<p>There were two completely different versions of today’s SAT. This thread for students who had the Paired Passage about the Brain and the Hexagon on the math.</p>
<p>I definitely had three grammar sections so all of my Critical Readings and Math counted. To help get things started here are some Critical Reading passages and questions:</p>
<li>Mexican Girl named Marta who asked for her father’s permission to go to college.
. Resignation when he talked with the fisherman</li>
<li>Mini-Pair on advertising on the internet versus advertising on TV</li>
<li>One Paragraph about the writing of Chesnutt</li>
<li>One Paragraph about what is natural</li>
<li>Passage about the architecture of a museum
. Crass was the answer to one of the questions</li>
<li>Passage about the adversarial nature of US justice system</li>
<li>Paired Passage about the nature of the human brain
. Did “take” = collect?
. Where the two authors rational and reassuring? </li>
</ol>
<p>Sentence Completions
Guy on the cover of Time Magazine was RECOGNIZED for his GROUNDBREAKING work.
Guy mistook a woman for a man and was thus ERRONEOUS</p>
<p>1) reisgnation yes
5) yes i put crass too
7) i put outlook because it said like take on the subject
and i wasnt sure on wat the authors were but i didnt put rational and reassuring
1) yea
2) yea</p>
<p>haha thanks for this thread also...ill just go with this one since the title is cooler.
Maybe we can keep adding to this post, with each addition/change bolded (do ctrl-B and put your text within the two **s)</p>
<p>Critical Reading
1. Mexican Girl Marta who asked for her father's permission to go to HS.
. Resignation when he talked with the fisherman
. Dumbfounded when fisherman is consulted on something so important
. father is sociable-reserved...i personally put confident-overbearing since it seemed like he was very stiff/rude etc.. oh well maybe someone else agrees with me? lol
. Final sentence makes story significant by showing Marta fulfilled her promise
. Earnest when asking father initially to go to school</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Mini-Pair on advertising on the internet versus advertising on TV
. second passage shows people avoiding ads
. passage 1 would learn from passage 2 by placing internet ads on popular websites</p></li>
<li><p>One Paragraph about the writing of Chesnutt
. The metaphor on woodcutting shows his writing was deep/penetrating
. The comments are reactions by his contemporaries.</p></li>
<li><p>One Paragraph about what is natural
. Purpose is to dispel a misconception
. Colloquial statement "Vaccine ain't" = to back up assertion</p></li>
<li><p>Passage about the architecture of a museum
. Crass social consumerism or something like that = theme park
. Competition makes museums do things they arent suited for
. Building's foundation = the spirit
. "circumstantial requirements" = Legal height of building
. Center of museum = the art on display
. List of places in museum = to show museum's many facets
. Taking old, unrecognized works and dispalying them is not what the author perceives most museums to be doing
. Ornate museum would be a put-off to society
. Museum = civic = responsibility to society (unlike private)</p></li>
<li><p>Passage about the adversarial nature of US justice system
. European courts = dont fabricate evidence
. Critic said that people would lose confidence in societal institutions
. Claim = assertion</p></li>
<li><p>Paired Passage about the nature of the human brain
. Take = outlook (a modern outlook)
. Two authors were both something like "tempting but not correct"
. Ending sentences = cautionary v. stirring
. Descrates dignified --> created OR added philosophy to???</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Sentence Completions
1. Guy on the cover of Time Magazine was RECOGNIZED for his GROUNDBREAKING work.
2. Guy mistook a woman for a man and was thus ERRONEOUS 3. Indefatigable = SLEEP 4. Nothing affects her = PLACID 5. Verve = PANACHE 6. Art = EPITOME 7. Teachers/students = COMMENDABLE/EXEMPLARY i think those were the choices 8. Blood pressure = DISRUPT/MINIMIZE (or maybe some synonym of disrupt)</p>
<p>Someone post more writing questions lol
Writing
. Were we to change = correct
. Diction error = insure --- assure
TWO NO ERRORS?</p>
<p>Math
. Honeycomb = equilateral triangle...sure it was a hexagon, but not regular
. Upside down parabolas --- c = -17
. Constant of 5 sequence (1243) 28th digit = 3
. 50th day after sunday = Monday lolololoollo
. Sum of x + y +z = 13/6 of x
. Average of the 30 numbers = 9.1
. Antifreeze = 40% graph interp lol
. ABCD with rectangle and two congruent triangles = area of 25
. Length of rectangle with length 3x and width x in yards = 105
. Segment tangent to circle --- area = 1/8 of circle
. Three parallel lines, the fifth can make = ZERO triangles
. Most common price = $4.50
. 5% tax --> cost $2000 originally
. Root 153 was distance between intercepts</p>
<p>GREAT JOB ECHELON32!! You really have a fantastic memory.</p>
<p>I agree with all of your answers except one. IMO the Mexican father was SOCIABLE in the country and RESERVED in town.
Do you remember the answer to one of the last questions on the Brain passages that asked something about what both authors would agree with. I remember putting an answer with two words both of which began with R - maybe rational and reassuring??</p>
<p>Here is another SC:</p>
<p>APOCRYPHAL because the writing was of dubious authenticity or something like that.
Person's temperament changed from EFFUSIVE to RETICENCE</p>
<p>I agree with your SC's Triwizard
And I also agree with the sociable-reserved, only I didn't put that :/
To make overbearing work you have to infer things that arent there about his persona, like some kind of feeling of superiority over the city folk...so ya its sociable-reserved.</p>
<p>The very last question of the Brain = What would both authors view dualism as?
I don't think they would view it as rational in any way, or at least Passage 2 would go against that most strongly, since rationally, science has disproven it. I thought it was the tempting one - a lot of people believe it because they like to (the whole superiority thing in Passage 2) but there are flaws with dualism.</p>
<p>There was another answer choice that I put, it was an a- word I believe, that meant tempting.<br>
It's not novel, because just like people said dignifying was descartes merely adding to a long-held belief, dualism has been here forever. It's not really new.
But the second portion of my answer was basically a synonym to impractical</p>
<p>i dont think so. the question said perimeter was 840 YARDS, and they never change units on SAT without like putting them in CAPITALs or underlining... and I didn't see any of that.</p>
<p>Effusive and reticence? I don't remember that SC question. Anyone care to refreshen my memory?</p>
<p>Also, with the mexican girl question. I didn't put that she was dumbfounded that the fisherman was asked to be consulted on such an important matter, but i put that she feared the fisherman would look down upon her proposal or something like that, but i dont know.</p>
<p>But in regards to that math question, I remember putting down 315. i'm 99.9% sure that one is correct. X was equal to 105. and the question asked for the length, which was 3x. so the length was 315 yards. and yes, the question did ask for yards.</p>