<p>what was the exact wording of E? </p>
<p>i think it’d be a good idea for a list of the passage names/tags to be created, and then assign specific answers to each; that fat list is a little confusing.</p>
<p>billgordon</p>
<p>you can’t against the fact that the author says that the social condition of women and aristocrats is what makes them less likely to be artists though. which is essentially choice E. I don’t remember B but Im sure something in the exact answer wasn’t right.</p>
<p>i agree that their social condition prevents them from succeeding. i’m just wondering if that was actually what E talked about; I remember reading getting a different meaning from it. anyone remember the wording?</p>
<p>do you guys know what the context of MOCKING and JEERING was?</p>
<p>because i know i chose one of those two, but i dont remember which ><</p>
<p>thx</p>
<p>I said B as well, but I also debated between B and E. I ultimately chose B because of it’s clear wording and definitive answer.</p>
<p>Summarizing B was clear: Genius was important but also required cultivation. From this, you can deduce in a linear manner that women/aristocrats did not lack genius, but lacked the enviornment for it to develop. This coincides with what the author said.</p>
<p>Summazriing E was a little hazy: Genius was not an inherent part of specific groups. This could either mean:
- Genius was not solely just for middle class males - it was something all groups shared. This would concur with the author.
- Genius was not an inherent part of the female psyche/aristocrats. This would be the complete opposite of what the author said.</p>
<p>Because of the ambiguity in what E meant, I chose B - though I fully understand the reason for E.</p>
<p>someone in a post WAY earlier phrased it similar to how you just did.</p>
<p>Depending on how their phrased I guess because both seem to have merit. Still going with E, which is the consensus.</p>
<p>also, a few things</p>
<p>did anyone without experimental CR have a vocab question with answer choices “macabre” and “protean”? </p>
<p>was the calligraphy passage nonexperimental, and if so, were the reporter’s questions “facile”?</p>
<p>and were the parents of the girl “callous/vindictive” or “demanding/judgmental”?</p>
<p>i don’t remember any of those questions billgordon and had experimental reading…</p>
<p>no one is replying on the writing page! did anyone have the experimental writing? If so, which one was experimental the first or the second?</p>
<p>It was definitely jeering because the SAt would not go to such extremes as to “mock” the respected artists myths</p>
<p>Billgordan: that’s experimental.</p>
<p>Stix2400: I’m sticking with B because of it’s lack of ambiguity. I haven’t seen someone list a legitamate reason for why B is NOT a correct answer. I think the debate is now moving towards: What is the BEST answer?</p>
<p>I’ve brought this up a few times already, but haven’t had a clear response. In the Space Atlas prompt, they asked why the author chose to use a long list of words to describe the book.</p>
<p>My debate was between
A. Novelty and diversity
B. Describe in detail the satellites (or something like that)
E. Fascination with new places</p>
<p>I ended choosing B after erasing A. E is probably incorrect because it is too vague. I felt B was a safer answer, but I’m am uncertain if it’s teh best answer.</p>
<p>Edit: As for mocking vs jeering, it’s about how strong the tone really was. As you can tell by MW’s definition “to speak or cry out with derision or mockery” the two words have a lot in common. But I don’t really know how anyone can reasonably argue that the author was “crying out”.</p>
<p>first was exp I believe</p>
<p>it was the one about troub___ (music related)</p>
<p><a href=“mailto:satquestion@info”>satquestion@info</a>.
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<p>e-mail and explain the ambiguity on the “artificially enhanced” vs. “immediately understandable” debate because that really is ambiguous. maybe we’ll get it voided :)</p>
<p>so all three (“macabre/protean, calligraphy instructor passage, and girl marrying artist” were experimental? sweet. (please verify)</p>
<p>were the third to last and the last questions for the art historian passage both D?</p>
<p>i thought it was immediately understandable because they were clear to the eye.</p>
<p>@ billgordon, yeah i think so, thats what i put.</p>
<p>I put novelty and diversity because the geologist was like “WOW” there is much more to examine beyond the infinite realm of the Terra and he/she (I forgot the gender) goes on to talk about jupiters moon and the dust from Io and other specific details about planets.</p>
<p>questionmark</p>
<p>I don’t think you’re remembering the actual question for the “novelty diversity” correctly. I believe the answer was “novelty diversity” but as far as the actual question, I remember it being something else, or something more specific. I thought he was describing geologists, more specifically the “novelty and diversity” that geologists study.</p>
<p>also I believe the phrasing for E on the E/B debate was something to the effect of</p>
<p>“artistic genius is something that is not present in people of certain social statuses” which is completely true and the reason the author mentioned aristocrats in the first place.</p>
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<p>I agree. Unfortunately I only remember 2 answer choices. The two mentioned above</p>
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<p>Michelangelo was not discussed in this particular sentence. It sarcastically talked about some artists not wielding sheep or something along those lines. I don’t even remember “jeering” being an answer choice, and if so, what was after it, what was she jeering at? Also, why would she have qualms with people coming for rustic backgrounds? The point of the entire paragraph was about how art historians had developed this silly narrative. Hence, the comment was making fun of the invented narrative, not the rural background. </p>
<p>The Gogol-surprised-the-work-was-finished thing is still bothering me. I put something like he was anxious about the new situation. Any other lit nerds here instantly recognize it was a passage from Jhumpa Lahiri?</p>
<p>okay, i think in general you guys are reading way too deep into the questions - if 50% of you guys were right, i will have a worse grade on this CR than my last, which i doubt.</p>
<p>i dont know your guys’ study background, but i went through all ten practice tests in the new CB blue book and checked the reasoning w/ the online answers - all of the reasoning is pretty straightforward, nothing requires a lot of thought</p>
<p>i would say immediately understandable because it explicity said “instantly interpretable”</p>
<p>also, i believe the herb one asked for the authors REACTION, so i put herb</p>
<p>as someone else before said: i generally ignore the line references</p>