May SAT CR Thread

<p>@candycanes =( same, just hoping i break 600. Who knows, maybe the test makers set the answers to what we put over the ones the majority thinks haha</p>

<p>i’m just making myself believe that until may 20th.</p>

<p>what was the question with belligerent?</p>

<p>May what now?
Aren’t the scores out in 2 weeks? As in, May 15?</p>

<p>Passage-based questions: 43/48</p>

<p>First section: 17/19</p>

<p>Welsh singer
1)her nationality wasn’t her most important characteristic
2)</p>

<p>Mother not telling her daughter she is going to college
1)Attitude towards her situation: Prudent</p>

<h2>2)italized lines were: Likely response from daughter</h2>

<p>Mexican artist (frida Kahlo - flamboyant woman with withering health)

  1. purpose of passage: dispel common misconception?
  2. playing a role allows you to express your inner self
  3. mask and frame question: contradicting purposes
  4. reference to nun: enthusiastic/fervor?
  5. (Yet…artifice): (some options were “a complex incomprehensible masquerade; dramatize own history, alter personality”)???
  6. towards the end of her life she started wearing more to hide her growing frailty / her increasing jewelry or w/e counterbalances her weak health. (I thought this was one question)</p>

<p>Chimpanzee

  1. using log hammers: chimpanzees were cracking nuts
  2. factory - cooperationg in a productive activity
  3. puffery = exaggerated self-regard
  4. humans are overshadowed by technology (I thought this was from chimpanzee passage, not string theory passage)
  5. supposed implied the claim is flawed
  6. language allows individual accomplishments to come together
  7. internal compass: </p>

<h1>9) look in chimpanzee’s eye/raising of hand shows relation between empathy and technology</h1>

<p>Second section: 13/16</p>

<p>Lying

  1. Author 2 thinks the typical behabior mentioned in passage 1 is MISCONCEPTION???
  2. The two sentences are both QUALIFICATION?
    3)</p>

<h2>4)</h2>

<p>Physics string theory

  1. passage 1 positive opinion towards a theory, passage 2 criticizes
  2. author of passage 2 would be in complete agreement
  3. Authors agree that in its current state the string theory is incomplete
  4. superhuman computer represents lack of technology to use it as a tool
  5. passage 2 would say that the mathematicians and physicians should pursue different avenues
  6. passage 1 says reason string theory is hard to prove is because of complexity of mathematics
  7. passage 1 says maybe in near future more results can prove this theory, passage 2 author would most likely say: UNLIKELY TO HAPPEN???
  8. fits and starts was sudden bursts
  9. scope and outcome
  10. science goes in zigzag path: ANSWER???
    11)</p>

<h1>12) draw means infer</h1>

<p>Third section: 13/13</p>

<p>Moonstone (lawyer and butler)</p>

<p>1) lawyer wants: many people offer their narration of the story and together come up with ONE story
2) butler was deferential at lawyer
3) ‘want’ means lack of
4) innocent people were defamed
5) Lawyer does not want the story to be based on SPECULATION and HEARSAY
6) Only repeated meant brevity of interval
7) moment of perplexity
8) “as soon as he turned his back” showed his eagerness
9) Visitor / Lawyer determined the true feeling
10) Robinson Crueso: a warning that butler should have heeded
11) assess carefully before committing
12) cost means personal toll
13) the quote from robert crusoe represented an omen</p>

<p>ive tried my best to remember…at least the questions…so u guys could argue bout the answers…nd ive tried to list them in the most similar order to that in the test…anyways…pls help fill in the remaining 5 questions…</p>

<p>Thanks africanlife.
-Frida Kahlo

  1. purpose of the first paragraph (not the passage): dispel common misconception
    -String theory:
  2. science goes in zigzag path: arbitrary nature of theoretical science, isn’t it ?</p>

<p>For the chimpanzee one, internal compass is something like our ability to care for others (not sure)
And for science goes in a zigzag pattern, i remember the word “indirect” or “indirectly”</p>

<p>P.S. What in the world was the belligerent one? I can’t remember that at all.</p>

<p>I remember one about the arbitrary nature of science, that’s what I put, but no, the zigzag path question’s answer was that science doesn’t often take a clear path and takes many turns or something like that.
And I really doubt it was “cracking nuts”, come on, what’s the question for that anyway?</p>

<p>Oh and “fits” in fits and starts meant “sudden whims” not sudden bursts.</p>

<p>^ jimmy, it was actually sudden bursts. you’re confusing it with “unexpected whims.”</p>

<p>Also, I think I remember that the 1st question about the Welsh singer went along the lines of “to state the self-perception of a singer” or something.</p>

<p>i also put whims but people here were really sure that its BURST…
i wish it was “whims” though…
i don think the zigzag was arbitrary science…but i cant remember that ques at all…
cracking nuts: there was a sentece in the 1st paragraph where the author describes some chimpazees “hammering away” something using “log hammers”…therefore the ans is “using simple tools to crack nuts”…</p>

