October 2009 SAT Critical Reading

<p>The journalists one was captious/edifying:</p>

<p>They wanted edifying criticism, that would teach and help them.
Instead, he gave them captious, nitpicky comments.</p>

<p>what was the answer to the sentence completion problem that had core, atmosphere, and meteor/meteorite i forgot as the choices? I put core. am I wrong? =X</p>

<p>no; the section including the napping paragraphs was not experimental.</p>

<p>The question about the simplified worldview given by the picture that the Apollo mission took was that it did not show the details that were geologists’ main interest.</p>

<p>yoitzzjasonn, it’s satellite.</p>

<p>at howon92</p>

<p>nope. that question was tricky and im not sure what the answer was but I remember getting an answer that I was sure was right. </p>

<p>something like “it wasn’t complicated like geologists are used to”</p>

<p>I said mock too.
Hopefully it is right.</p>

<p>The journalists one was captious/edifying:</p>

<p>They wanted edifying criticism, that would teach and help them.
Instead, he gave them captious, nitpicky comments. </p>

<p>Other way around. But yeah.</p>

<p>for nikhil’s response was it: “intense and something like uncontrolled” or “intermittant and nonsensical”</p>

<p>Metis was a “satellite” of Jupiter.</p>

<p>Nikhil thought that his old name was like a filling; it hurt badly at random times – “intense and involuntary.”</p>

<p>Why was the picture of Earth not a geological view?</p>

<p>I put different aesthetic way.
many people got “details…”</p>

<p>I could support my answer quite well.
is there anyone who agrees with me?</p>

<p>what about the question in the nikhail passage where you had to define “slip”? i said forget momentarily but it could have been address awkwarly.</p>

<p>Anyone get “frustrated”?</p>

<p>it was forget momentarily</p>

<p>and anyone get admonition for that one vocab about hiking and danger? i’m pretty sure it was that… what other vocab was there?</p>

<p>slip = momentarily forget</p>

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<p>I’m 100% that wasn’t the answer, and I consider myself to be pretty beast at the CR section x]. </p>

<p>The correct answer was something about the picture of the Earth not being complicated enough.</p>

<p>Geologists don’t look at things “aesthetically”; rather, they look at the processes of the Earth to discover the way things work. “Details” is the better answer, but I can see where you’re coming from.</p>

<p>Its clearly historical speculation. A hypothesis is testable, but the author was speculating if Mercator realized the consequences. Easily speculation.</p>

<p>Is Parsimonious and redundancy the answer for a MC ?</p>

<p>I confirm intense and involuntary as well as “frustrated” about the situation he made.</p>

<p>I said sarcastic, mock didn’t seem like it was correct, but I may be wrong.</p>

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<p>Yeah, that’s what I put.</p>

<p>For the Nikhal one the last one was frustrated, because he had created the problem himself and knew that he was the cause of those feelings.</p>