October 2009 SAT Critical Reading

<p>I chose “adorable” anyway…</p>

<p>the answer was valuable im pretty sure if i remember right</p>

<p>I second the above poster, I can’t remember what followed “jeering…”, though for mocking, it was “mock conventional biographies of artists”.</p>

<p>I chose “historical speculation” because the author was speculating about the past, i.e. what a certain inventor would have said had he known something something. The reason I didn’t pick “novel hypothesis”, which was the only other likely one was because a. a hypothesis is an assumption, the author didn’t really make an assumption in the question, and even if he did, there’s no evidence to support that it was “novel”. I’m not entirely sure though, I agonized over this one a LOT.</p>

<p>i think it might have said something like jeering at the supposed finding or something like that</p>

<p>Which CR section was experimental? Have we decided?</p>

<p>I found the geology passage if anyone wants to use it to confirm their answers.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/catalogs/dlg_show_excerpt.php?id=1269&title=The+Moon+and+the+Western+Imagination&subtitle=&author=Scott+L.+Montgomery[/url]”>http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/catalogs/dlg_show_excerpt.php?id=1269&title=The+Moon+and+the+Western+Imagination&subtitle=&author=Scott+L.+Montgomery&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>ENCOUNTER WITH A NEW UNIVERSE</p>

<p>Not long ago, while browsing a secondhand bookstore, I came across a volume entitled The New Atlas of the Universe, written in 1988 by the well-known popularizer of astronomy, Patrick Moore. The title of this handsome work, I admit, took me aback. Could it be true that the entire cosmos had really been probed, explored, mapped-and updated? But the book turned out to be far less than this, and therefore, in many ways, far more interesting. It was, in fact, an atlas of the solar system (a somewhat provincial version of “the universe”), consisting mainly of detailed images and maps of the planets and their moons, along with respective lists of surface features recently identified by various spacecraft.</p>

<p>This might sound rather humdrum. Yet another view of Jupiter’s giant red spot? One more close-up of Saturn’s auroral rings? Mars, as we know it so well, still a rusty, windswept, and boulder-strewn surface? Such was the visual chorus I expected to find, a coda of images tantamount to photographic clich</p>

<p>Can anyone elaborate on the “partially agree vs. absolutely agree” question?
because I put partially agree with 100% confidence…</p>

<p>complete agreement</p>

<p>does anybody remember other answer choices for the immediately understandable one other than artificially enhanced? please answer if you do!</p>

<p>what is the choice “genius is not specific to a type of people” is about? I don’t remember the question…</p>

<p>Just looked through this thread. For “the part of the Mercador technique that most interested the geologist…”</p>

<p>Did no one put the fact that it originated in the colonial era 400 years ago? That was the answer I chose. It seems to have strong and direct support in the text: </p>

<p>“This, too, seemed interesting: a technique literally four hundred years old invented at the height of the early colonial era, the Age of Exploration, now being employed to make visible the most advanced geographies in a new age of discovery.”</p>

<p>He comments directly on how interesting it is that a technique literally 400 years old is now being used to plot advanced geographies.</p>

<p>complete agreement</p>

<p>the thing they asked what Passage 1’s author would think of was the “argument” that was listed only in line one. the argument was if you take advantage of what was in front of you, you would be in bliss–and that’s all there was to that argument. there’s nothing in those two lines that contradicts passage 1 author’s argument. therefore, complete agreement</p>

<p>to luminozz:I agree with you.It doesn’t highlight the usefulness of modern tech,that’s a little bit off</p>

<p>Oh no…I think it might actually be chef tasting new herb.</p>

<p>OH NO! And it’s almost definitely historical speculation, but I put novel hypothesis, because I didn’t really read most of that paragraph b/c I didn’t have time.</p>

<p>Do you guys think the CR curve will be good? This was the hardest one I’ve taken. Could -3 still be 800? Because I really want 730-ish and I think I got 5 or more wrong.</p>

<p>The SAT passage was edited and some sentences were not included on the exam. Which question are you talking about now?</p>

<p>can anyone give me a composed list of answers?</p>

<p>Is anybody emailing collegeboard to void a question? Are you even allowed to do that?</p>

<p>If they void a question, what happens to the curve?</p>

<p>Again, does anyone remember what was the question to “squandering opportunities”?</p>

<p>I put historical because it doesn’t say a thing about modern technology only geography…</p>

<p>someone post the list of answers and the ones that are being debated please</p>