October 2009 SAT Critical Reading

<p>artificially enhanced or immediatly apparent for faces and features of planets?</p>

<p>One answer I put stereotypical elements.</p>

<p>Forgot the meaning of “wry” =.=</p>

<p>Anyway, anyone wants to discuss about the passage referring Nikhil? I was kinda confused by it</p>

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neither. forgot what i put, though</p>

<p>I said immediately apparent because it said something about your eyes understanding it initially.</p>

<p>I got slapstick for the “I Love Lucy” one.</p>

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i was thinking of putting this too but i wasn’t sure since michelangelo’s mentor already knew he was an artist (he’s referred to as an art student) - he didn’t “discover” him as an artist, so i put admired</p>

<p>yeah, slapstick is right.</p>

<p>Wow, I definitely failed the critical reading.</p>

<p>Umm… for the one that had satirized, i put satirized. no idea if that’s right or not.</p>

<p>i put admired.</p>

<p>a confirmed answers list?:
Chart?
Entranced…lexicon?
Compliant?
Wry?
Admiration?
Inhospitable
Mocking? Or jeering?
slapstick
immediately understandable</p>

<p>add to the list or confirm</p>

<p>Guys the passage refers to him saying that he was “even better than I am.” If that isn’t admiration then what is?</p>

<p>immediately understandable, not apparent (just my correction)</p>

<p>Did anyone have either the passage about the woman who wanted her daughter to write about her life story or the one with the geologist reading a book about the universe? One was experimental apparently.</p>

<p>Also, don’t assume that the boy with the sheep had considerable artistic talent. The passage did not mention that. Instead, the mentor was impressed with what he had done on a slab of stone.</p>

<p>And I put artificially enhanced because he talked about how they were able to generate images of the surfaces. The lines that were given referred back to the part with the explorer and his technique.</p>

<p>I did. But I don’t think that was experimental. They were really tough</p>

<p>The geologist reading about the universe was not experimental</p>

<p>yes, I put immediately understandable too.</p>

<p>can we discuss the tone question? (wry, inquisitive, puzzled)
doesn’t wry mean “a dry humor?” that’s why I put inquisitive instead of wry although inquisitive seemed a little bit too extreme…</p>

<p>What I felt the art prof was saying:
2nd paragraph - the biographies of these “great artists’” lives are so trite, and derivative
3rd paragraph - hey, look at Picasso’s dad! Picasso wouldn’t have been able to pass those exams with flying colors had he been borne a woman, and the mere virtue of his fathers art profession.
4th paragraph - hence, the circumstances of women and aristocrats are the same as they 1. don’t have the time for a “full out endeavor” 2. its the circumstances…(summation of point)</p>

<p>About the section relating to art, the master judged that Michelangelo was better (or greater?) than him. That was definitely NOT pertaining to discovery</p>

<p>that tone question was just referring to one specific line (that i can’t remember). the whole passage might have been inquistive, but i thought that one line was wry
perhaps though, you already knew all of this and still put inquistive.</p>

<p>was the reading section about the napping the experimental one?</p>