MARCH 2013 SAT CR Discussion

<p>…anarchists? Can you clarify?</p>

<p>^pretty sure it was superficial.</p>

<p>it was an early sentence completion that was like “the philosopher was an anarchist who ___ people who claimed authority over others”</p>

<p>and what was the question with sanguine i dont remember having that as an answer</p>

<p>It was redress…palliative</p>

<p>And I did the same thing on the sanguine question. Bummmerr :/</p>

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<p>Might have been experimental.</p>

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<p>Sanguine…resilience, people remaining confident in nature’s resilience despite recent extinctions.</p>

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<p>What did you guys put in the “what is the author’s taste in music analogous to” question? In put a person trying different menu entries depending on his mood, but some people are saying it was the shopping answer.</p>

<p>I put menu based on mood RMI</p>

<p>^but some posters say that the author never really mentioned mood at all…</p>

<p>I remember him doing so.</p>

<p>thought it might be easier for other people if we compile a list of answers</p>

<p>Vocab:
sanguine resilience
redress palliate
facsimile credible</p>

<p>classical music:
the unconverted - culturally literate people
second passage - undermines?? provides different perspective? varying opinions on this one
tv networks and orchestras - supports
Both passages focus on -> the way that classical music is regarded?
How do passages differ -> Passage 2 supplies different perspective
“Signs” -> indications
Passage 1 reacts to first line in passage 2 -> non-judgmental way of categorization?
Passage 2 -> Provides different opinion (nothing explicitly stated in passage 2 bashes passage 1)
Who is most like the unconverted? -> culturally literate
What do listings in magazines show? -> unfortunate dichotomy
Elite -> pretentious
hold TV Orchestras -> support
Quote in Passage 2 -> shows a specific opinion/attitude about the topic</p>

<p>Cairo</p>

<p>Purpose of Passage -> Formative Period
Salt in Water -> Effortless Activity
Teachers saw him as a prodigy because of -> Extraordinary Intellect
Action of the headmaster -> specific instance of general pattern
He felt -> Sense of Entitlement
Mother viewed Son -> Autonomy
Aftereffect -> melancholy
Last paragraph describes him as -> Nomadic</p>

<p>Apollo 8</p>

<p>Purpose of passage -> describe experience
Picture time? -> diligent by inflexible
The spaceship was a tank -> provide a sense of the challenge
Anders initially felt - disoriented
Final Paragraph -> unrealistic expectations
craters and hills -> support a generalization</p>

<p>Grandma
Grandma -> eccentric
Chrysanthemums and tea -> preferable to ice skating</p>

<p>Culture
primary purpose -> cultural identities not preestablished
quotation marks -> question the legitimacy of terms</p>

<p>the Merian caterpillar article:
casual glance -> superficial?
last paragraph -> problematic</p>

<p>how hard did you guys think CR was, personally first two with Cairo passage and bug person wasn’t too bad, but classical music one i thought was kinda bad.</p>

<p>I dont think it was problematic. I put comprehensive.</p>

<p>Does anyone remember the SC talking about scientists and their subtle prejudices? I’m not sure if I got that right.</p>

<p>@ tommyfresh, i think i put objective and smth else.
@IwillKILLforMIT- pretty sure whole situation for her was problematic. couldn’t apply same techniques.</p>

<p>I still believe that question’s answer is comprehensive. Although the passage stated that the scientist was having problems in the environment, in the last paragraph, it stated specifically that even though the scientist was able to understand nature in Amsterdam, all the questions were cracked open again when she went into the jungle. This shows that the jungle was more comprehensive, thus resulting in more questions about nature, than Amsterdam.</p>

<p>I’d also like to point out how it emphasized that many aspects of the jungle would not be discovered until much later, which still points out that a lot of the jungle’s information was far from reach for the scientist. Still problematic, yes. But it’s problematic BECAUSE it’s comprehensive compared to taking a bunch of caterpillars and cultivating them.</p>

<p>@bioguy22 I think I put something with impartial and reliable. Is that wrong?</p>

<p>For the salt melting in water, wasnt the answer an eye opening experience?</p>

<p>@tommyfresh, yea sorry i think it was that, im confusing the answer choices, but that seems apt to say, it seems familiar, “impartial” and reliable</p>

<p>Yeah I put comprehensive too. And i’m pretty confident in my answer. </p>

<p>Also, for the apollo passage

  • i put that it showed the observation platform had to be improved
  • said that the rolling hills and craters quote was a brief digression</p>

<p>Think i got like 2 vocabs wrong too.
CR was definitely harder. I usually do better :(</p>

<p>Can anyone tell me what 4 wrong and 2 omitted would be? :/</p>

<p>redress palliative
stilted…affectation</p>

<p>@satanonymous i put problematic, cause at the intro she was saying how she couldn’t apply same techniques and even at the end, she’s like of suriname poses so much more of a challenge than amsterdam or whatever. and 4 wrong with 2 omitted would be most likely sub 700 i think cause technically that’s -7 raw points, prob 690ish-710ish is a good range, but hopefully the curve is lenient :3</p>

<p>Ugh I hope so. I’m aiming for at least a 2100 as this was my first real sat. </p>

<p>I didn’t get to 3 of the hard problems in math but there were none of the questions i answered that i had doubts about. So my math is looking pretty strong.
If i had 2 write-in math sections, does that make one experimental?</p>