<p>Hmmm, well the definition of “whim” is an odd or capricious desire. In the passage all it said in the relevant part was that scientists proposed experimental or theoretical hypothesis which were than reviewed upon by people. Nothing suggests that they did it whimsically.</p>

<p>Passage-based questions: 44/48</p>

<p>First section: 18/19</p>

<p>Welsh singer
1)purpose of passage: to state the self-perception of a singer
2)her nationality wasn’t her most important characteristic</p>

<p>Mother not telling her daughter she is going to college
1)Attitude towards her situation: Prudent</p>

<h2>2)italized lines were: Likely response from daughter</h2>

<p>Mexican artist (frida Kahlo - flamboyant woman with withering health)

  1. purpose of 1st sentence: dispel common misconception?
  2. playing a role allows you to express your inner self
  3. mask and frame question: contradicting purposes
  4. reference to nun: enthusiastic/fervor?
  5. (Yet…artifice): (some options were “a complex incomprehensible masquerade; dramatize own history, alter personality”)???
  6. towards the end of her life she started wearing more to hide her growing frailty / her increasing jewelry or w/e counterbalances her weak health. (I thought this was one question)</p>

<p>Chimpanzee

  1. using log hammers: chimpanzees were cracking nuts
  2. factory - cooperationg in a productive activity
  3. puffery = exaggerated self-regard
  4. humans are overshadowed by technology (I thought this was from chimpanzee passage, not string theory passage)
  5. supposed implied the claim is flawed
  6. language allows individual accomplishments to come together
  7. internal compass:
  8. look in chimpanzee’s eye/raising of hand shows relation between empathy and technology
    ================================================== =============================</p>

<p>Second section: 13/16</p>

<p>Lying

  1. Author 2 thinks the typical behabior mentioned in passage 1 is MISCONCEPTION???
  2. The two sentences are both QUALIFICATION?
    3)</p>

<h2>4)</h2>

<p>Physics string theory

  1. passage 1 positive opinion towards a theory, passage 2 criticizes
  2. author of passage 2 would be in complete agreement
  3. Authors agree that in its current state the string theory is incomplete
  4. superhuman computer represents lack of technology to use it as a tool
  5. passage 2 would say that the mathematicians and physicians should pursue different avenues
  6. passage 1 says reason string theory is hard to prove is because of complexity of mathematics
  7. passage 1 says maybe in near future more results can prove this theory, passage 2 author would most likely say: UNLIKELY TO HAPPEN???
  8. fits and starts was sudden bursts
  9. scope and outcome
  10. science goes in zigzag path: ANSWER???
  11. draw means infer
    ================================================== =</p>

<p>Third section: 13/13</p>

<p>Moonstone (lawyer and butler)</p>

<p>1) lawyer wants: many people offer their narration of the story and together come up with ONE story
2) butler was deferential at lawyer
3) ‘want’ means lack of
4) innocent people were defamed
5) Lawyer does not want the story to be based on SPECULATION and HEARSAY
6) Only repeated meant brevity of interval
7) moment of perplexity
8) “as soon as he turned his back” showed his eagerness
9) Visitor / Lawyer determined the true feeling
10) Robinson Crueso: a warning that butler should have heeded
11) assess carefully before committing
12) cost means personal toll
13) the quote from robert crusoe represented an omen </p>

<p>KEEP ON ADDING PLS…WE JUST HAVE 4 MORE TO GO…</p>

<p>what happened to sentence completition?</p>

<p>@mathstarftw
Perhaps. But “fits and starts” - I seem to remember the passage implying how scientists start their work or something like that. At any rate I’m pretty sure I circled that answer, then omitted the others to be sure. I’m not completely confident but it seemed pretty solid at the time.</p>

<p>Obviously NONE of us know for sure, but I can see how both choices would work. Damn you collegeboard.</p>

<p>And yah, are we done with sentence completion or something? Because that just seemed to have disappeared.</p>

<p>sry…i really cant the sentence completion ans…u can refer to previous pages…i think around p50…there were some…</p>

<p>I put A, which I don’t remember(something like misguided stereotype), instead of C, which was misconception that is insignificant.</p>

<p>Passage 1 describes the common behavior of lying and passage 2 “somethings” it
it was something like that…</p>

<p>and to matthew I agree with you
I put whim, because in that paragraph that the question referred to, a couple lines down, it said the process is like a zigzag, which is closer to whim than a sudden burst.</p>

<p>I don’t mean to be a huge downer, but this just doesn’t help much. Unless you remember all the questions no one’s going to know if they got them right/wrong so like, we REALLY need the full questions or it’s not completely helpful.
And I can’t for the life of me remember where belligerent was. I don’t even think I noticed it. At all. What was the sentence for it? =/</p>

<p>Okay, I can help a bit with the sentence completions. There was one section where I was positive of all of them - the one with 5 sentence completions (unfortunately for me, it wasn’t the one with 8). Can’t remember the first 2, but who cares about those.</p>

<p>3- -something - nominal
4- interdisciplinary (X is a “blank” science, it takes from astronomy and biology and etc) or something like that
5- reticent. Unfortunately, I can’t remember the Q.</p>

<p>You probably already had these but just thought I’d pitch in.</p>