October 2009 SAT Critical Reading

<p>I picked discovery as well…I’m almost positive this is right. I don’t think it has to do with admiration… The people FOUNDED Michelangelo and that other guy… I think this is the BEST answer. </p>

<p>My opinion though.</p>

<p>So which one was experimental for critical reading? Is there a way to find out right now? Or do you have to wait until they reveal that information online in like a week? When do they reveal which one is experimental online?</p>

<p>I had writing experimental.</p>

<p>The official sections for CR were …</p>

<p>1) Geologist/Universe
2) Nikhil/Gogol
3) Artists and Women (including Giotto)</p>

<p>what were the answer choices for the iceberg question?</p>

<p>Discovery!!</p>

<p>What does 3.) Artists mean?</p>

<p>The section on Giotto?</p>

<p>Does this mean the one about the woman and her past with art/literary criticism (Willa Cather) doesn’t count?</p>

<p>masses and masses of myths about artists</p>

<p>i’m prettty certain…discovery was verymuch OVER ANALYZING.
which is exactly what not to do?</p>

<p>isn’t slip = forget momentarily?</p>

<p>Beinghere: you overthought it.</p>

<p>The direct line reference was to “He must be better than I am!”. The question is how that quote related to the previous section, which used the exact word: “admiration”.</p>

<p>Vocab
1.Inhospitable
2.Entranced…lexicon
3.Hobble
4.Synthesized… Crystallized
5.Polymath
6.captious… edifying
7.satellite
8.slapstick
9.recrimination
10.defiant… reinforced
11.redundant… frustration
12. plasticity
13. eclectic
14. grounded in for the rock one (blue artist)
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
(not sure how many vocabs)</p>

<p>passage
publish girl
20.independence? (girl , peace corps passage)
21.explain reaction (in the girl entering into publishing work)</p>

<p>name change, Nikhil
22.surprised the work is finished? (name change , so much work is no work
23.intense and involuntary?? (his response, name change)
24. slip- momentarily forget
25. Compliant (parent’s response to the name change)
26. parallel structure ( any one gives what the context is?</p>

<p>Zen (two passages)
27.worth to obtain (diploma, cars, jobs)
28. title - feast (Zen)
29. unavoidable imposition (“the present”)
30. completely agree / partially agree ?</p>

<p>Geology, Mercator, Atlas of the Universe
31. immediately understandable? Or artificially enhanced?
32. Novelty and diversity? (Space Atlas prompt, they asked why the author chose to use a long list of words to describe the book. “Here were…”)
33. usefulness in modern technology (Mercator invented this thing to chart Earth stuff a long time ago
34.Historical speculation?
35.level of detail not interesting to geologists
36. Chart (plot)
37. singer listening to a similar song?
38.</p>

<p>Great Artist, Michelangelo
39. steryotyped way (about the sheep story)
40. Mocking? Or jeering? (a flock of sheep)
41.Wry? (tone in the article about artist)
42. discovery (remarks about Michelangelo)
43.
44.
45.</p>

<p>Women, aristocrat, Artist, Why there are no famous women artists
46.full time endeavor
47.women and aristocrat’s social position
48.rustic circumstances (a part of stock-in-trade)
49. rigidity of social structures?? (iceberg of misconceptions and misinterpretations)
50. genius is not specific to a type of people?</p>

<p>Napping
51.Employers (The employers refuted the statement that napping makes people unproductive by their action of instituting a so-called “napping room.”
52.
53.
54.
Native Americans and memorization + ceremony texts
55. repititon is not included to aid in memory (native American ceremonies
56.
57.
58.
59
60.
61.
62.
63
64.
65.
66.
67.</p>

<p>Artist section = Giotto</p>

<p>could anyone explain the actual question and answer choices to these questions?</p>

<p>“women and aristocrat’s social position”</p>

<p>AND </p>

<p>“genius is not specific to groups of people”</p>

<p>unfortunately you are wrong for the iceberg
the author is stating that the tip of the iceberg referred to only the mass of common yet “biased” (inferred) that undermine the genius of women.
C) is too extreme since ETS will never use such a harsh wording( except maybe Hitler)
Rigidity of social structure makes no sense at all, as nowhere is this described. I presume that this is located in “beneath” the iceberg later on in the passage, where it is described that the rigid social structure is the cause of restrictions on women
You can later infer this as the author describes that underneath the iceberg lays the surreptitious contribution of social status and gender</p>

<p>Hey does anyone remember what the answer to this question was: </p>

<p>Why did Nikhil sign up for art classes at the last minute?
The choices were like

  • He inherited skills from his grandfather
  • He wanted to annoy his parents
  • He acted on an impulse
    etcetc</p>

<p>The Buddhist one. Hdonist zen etc<br>
Was one of the answers wasting lots of moments of his life? It was reaction to passage 2</p>

<p>^ I put impulse</p>

<p>is there one question about Nakhil feeling frustrated because of the change he made?</p>

<p>^ satellite is an answer for vocab, right?</p>

<p>“^ satellite is an answer for vocab, right?” </p>

<p>yes</p>

<p>lullaby->I agree with you completely</p>