions. Little shaky on that though.</p>

<p>Did u guys write that the grandma was attentive to detail regarding the rice food thing?</p>

<p>we answered that question already michael</p>

<p>for the one where the soup stone was “robbed of light” it would mean that the stone was fragile right? and “hard” was describing the light to be intense (same passage)?</p>

<p>i put outraged for the chaplin one, how is it skeptical?</p>

<p>Attentive to detail is right. She watched carefully and in the next couple lines it described how methodical she was in making them.</p>

<p>Also did anyone get “amplified the preceding statement” for an answer to a short passage?</p>

<p>Overall, I thought that was a manageable CR section - some were harder than the Blue Book, some were easier…</p>

<p>But the Writing section - LOL, they were so much easier! I hated the essay though…</p>

<p>was section 7 experimental? because i had section 6 for critical reading and section for reading too. so i didn’t take section 7 seriously. i forgot what the passages were on though :(</p>

<p>That cabinent question was terrible, tbh. You could really infer that all of them make sense.</p>

<p>Familiar-parents home
Regal-held court, bronze bolts or something
Vital-described like a tiger?
Sinister-tiger is clawing the floor
imposing-dark and gleaming, grandiose perhaps</p>

<p>bad question.</p>

<p>because he didn’t know whether or not his dad was being honest</p>

<p>@futuredoctor</p>

<p>and she said it was vital be saying that in it contained the world, sounds fairly vital to me. You could argue any of them IMO. I think they might make -3 800 just cuz of that question.</p>

<p>-2 so far with one omit, still a slight chance for an 800, but I would be fine with anything 750+</p>

<p>@mrsteiny</p>

<p>Yeah I got amplified</p>

<p>msteiny, i did not get that it “amplified the preceding statement”.
if i am remembering correctly, i think that was the one with the girl connecting to the older sister…</p>

<p>and i believe the answer to that was that it introduced a narrative voice.</p>

<p>anybody who took jan 28 and march 10 sat? which did you guys think was easier/harder/same in terms of overall difficulty in each of the sections - math, reading, writing?</p>

<p>*msteiny Yea I got amplified. It was that or “implications of a theory”, but that was too heavy for the statement.</p>

<p>@LaPrincesa
Reading - a little easier
Math - def harder
Writing - a little easier</p>

<p>how did it amplify the statement… that was the first sentence</p>

<p>Im pretty sure it introduced a narrative voice…</p>

<p>but regal really means royal or magnificent and “holding court” and bronze bolts don’t sound all that regal to me</p>

<p>@tjhssKid21 The narrative voiced was already introduced in the first statement because it already had “I”, meaning we knew who was telling the story.</p>