May SAT CR Thread

<p>acumen may have been on the experimental CR; I distinctly remember it as being #5. </p>

<p>and for the one with the cartoonist. I put ludicrously also, everyone sure it was succinctly?</p>

<p>hi, does anyone know what exactly was the question with ostensibly as an answer choice? Because I remember seeing that word in a question, but not the question with salient as an answer choice? I think that question had “incontrovertibly” in it?</p>

<p>ludicrous means its so stupid that you want to laugh at it. i dont think whoever it was wanted to copy ludicrousness.</p>

<p>Ostensibly was about a book that was ostensibly about birds but actually about human relations. Someone else will remember it more precisely than I do, I’m sure.</p>

<p>yeah norcal it did</p>

<p>ostensibly was about the book about parrots</p>

<p>there was a question with “redouble” as an answer…does anybody remember the question/correct answer?</p>

<p>“2)superhuman computer represents lack of technology to use it as a tool”</p>

<p>I put represents lack of knowledge to use it as a tool - was that a different answer?</p>

<p>so the passage about venice is experimental? can anyone confirm this? it was really difficult =(</p>

<p>For the super computer question what were the other choices?</p>

<p>@chismo: I did not get Venice
@regina: I agree with lack of knowledge</p>

<p>" For the super computer question what were the other choices? "</p>

<ul>
<li>they had to acknowledge their limitations</li>
<li>they had to learn about the phenomenon </li>
</ul>

<p>anybody remember the rest?</p>

<p>i think i did badly on this. how do you guys think the curve will be? i had all the reading at the end, where i was suffering from major testing fatigue… D:</p>

<p>The computer question I can say confidently was to demonstrate the lack of knowledge to use the computer effectively.</p>

<p>This was the comparison passage, wasn’t it? It made sense because he talked about the fact that it came with no manual - they did not have the knowledge to use it - it took haphazard guessing and checking instead.</p>

<p>[and wow, I was stuck between salient and ostensible on parrot vocab… fail]</p>

<p>@vocab ludicrous I put down ludicrous too. Cartoonists want to make people laugh - it fit. I didn’t like succinct because comics aren’t known for their brevity but rather their humor, often ridiculous ones [see political comics?]</p>

<p>Didn’t any of you guys think the lawyer in the Moonstone story was protective?</p>

<p>I agree with Ktk.
The question was to demonstrate the lack of knowledge to use the computer (string theory) effectively.</p>

<p>Ktk - I remember protective too. I put ludicrous too. Although I do think that I bombed the CR section…</p>

<p>did anyone get hidebound for anything???</p>

<p>I put ludicrously as well. Made a ton of sense since cartoons are know for that. Also it was definitely not protective. The way the question was phrased was that HE would have been PROTECTIVE of the lawyer, if anything it would be the other way around. It was definitely the derisive or whatever.</p>

<p>Why was that one vocab word not cataclysmic when describing the state of the room?</p>

<p>I put “protective” too as it was about how the butler was toward the lawyer. Wasn’t he protective in that he didn’t want to reveal anything? It seemed like the logical answer.</p>

<p>Also, I put for the chimps one that it was because they were working together for both one and two, because the author was definitely not implying that humans were BETTER…and she said they looked like a factory and a nunnery. i’m hoping so.</p>

<p>also, i put that the mom was perplexed for the mother-daughter college passage b/c she was confused about when she would actually tell her daughter about it.</p>

<p>yea critical reading is definitely not my forte, but some of these choices seemed a little more into the text than what was just directly stated in it. </p>

<p>Hope I can get some feedback! Anyone else put the same answers?</p>

<p>It is not ludicrously.
The key word is the word “economy” with which cartoonists draw cartoons.
Thus, succinctly fits perfectly.</p>