<p>yeah…well i need an 800 on this or the nov test if i plan on sendin Duke a 2400 for financial aid/scholarship - are most of you guys juniors?</p>
<p>thats what i think too! the questions were kind of strange, i wasnt sure. one of the questions was what is the distance from point P to line l, and the diagram clearly showed a length of 4. the question seemed too easy and straightforward, it wasnt even like a math question at all.</p>
<p>agreed, “i took the sat”</p>
<p>except for the last one. I was stuck on that one too. I put “explain a reaction”.
Pretty sure it’s that.</p>
<p>oh and I put mocking. sure on that one.</p>
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<p>I’ve learned the hard way that for SATs, it does pay to disregard the entire passage. That may well be why we disagree on different questions. But we shall see soon enough…</p>
<p>@i took
I put explain a reaction</p>
<p>and what did u put - mocking or satirizing?</p>
<p>hey “i took the sat” - i agree w/ most of your stuff, but can you go in depth about the context of the publishing girl and mocking vs jeering ( i totally forget that one)</p>
<p>It was to explain a reaction.</p>
<p>Damn. I can’t remember whether I put mocking or satirizing.</p>
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<p>I take a similar approach for certain questions. I went up from 70 on my PSAT to a pretty consistent 800 after adapting to this method. I pretty much ignore the passage if it gives specific line numbers (i.e. xx-xx).
It works. I promise!</p>
<p>lol @i took the sat. the last sentence cracked me up. that one seemed a little ambiguous to me… not criticize a behavior, but between independence and lack of ambition. if i recall correctly the passage went from saying the girl got a journalism job from her friends dad, which confused her parents and continues to detail her friends who have engagements in magazines and are practically in the running for the nobel peace prize (lack of ambition?) and then it talks about how she hasn’t borrowed a cent and that everything you ‘dole out’ to your children ‘binds them to you’. then something ‘disconcerted’ the parents. the question asked what disconcerted them… if anyone can find the exact passage, that’d help.</p>
<p>@inert
what did u put for the indian ceromonial texts one?</p>
<p>something about memorization or about importance?</p>
<p>if i omit like a total of 6 on the CR and get like 3 wrong, what would my score be?</p>
<p>mabsjenbu123: it was definitely memorization</p>
<p>memorization, sure of it.</p>
<p>yes, it was captious and edifying.</p>
<p>yes, a satellite.</p>
<p>people who put “discovery” instead of “admiration” did not read the question right, which said that the dude’s quote (along the lines of ‘he’s so much better than me’) is most parrallel to the other story. obviously it’s admiration.</p>
<p>i put jeering, ■■■.</p>
<p>the publishing girl was basically this: the girl gets a job at a publishing company. her parents are confused. then the parents realize that many of their friends’ daughters are getting jobs in the TIMES and stuff like that, AS IF GETTING A DEGREE PUTS THEM IN THE ______ SECTION OF THINGS… that’s why i put criticizing the behavior of the girls: they think getting a degree is a bad thing, and to the parents, it is clearly not.</p>
<p>but i don’t know about that one.</p>
<p>@laplast, that was the second question, we are talking about the first question. btw the answer to the second question was INDEPENDENCE.</p>
<p>Can you guys restate the question and the answer choices of the question referring to the last line of the native american passage???</p>
<p>@pokemon3 -</p>
<p>To me, it’s obvious that it’s NOT obvious. The reason why I put discovery, and why many other people did too, is that in the example with Michelangelo, it says the master <em>left the room for a short while, and WHEN HE CAME BACK</em>, he saw Michelangelo’s paintings and exclaimed (surprisedly) “he’s better than I”. This is not mere admiration, this is him seeing Michelangelo’s talents FOR THE FIRST TIME and then exclaiming about the quality of them.</p>
<p>^agreed, I also put discovery.</p>
<p>guys, listen. the question asks this: “the statement made by michelangelo’s master is most like which element of the giotto story?”</p>
<p>IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE FACT THAT THE GUY LEFT.</p>
<p>the question asks you to refer to, AND ONLY TO, the statement. not the circumstances of the statement. the SAT is extremely literal and objective, i’m surprised you guys don’t know this yet.</p>