October 2009 SAT Critical Reading

<p>@light10491
some people got 4 CR sections
i got 4 math sections…but i have the napping, the woman artist, the geology, the name change, so the one that we didn’t get is the experimental…</p>

<p>Thanks a lot Andromeda for clarifying that. Did you read a passage about literary criticism/art criticism that also mentioned Willa Cather, and how other critics’ views on her impacted this person’s views on criticism?</p>

<p>Nope. Fortunately not. Sounds very boring.</p>

<p>Vocab- something about legislation/-ture/-tive</p>

<p>I got legislation as the answer.</p>

<p>what passage was the human patterns about? and what was the question?
i’m really really hoping for -3.</p>

<p>What was the legislation one about?</p>

<p>It was the Napping passages. The first one told the story of the kid whose family thought napping was for lazies. The second one had an expert saying that napping was necessary and inherent. Thus the expert would not agree with the family by saying that napping is a human pattern.</p>

<p>Actually that was my friend Leslie’s score
she called me and said that she was somewhat disappointed</p>

<p>anyway, did u guys get the solitary life requires family topic for writing</p>

<p>what did u use for examples</p>

<p>I used Scarlet Letter and 1984, difficult but worthwhile</p>

<p>My conclusion was just one long sentence because I ran out of time, but the previous paragraphs were filled by explicit reasoning and “BIG” words. wut do u think ill get?</p>

<p>I have a burning question.</p>

<p>I’ve gotten a mixture of the answers right and wrong (assuming the answers on his list are all right - ?) and I think I’ve missed somewhere near TEN on the reading. That is insane. Do I cancel? T__T PLEASE HELP ME</p>

<p>@aluminum I really can’t recall the sentence. Vocab medium question was all I remember.</p>

<p>of course its legislation because it describes passing laws afterwards to appease the people, and if u know your constitution the very first part of it (excluding the Preamble) is called the legislature</p>

<p>Okay thx. I don’t think i put that</p>

<p>Omg I’m so afraid of my critical reading score now. But a lot of the one’s I got wrong are the one’s this forum is unsure of which is right or wrong.</p>

<p>Lol I used Ebenezer Scrooge.</p>

<p>Our teacher taught us to do single-example essays because he thinks they’re the best. So, I just did one big example on Ebenezer Scrooge and how he realizes that family - and love, togetherness, etc. - are important and “essential” aspects of human life. Blah.</p>

<p>i think legislative is in the writing section, the improving paragraph part</p>

<p>same here
Im up to nine wrong on the critical reading</p>

<ol>
<li>is definitely intense and involuntary because it is compared to toothache</li>
<li>I put mocking and believe it is mocking biographies that are always hyperbolic</li>
<li>definitely independence</li>
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<p>^agree. though i got “independence” wrong–i had it at first then erased it! agh.</p>

<p>^ Don’t worry I did the same for two vocabs. This is killing me. I could have gotten at least 750!!!</p>

<p>recommended essay books:
!984-just about anything-totalitarianism, perfect society is created through progress not domination, importance of freedom of speech and thought, inner dilemma, futility of hope
Brave New World-Everything above, and that technology may serve as a uniting and destructive force
Fahrenheit 451-Fight for what you believe in (Martyrdom)
Scarlet Letter-Definition of sins, burdens, social neglect, finds love and hope only through daughter and Dimmesdale</p>