November 2010 SAT - Critical Reading

<p>I said spectacle but was really unsure about that answer. </p>

<p>for the man and the audience, I said he was unnerved because they were rude. The comedian guy, right?</p>

<p>I put spectacle but really it could go either way…</p>

<p>Ahh yeah you are right about the comedian one. It was unnerved.</p>

<p>I chose fundamental laws even though I really hesitated with codified rules.
I said spectacle and I also chose B for the man with th audience…</p>

<p>For the asian drawing one, what was the answer for the one that asked about a word that fits the closest meaning of “cast” as used in the passage? Was it mold?</p>

<p>In the one about the Chinese artist, I was really confused about the question that asked about her need for embroidery. What did you all put?</p>

<p>Hmm… I put something completely different for that but I don’t remember what. What were the other options?</p>

<p>yoo maple i think i put mold</p>

<p>Exhibit: to show publicly especially for purposes of competition or demonstration
Spectacle: something exhibited to view as unusual, notable, or entertaining</p>

<p>Wow, they mean practically the same thing. Spectacle even has exhibit in its definition!
Such an unfair question.</p>

<p>for the cast one, I put tinge.</p>

<p>The choices were mold, troupe, tinge…then I don’t know</p>

<p>I had this one. I thought the echolocation with bats SUCKED; it was so boring and hard. But i actually thought the Reading section got progressively easier. Overall, it was OK. I know i bombed the section with the echolocation, but the others I don’t think i did too shabby on.</p>

<p>I might have put mold. What context was cast used in?</p>

<p>I put exhibit because of how the author (sarcastically, which was another answer) suggested paying the audience too. Doesn’t really justify it, but it seemed to work at the time.
Does anybody remember what letter unnerved was?</p>

<p>Also, the Mandarin passage, was there a question about their relationship or something? I vaguely remember something about their relationship.</p>

<p>And for the musician passage, the feeling was most similar to a professor realizing she can give a lecture just as well without having to consult her notes.</p>

<p>I said tinge because it talked about shading</p>

<p>blue, I think it was talking about the shading on the flower.</p>

<p>I actually put tinge, because it made more sense when put into the sentence, but then when I think of casting, I think of casting metal and molding it into a shape.</p>

<p>For the other one, I put “spectacle.” It seemed like the author was trying to emphasize how ridiculous it was to make a huge deal out of college sports games, so that seemed to fit the sentence better.</p>

<p>Mandarin, I said the same for the musician passage. And for the one about the Mandarin relationship, did you mean the one where it asked what their relationship most resembled in a certain paragraph? I put teacher student.</p>

<p>Hmmm either I accidently skipped that question or put mold. Was it at the beginning or the end of the sentence?</p>

<p>@maple. yeah I put student teacher.</p>

<p>Yes, I put teacher/student as well. And I think I put tinge, but I’m really not sure. I know I put tinge at first, but went back and could have changed it. Don’t remember if I did though.</p>

<p>Ugh, this exhibit/spectacle question is such BS.</p>

<p>

Philistinism is a derogatory term used to describe a particular attitude or set of values. A person called a Philistine (in the relevant sense) is said to despise or undervalue art, beauty, intellectual content, or spiritual values. Philistines are also said to be materialistic, to favor conventional social values unthinkingly, and to favor forms of art that have a cheap and easy appeal (e.g. kitsch).</p>

<p>Hardly applies to someone who allied with nonconformist artists.</p>