<p>for the author’s opinion i thought about appealing/ludicrous, but it asked what the first author’s opinion of the statement would be… and i thought there’s no way he thinks that going to school for only academics is “appealing” (you wouldnt get scholarships OR get paid)… however ludicrous it may be, i thought the appealing part negated it</p>
<p>^no. </p>
<p>In the passage it said that the notion “was lovable–yet absurd and something else–”</p>
<p>The lovable part indicates its appeal, not its logicality.</p>
<p>that was such an easy question guys. Why are you arguing about this?</p>
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Something else was “often violated”, I believe. I agree, this clearly points to appealing but ludicrous.</p>
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Agreed.</p>
<p>Agree w/ tinge. Another easy question. You guys seem to get all the hard ones correct and easy ones wrong. I wish i was like you.</p>
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Isn’t the goal to get none wrong? An easy question is worth the same point that a hard question is. Plus, “easy” and “hard” are subjective, though the CollegeBoard does categorize them as such, using an average benchmark.</p>
<p>What bothers me is that I could have gotten an 800 if I hadn’t gone back and changed my answers.</p>
<p>Yea that is the goal, which is unrealistic for me. So i would rather live with getting all hard ones correct and easy ones wrong because you can always improve on the ez questions, thus giving a higher a chance of reaching the 800</p>
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This was me on the US History SAT Subject Test. I would have gotten an 800 if I didn’t go back and change a couple answers when I was finished.</p>
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Also agreed.</p>
<p>last posted by blue2152001:</p>
<p>Sentence completions:
- derivation
- baleful-trepidation
- posthumously
- miscellany
- feasible…monetary
- confound…
- something…abashed???
- eclectic
- languorous- langorous: a man being listless was the context.
- neglible?
- digression?
- Distrust
- Childish
- quiescent…exacting. the court one. the judge or something’s life was far from ___<strong><em>; for her appeals she had to make _</em></strong> preparations
- unnerved…rude
- renegade
- Sequestered…was there a second blank?</p>
<p>so it was definitely quiescent?</p>
<p>yes
quiscent=relaxing, calm
exacting=demanding</p>
<p>ok i’m thinking of canceling my score.</p>
<p>there was no second blank on sequestered.</p>
<p>@alexxanderr, there was a second black. Otherwise, inoculation would’ve been right, too.</p>
<p>^there indeed was a second blank on sequestered. Do you guys want to know what it is? I know…i won’t tell tho!! hehe</p>
<p>Critical Reading</p>
<p>Sentence Completion
convenient
vexing…stymied (math conjecture)
pedestrian (no flair + no imagination)
convenient
population
verve
evocation
partisan
bias
dearth
diminution (robins)
mosaic
dispute
foster
exhort
flexible
conservative
mollify
inflamed
obdurate</p>
<p>Passage Comprehension</p>
<p>Man Visits from Northern City
Marriage proposal
woman had complex personality</p>
<p>Langston Hughes
Passage was about one of his goals as a writer
relationship was like moderator (advisor)?</p>
<p>Farmhouse
The conversation between the daughter and father was a ritual that they often participated in.
Daughter went from nostalgia to indifference
parenthetical reference to lack of quotations on modern-lack of irony and self-consciousness
absence makes the heart grow fonder
both the daughter and the father are conscious to each others feelings
author implies that newer farmhouses have a better view of the countryside</p>
<p>Chemical Farming
Both authors agree that worlds population needs to be supported
Thats right.- Author acknowledges that her point is surprising
Author of Passage 2 would argue that even using just a little bit of chemicals can produce high-yield crops
Passage 1 offers a solution while Passage 2 offers a moderated version of it</p>
<p>Hummingbird
passage explains why not all hummingbirds have evolved to have long bills</p>
<p>Quantum Physics (grrr
…)
nervous=uneasy
visualization affected the work style of one quantum physicist
“shatter question”- showed how old ideas were discredited
First paragraph served to set up the nature of the problem</p>
<p>Caribbean
produced=generated
Government more motivated by commercial than cultural interests
Youngsters idolizing Hollywood celebrities- effect of cultural penetration Japanese
Caribbean families are flexible and inclusive
language is tenacious and dynamic
Caribbean ppl often denied sense of identity
To show a paradox set of attitudes (why talk about family and language?) </p>
<p>Deception
Last paragraph functions to make a general statement about the nature of deception
Author 2s tone was more judgmental
habitually lying dehumanizes the liar
calculated=planned
could/should say= conceivable
beneficial
tone of quote was nonchalant
the 19th century philosophers would claim that lying leads to more vicious and harmful lying
The author of passage 1 would respond to author 2 by saying deception is necessary in some social situations</p>
<p>I’m so confused on the question concerning this excerpt from the chinese painter passage…</p>
<p>“It’s the same need that drove her to stay up through the early morning hours at the Hall, coaxing peonies and fresh-faced peaches onto cloth with her needle.”</p>
<p>oh yeah what were the answer choices for that one?</p>
<p>What’s the "parenthetical reference to lack of quotations on modern-lack of irony and self-consciousness? " Anyone remember which quote it was referring?</p>