<p>i had the one with animal play
if that was the one which included the “quixotic” question for vocab, then yes, i am 99% positive it was experimental</p>
<p>Animal play was also mentioned in the whales passage, if there’s any chance you’re confusing it with that.</p>
<p>i had the animal play one, it wasn’t the one with quixotic unless i totally missed seeing it. i tripped up on one or two vocab questions, definitely missed one. missed the stupid river one too, i was really hoping for an 800 in reading and writing to counter my awful math score… ):</p>
<p>@gsfan01: Thank God… you couldn’t imagine how happy I am now :)</p>
<p>@gotham11: Is it animal play in dolphins or whales? The whales are supposedly real, idk about the animal play</p>
<p>im sorry, but what was the question about the “bursts and sparks” again?
i remember people saying “effort was put into it” but i put “science seems magical” because it was like, “although there have been many bursts and sparks, science has hardly made any progress on blah blah blah”
so i thought it seemed really cool and flashy, like magic, but it wasn’t really anything</p>
<p>^ The quixotic one should be exp. I had WR exp, and I didn’t meet up with the word quixotic whatsoever.</p>
<p>Somebody post a consolidated list already…</p>
<p>this score anxiety might kill me before the 2-3 weeks waiting time is up…</p>
<p>gsfan01: Maybe that was the wrong word to use there, but compared to the other two answers, it is extreme. There has to be some type of acceptance or agreement in there somewhere, because the author of passage 1 would definitely agree that the emotional power of the cave paintings is important. The question is whether he would agree that this aspect is more important than the identity of the people who painted them. It has to do with the relative importance of these two aspects in the first author’s eyes.</p>
<p>I think the question was “what does the author mean by ‘bursts and sparks’.” I remember thinking magic didn’t fit in the context and was pretty confident about effort as the answer.</p>
<p>@Gitsan: I’m like 99.99% sure it is “effort put in it”, since the relationship then becomes logical: even if they tried hard, the progress is not noticeable. Magical science is just ehhh, a little bit too abstract for my liking.</p>
<p>@caperi
could you explain that to me?</p>
<p>I think math was easy (max 4 wrong) and writing was pretty easy too (max 4 wrong). I may have gotten 4-9 CR wrong - what would be the lowest score I could receive? I will be so glad if I get a 2180+ because I got a 2050 on my practice test. Is a 2180+ good enough for Stanford to overlook?</p>
<p>Smokes and sparks was effort or something along those lines, because it was proved futile.</p>
<p>LIST:</p>
<p>Vocabulary</p>
<ul>
<li>Corrupt minister: Castigated/Misconduct</li>
<li>Sentimentality: Mawkishness</li>
<li>Business: Difficulty/Limitations? (Anyone remember this vocab question?)</li>
<li>Boy, youthful energy etc: Obstreperous</li>
<li>Synthesize/Divergent</li>
<li>Imperturbable/Ruffled</li>
<li>Austerity/Curtail (vs. Profligacy/Truncate)</li>
<li>Meditation</li>
<li>Infectious</li>
<li>Succinct</li>
<li>Small/Functional (vs. Complex/Break)</li>
<li>Empathy</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<p>Minipassages</p>
<p>Jazz Passage
- Jazz education is hard to measure/Value of Jazz is difficult to assess vs. learning Jazz is a strenuous activity
- Distinctive (vs. personal creativity)</p>
<p>Video Games passage (2 passages)
- Video games can transform players
- 1st passage analyzed a topic and 2nd passage said it was harmful
- Form means type</p>
<p>Ocean Passage
- Sentence was for transition
- Investigating a crime scene</p>
<hr>
<p>Big passages</p>
<p>Whales Passage
- Using similes and metaphors in writing
- Bursts and smokes meant scientists put in much effort already
- Mentioned all EXCEPT motivation to study whales
- Speed/pace of activity
- Appreciation of limitations vs. Disadvantages and advantages
- Offer a likely way of thinking
- What a whale might be doing may not seem like anything at first (something of that nature)…</p>
<p>Time/space Passage
- Blur between day and night
- Evening schools (vs. lunch hour)
- Imagery described contrast between day and night
- Have the reader view human history visually
- Available space and usable time (something like that)</p>
<p>Black Concert
- Bears: proceeds
- Dancing high schooler: exuberant (vs. aggressive vs. perplexing?)
- Cherry blossoms: wild
- Crowd of people: unrelenting force
- Great migration: belonging
- Waiting for lifetimes: generations
- Bear most nearly means: proceed
- The panorama of the city: idealized
- Crowd changing: color
- Endless ground : inclusiveness of society
- Reference to baby kicking: Novelty of a development</p>
<p>Cave Paintings Passage
- Credibility
- Aesthetic power
- Beauty is eternal: reverent
- Playfully careless?
- Frustrated vs. Sympathetic (vs. delighted)
- General agreement? (vs. mild skepticism vs. cautious acceptance)</p>
<p>no, it was a passage solely on the purpose of animal play (like whether it has a purpose or not…) i thought that the passage on the vocab was unusually hard. i also had the whale, cave painting and concert one so I am assuming that it was the experimental…</p>
<p>Gotham - I’m vaguely remembering something like that (and I had writing experimental)…Weird. I don’t remember which, but there was a section where I did find an unusual amount of tough vocab.</p>
<p>^ For the vocab: austerity/curtail and small/functional should be correct. And I can’t believe I missed “meditation” !! Does anyone remember the q for that one?</p>
<p>idkk, the imagery of bursts and sparks just doesnt didnt seem like it jived with effort…
and i dont think its frustration, neither guthrie nor the author of passage 2 ever took a tone of frustration…</p>
<p>The passages didn’t disagree with each other… If anything they agreed. The second passage was very objective in the beginning with the recount of the anthropologist guy. It then became more personal talking about how the paintings evoked emotion which is very similar to passage one.</p>
<p>What is the general consensus on the frustrated/sympathetic one? I need some closure</p>