October 2009 SAT Critical Reading

<p>I think it was intense and involuntary. None of the others made much sense.</p>

<p>the shift in narrative one was the starting of a new paragraph</p>

<p>Thank God.</p>

<p>2 questions were really confusing me in the Nikhil Passage:</p>

<ol>
<li>Introduce a shift in narrative OR new character.</li>
<li>Use of metaphor OR parallel structure</li>
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<p>Can anyone confirm the answers to these?</p>

<p>And also tell me the parents’ reaction one. I put confused.</p>

<p>any other opinions on the 2nd Native american one?
It was talking about the last sentence only, not the entire paragraph. The paragraph as a whole stated that its not the texts that make it easier to memeorize, its the side effect.</p>

<p>but the last sentence on said that they would need the good memory to participate in the ceremonies anyways, not rely on the ceremonies for help. thats why I put that you need good memory for ceremonies</p>

<p>I put shift in narrative, there was no new character. Just a different view pt.
I put paralel structure because it had like 3 sentences all started w/ “It was Nikhil”…</p>

<p>The part which confused me in the new character one was that, there can be a new character if the choice is not taken literally.</p>

<p>And can anyone tell me the question to which “grounded in” was the answer?</p>

<p>Ahsanxr</p>

<p>The music artist played rock but was grounded in blues.</p>

<p>Oh yeah, got that one correct :D</p>

<p>I think it should be distinct from blues cause the sentence was like although he is a blues artist who adds progessive rock, he therefore has a distinctive blues nature</p>

<p>so is it historical speculation or hypothesis?</p>

<p>I said speculation</p>

<p>What was the question to that?</p>

<p>i believe it was the last question. the geologist asks a question in his final sentence and there was a question on his question.</p>

<p>I also remember it being “distinct from”.</p>

<p>The question said something to the extent that</p>

<p>“Even though the artist had roots in the blues, his own songs were ____ from it.”</p>

<p>I was 27/27 on the May test SC and if the answer was “grounded in” I would be really surprised.</p>

<p>historical speculation is correct</p>

<p>for the one everyone thinks is immediately understandable, why was “mysteriously attractive” wrong? I thought the maps were super detailed and thus, not that easy to understand but instead interesting</p>

<p>cs12345: I remember that I got confused on that one but don’t remember what I put. Can anyone tell me what the other choices were and also what his question was?</p>

<p>ahsanxr- here you go</p>

<p>"Exploration, now being employed to make visible the most advanced geographies in a new age of discovery. Indeed, what might Mercator have thought were it suggested to him that his scheme would one day be used to plot landscapes so far from terrestrial in aspect as to reflect back, in their magnificent alienness, the very idea of an old and exhausted Earth? "</p>

<p>IntangibleGator: You remembered the question incorrectly. The answer is definitely grounded in.</p>

<p>I agree with Xaari. the question wasn’t like that.</p>

<p>any other opinions on the 2nd Native american one?
It was talking about the last sentence only, not the entire paragraph. The paragraph as a whole stated that its not the texts that make it easier to memeorize, its the side effect.</p>

<p>but the last sentence on said that they would need the good memory to participate in the ceremonies anyways, not rely on the ceremonies for help. thats why I put that you need good memory for ceremonies</p>

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<p>I think that we should reconsider “full time endeavor” as the answer because their “social status” prevented aristocrats and women sounds more vague, and has the same point as “full time endeavor”. Vague answers tend to be the best answers</p>

<p>Now that we have the passage
<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;
Can somebody explain why “Through some mysterious coincidence, later artists including Beccafumi, Andrea Sansovino, Andrea del Castagno, Mantegna, Zurbarfin, and Goya were all discovered in similar pastoral circumstances” is an example of wry humor.</p>