October 2009 SAT Critical Reading

<p>does ANYBODY remember what were the other choices for immediately understandable one? I dont remember what i put for that question. if anyone remembers please answer!</p>

<p>why not? all the sentences had essentially the same structure.</p>

<p>JAY90HNG, wouldn’t that depend on the curve?</p>

<p>They found the women passage in one of the threads. If you read carefully at the end, it supports the answer that their social status prevented them from it. No where in the passage does it mention being artist taking a lot of time; it only mentions that their social activities took a lot of time. The answer is not full-time endeavor because that’s an assumption, not straight from the text.</p>

<p>What question has “accidental” as an answer?</p>

<p>@Masterus2010 so what shd the answer be??</p>

<p>that’s the whole point—they had lots of things to do. hence, having things to do is only hindering if the other thing takes a lot of time.</p>

<p>The answer that said their social positions prevented them from pursuing the profession, though not exactly phrased like this.</p>

<p>Right, but the question asked about the artist profession, not their social status. The passage did not mention that being an artist is a full-time endeavor: instead, it said that “Or rather, is it not that the kinds of demands and expectations placed before both aristocrats and women–the amount of time necessarily devoted to social functions, the very kinds of activities demanded–simply made total devotion to profession out of the question, indeed unthinkable, both for upper-class males and for women generally, rather than its being a question of genius and talent?”</p>

<p>The amount of time devoted to their social functions is not the same as a full-time endeavor to being an artist. They are talking about two different things in terms of time. Total devotion does not mean full-time endeavor. People can be completely devoted to a project that takes 3 hours to do. That doesn’t make the project a full-time endeavor.</p>

<p>As such, that doesn’t make being an artist a full-time endeavor because the passage didn’t say so. It did say their positions in society prevented them from doing so because their duties took too much time. Instead, the passage supports that their social status was a full-time endeavor, not being an artist.</p>

<p>What’s the experimental section? I had 4 CR Sections.</p>

<p>I tried to summarize all answers but it went unnoticed, so I’ll answer in this post chronically as you asked.</p>

<p>About the singer: He knew how the planets looked like, he had seen them a lot of times, but suddenly he saw them in a new light, he found something new and fascinating in them.</p>

<p>Nikhil signing up for the last minute - it was impulse that drove him. 4 answers didnt make sense and the last one - talent after his grandfather - might be possible, but he might be as well untalented, we dont know from the context.</p>

<p>Iceberg - I believe that the answer “mass of received ideas about art” was right, although I was almost the first one who wrote it here. For some reason, a lot of people picked social rigidity. In my opinion, it means, that there are a lot of “problems” (iceberg), but she’ll talk only about some of them (the tip).</p>

<p>to Luminozz - you’re wrong about the iceberg, but I hope you’re right about the “uneasiness”. I picked it too but I dont believe I was right…</p>

<p>Yeah, impulse drove him. The author emphasized it a lot in the paragraph.</p>

<p>@masterus2010 do you remember the other 3 options? apart from these two?</p>

<p>“the amount of time necessarily devoted to social functions, the very kinds of activities demanded–simply made total devotion to profession out of the question, indeed unthinkable”</p>

<p>I don’t know. I just feel like this relates directly to a full-time endeavor. I was really debating between full-time endeavor and the social status option, but I think that its mention of time and then using the phrase “total devotion” sealed the deal for me.</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. Redundancy… Frustrations
  12. Plasticity
  13. Eclectic
  14. Grounded in rock (blues artist)
  15. Accidental
  16. Admonish
  17. Slapstick (about some comic, comedy or movie)
  18. Recrimination
  19. Specific … Eclectic </p>

<p>Passage
Name change- Nikhil/Gogol
20. impulse to guide him (signing up for drawing classes)
21. the mess he created (name change, last question)
22. surprised the work is finished? (thought it would be so much work and now it was done)
23. intense and involuntary (the tooth ache and his feeling about the name change)
24. slip- momentarily forget
25. Compliant (parents’ response to name change)
26. parallel structure
27. the main idea was about defining himself?
28. process of achieving his goal</p>

<p>Geology, Mercator, Atlas of the Universe
Not sure about the order of the questions.
29. I put sth about the assumed content of the atlas, but I’m not sure…
30. immediately understandable? (about the mercator projection (??) )
31. what? Novelty and diversity was an answer???
32.usefulness in modern technology
33. historical speculation
34. geologists - not enough level of details
35. chart</p>

<p>Great Artist, Michelangelo, Giotto,Women, aristocrat, Artist, Why there are no famous women artists
39. steryotyped way (about he sheep story)
40. Mocking the biographies (a flock of sheep) or jeering?
41. Wry
42. admiration - as someone said - to say that “the kid is better than me” is an expression of admiration.
43.
44.
45.</p>

<p>46.full time endeavor
47.women and aristocrat’s social position
48.rustic circumstances (a part of stock-in-trade)
49. mass of accepted information about genius (iceberg question)
50. genius is not specific to a type of people</p>

<p>Napping
51.Employers
52. it’s a human process to nap
53. caffeine is not what it seems
54. misguided</p>

<p>Native Americans and memorization + ceremony texts</p>

<p>Refutation of a claim
last question - Aid to memory is NOT the reason for the repetition.</p>

<p>Zen (two passages)</p>

<p>-worth to obtain
-squandering opportunities

  • present - probably unavoidable imposition - but i put sth else.
  • Completely agree or partially agree?
  • Title - Feast before you (or sth similar)</p>

<p>That’s what I think. You may disagree, but I’d still go with them unless I see the texts again.</p>

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<p>The question “Why have there been no great women artists?” is simply the top tenth of an iceberg of misinterpretation and misconception; beneath lies a vast dark bulk of shaky ideas recues about the nature of art…"</p>

<p>it’s clearly mass of recieved ideas about art. the social stuff was mentioned later but it was only a small part of the “iceburg,”</p>

<p>I took up the time to look up the author of the artist passage.</p>

<p>[Linda</a> Nochlin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Nochlin]Linda”>Linda Nochlin - Wikipedia)</p>

<p>From wikipedia:</p>

<p>“The essay, “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?,” explores possible reasons why “greatness” in artistic accomplishment has been reserved for male “geniuses” such as Michelangelo. Nochlin argues that general social expectations against women seriously pursuing art, restrictions on educating women at art academies, and “the entire romantic, elitist, individual-glorifying, and monograph-producing substructure upon which the profession of art history is based” have systematically precluded the emergence of great women artists.”</p>

<p>This should settle the debate over the answer.</p>

<p>None of these passages sound familiar to me…
I had one about Political Ideology, and I forgot the rest, I think I only had 2 passages in the entire test…</p>

<p>In the answers, there may be more than one correct answer, but the one that is the “best” is the one college board takes. The social status part was actually mentioned specifically in the passage. The full-time endeavor is an assumption that doesn’t have to be true because the passage didn’t say it. That’s why the social status one is correct.</p>

<p>What was the quesiton for the 2nd indian question?</p>

<p>Yep, exactly what I meant, but I could express it like you. thx</p>