October 2009 SAT Critical Reading

<p>what was the answer to the question about the author’s use of the phrase ‘it is as Nikhil…it is as Nikhil…’. i think some of the options were a… A) Metaphor B) Paraphrase…cant remember the rest</p>

<p>anyone remembered the question for “idealistic narrative”?</p>

<p>so is the consensus on the singer reviewing similar songs?</p>

<p>of course, the dude had seen the planets before,but he saw them in a different way in the atlas</p>

<p>For the Geologist one wasn’t there a question about the faces of the planets and delicate features?</p>

<p>Can someone explain to me how the geologist was like a singer listening to the same song…</p>

<p>I put a kid finding a lost toy because the girl rediscovered her joy when she found the atlas</p>

<p>anyone can remember:'nikhil signed up for art last minute"?</p>

<p>singer singing the same song was write… I was positive about that choice</p>

<p>and yes, the answer to signing up last minute was “following an impulse” or something</p>

<p>The geologist found the atlas predictable because she saw things she already knew such as the red spot on Jupiter and the rings on planets and blah blah blah. It was predictable to her. The same would be said about a singer who reads music she already knows.</p>

<p>Did anyone get redundancy…frustration for a sentence completion? (Edit: yay, that should be right.)</p>

<p>Also, for the iceberg question, did anyone NOT put mass of received ideas about art? I can’t remember my answer, but it wasn’t that.</p>

<p>^It was redundancy for the civil rights question, and it was mass received ideas for the iceberg question.</p>

<p>It wasn’t the mass received ideas.</p>

<p>The passage was talking about how artistic critics often don’t delve deeply in their identification of genius. The tip of the iceberg represented the assumption that genius is simply “there.” The part submerged below water represented the social setting in which genius develops (a part of genius that critics ignore).</p>

<p>Has -3 ever been an 800 on CR?</p>

<p>Luminouzz: I can’t remember my choice, but I think I definitely put down the same answer as you - the assumption about genius.</p>

<p>If I’m wrong, that’d be -3 for me…likely -3 (with penalty) is 770.</p>

<p>To settle this
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/791943-passage-why-there-no-famous-women-artists.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/791943-passage-why-there-no-famous-women-artists.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>no the answer to iceburg was NOT the social setting. the social setting was only one of a list of things the author included in the iceburg</p>

<p>it was one of the “mass of recieved ideas about genius” (or whatever that answer was).</p>

<p>Hi guys do you remember any other questions about the Native American texts passage?? I think I missed up that one…</p>

<p>ohh and for the women artsists passage- the second to last question-</p>

<p>1)
the people who put because of geniuos…was that the answer that was like “genius - is a golden nugget- that not everyone can have”??</p>

<p>2)
was hobble and disseminate in the same sentence completion??</p>

<p>3)
can anyone remember any other answer choices for the atlas guy being compared to a singer who knows a song </p>

<p>thanks!!!</p>

<p>Native American text was experimental.</p>

<h1>1. can’t remember</h1>

<h1>2. yes, it was. hobble’s the answer.</h1>

<h1>3. uhh… they were all like non-new actions. i think one was about a microscope?</h1>

<p>can anyone elaborate more on the altas to the universe text, any specific quotes that you remember, so it’ll be easier for me to find the original text for us all?</p>

<p>native american texts was NOT experimental. (it was the second of two short passages, the first being about elizabeth and her parents. remember, “independence” and “explain a reaction”)</p>

<p>that was in the Gogol section and the hobble section.</p>

<p>the answer was about how repitition can not be seen as a tool for memorization.</p>

<p>I can’t recall any quotes long enough to aid a google.</p>

<p>I apologize if these questions have already been discussed, but there are just so many pages to sift through.</p>

<p>1.) What was the geologist seeing all of the pictures most comparable to?</p>

<p>I put a chef tasting a new herb, but what was the other answer choice (verbatim, if possible) about the singer?</p>

<p>2.) Did the passage about Nikhil show that he inherited the talent from his grandfather or that he allowed an impulse to guide him?</p>

<p>I put allowed an impulse to guide him because it said “at the last minute,” and I couldn’t find anything saying explicitly that Nikhil had any talent with regard to drawing.</p>