March 2012 SAT I Critical Reading Thread

<p>eagles 2 is certainly skepticism. Her tone was leaning towards Neutral negative so it definetly was not outraged</p>

<p>Agreed, neatness was the hardest out of all of them.</p>

<p>I think I remember a 1 or 2:</p>

<p>What did both authors both assume about neatness: (i put they were generally considered virtues)?</p>

<p>Author 1 would feel what about author 2’s theory that people hate being messy because society causes them to feel bad when they arent neat? It was down to reserved and neutral for me, and I believe I put reserved since the theory implies that neatness is not a goal we should strive for, while passage 1 talked about how we waste so much time.</p>

<p>gossamer, at the end of passage 1 doesnt the author admit that being messy makes u faster and more efficient, but he is pressured to be neat by outside forces?
I said with neutrality, because being messy was hard to overcome. That question was hard.</p>

<p>for the chaplin, i’m sure the answer wasnt ‘novel publishes the book by refining it’
it was something like
‘comedian practices over and over again, and never fails to please the audience’</p>

<p>the passage said that he had to work hard, but make sure only the love that he has for the subject shows to the audience</p>

<p>so the comedian practices over again and never fails to please makes more sense</p>

<p>um passage 1 or 2 never said that neatness was a virtue, they both stated how it was extremely difficult to be always neat</p>

<p>for the transition, does anyone know the full answer with the 132 phrase in it?</p>

<p>michael, for that one i picked reserved, because passage 1 never directly mentioned being hard to overcome the challenges of messiness. he just feels pressured because he feels that he could be more productive if he wasnt so messy</p>

<p>I said neutrality. That question sucked.</p>

<p>Also the parenthesis in the space passage. Defining boundaries or providing examples of the local group? I put examples…</p>

<p>I dont think the answer is skeptical because in parentheses the author said something along the lines of, 'My observations would later prove this correct" in reference to Chaplin’s failure…idk i put sadness</p>

<p>I think for the neatness, the author of passage 1 was saying that messiness makes you less efficient, but that there were successful messy people. I also got reservation for one of those questions</p>

<p>Substantiate:Provide evidence to support or prove the truth of.
Champion: Support the cause of; defend.</p>

<p>I think champion fits better. Also, was the lost-kid-in-a-department-store one experimental?</p>

<p>i dont think passage 2 said it was never easy to be neat. passage 2 said neatness was programmed, and considered to be correct. so i think the virtue answer is correct</p>

<p>this kid um it is not the comedian one because charlie practiced without the viewers seeing him, and then when he perfected the scenes he would show it. It was definetly the one that stated fixing the errors multiple times then published it</p>

<p>Cleanness is a virtue. The passage asked what do both authors feel is commmonly understood by people or something like that.</p>

<p>Passage one would say that messiness can actually cause lost time.</p>

<p>The author as CLEARLY skeptical in the Chaplin one since he kept questioning his father’s remarks</p>

<p>michael
The author also talked about the time that messy people lose because of lost papers and stuff. That’s definitely a bad effect of messiness that society has nothing to do with.</p>

<p>No. The analogy question was definitely that a poet goes through many drafts before she publishes an amazing sonnet.</p>

<p>@Madbeast The question wasn’t about what the author was saying, it was about what they assumed to be true. Both authors assumed that generally, people assume that neatness is a virtue. Passage 1 talks about the struggles of messy people who cannot attain that virtue, while Passage 2 criticizes the idea that neatness is a virtue.</p>

<p>it was a poet striving to perfect her sonnet; the audience does not see the work shes goes through, only the finished result</p>

<p>she didn’t say her observations would LATER prove this correct did she? wasn’t it more like as her observations supported?</p>

<p>Definitely reservation.</p>