November 2009 CRITICAL READING Discussion

<p>The authoritative regime gave more rights to the “adversaries” of the opposite party, but they were still not “inclined” to participate politically. </p>

<p>No_audio your ignoring the point that is being made. There’s no logic behind the idea that the authoritative regime would give more rights to elites of the opposing party. An Authoritative regime would not give any rights to any party opposing it. Hence, it’s adversaries of the opposing parties which are basically people that agree with the authoratitive regime itself.</p>

<p>okay let’s move on please. use a dictionary if you guys aren’t sure of your answers.</p>

<p>anyone want to discuss more appropriate, arguable things like the passage questions? FUEL CELLS or MACCHU PICCU ANYONE?</p>

<p>i also remember fecundity being an answer for a sentence completion.
something about fish and reproduction.
i get the feeling this may be an experimental section though because it had a double passage but the 20min verbal also had a double section.</p>

<p>blue??? 10char.</p>

<p>^does that mean you had blue or not?? i don’t remember those words or examples…</p>

<p>i guarantee that if you write down the question exactly as you remember it, CrossTheUniverse, you’ll see that although “adversaries” may make sense (and it doesn’t), “inclined” does not. reread my explanation if you don’t get it.</p>

<p>Guys…</p>

<p>Elites is opposite of rank-and-file and it was a contrast question. </p>

<p>So that is the right one…</p>

<p>I had a blue SAT booklet. And those are the words that worked in the sentences cuz I looked them up.</p>

<p>machu wasnt bad… i was a little confused on the 1st second question but the others werent bad</p>

<p>water = moistened
layered = levels of zones or something</p>

<p>lol shizzle thats what i’ve been saying but nobody listens to me :(</p>

<p>tbonus, i agree with all of those answers. any more you remember?</p>

<p>I’m tired of arguing about this problem. It all depends on what the sentence was, even though I’m pretty sure it said “The authoritative regime gave rights to the _____ of the opponent party”.
@tbonus: yeah I remember most of those. I got most of those answers.</p>

<p>I’ll talk about passages… haha. Hmmm… <em>thinks</em></p>

<p>But was “elite”, in the context of the sentence, supposed to be contrasted with “rank-and-file”? I don’t think it was. I think the compensation was awarded to the whatevers in the first blank. And yes, it does matter that stalwarts are faithful members of a group. Those who adhere to a political ideology are resolute in their opinions and are thus rank-and-file members.</p>

<p>I had trouble with the fuel cell passage. I ran outta time…blehh</p>

<p>Btw I put stalwarts…compensation as well if that means anything haha.</p>

<p>tbonus From what I remember I got the same answers. I may not have put the same thing for the question referring to lines 7-9 but I’m not positive. Overall I didn’t think the Machu Picchu passage was too bad. Fuel cells, however…</p>

<p>hmm lets see…fuel cells, there were multiple “how would ___ respond to ___” questions. i know for sure one of them is that the author of passage 1 would say that the cost in passage 2 is not as important as the economic independence of the States.</p>

<p>Fuel cells was hard. Ohh I have a question for that. The question about a sentence in passage 2… (about reg. cars) was the author:</p>

<p>providing one reason about the promise of fuel cells
or comparing battery cars w/ internal combustion engines</p>

<p>I put the first one.</p>

<p>Same here audio. The energy independence is more important than cost.</p>

<p>tbonus, can you expand on the “comparison if battery powered vs gas powered”. i dont really remember that question…</p>

<p>self-admonition
(?)</p>

<p>I wasn’t sure if they compared battery powered vs. gas powered. Cuz they only mention it once. I put, it was one of the reasons it has a promising future cuz the other goes on providing more examples.</p>