October 2009 SAT Critical Reading

<p>What was the answer to the Gogo/Nikhil question about how he feels when he hears other people call him Nikhil? was it “not used to hearing other people use his new name” or “it felt unnatural for them to say it”?</p>

<p>Gosh, I think I missed 7 or more questions…</p>

<p>i put unnatural for his parents to say it. not 100% positive. im wondering what others put on that question as well.</p>

<p>also, another question on the nikhil passage:
when it was referring to “after so much work, it is no work at all”
some people thought that meant that nikhil was surprised at how easily he accomplished changing his name
but i put that he felt “uneasy” about his new situation
what did others put?</p>

<p>man this thread is so pointless. everyone posts their own question without bothering to look throught the past 85 posts, which i dont blame them for. like i see the same question being argued 10 times through, on and off, and told the same answser over and over.
and what do we get? more over thinking and over analyzing on the same question, and a still debatable question</p>

<p>we should think of a more efficient way to go through this. i thought the compiled answer list was smart</p>

<p>what about the vocab question on the constructive criticism?
was your answer “quibbling” and “inapt”?</p>

<p>Keep in mind that some of the answers people agree on each SAT are wrong in this forum. The consensus sometimes is wrong.</p>

<p>I think right after it mention the tool thing (i forgot what it was called), the writer seemed surprised that a tool that was however many years old was still being used today</p>

<p>I have a question. How come the story of Giotto being discovered by Ciambue can’t be “a fabrication designed to entertain”? It was the underlying, first myth, not the subsequent “fake” ones that just “somehow” seemed to be the same as the original.</p>

<p>Guys stop arguing about the questions! I mean really this is just to get an idea of what other people put. In reality no one really knows any of the answers, we have to wait till Oct 29 anyways.</p>

<p>In order to get at least between 600 to 650, how many points am I allowed to lose ?</p>

<p>@nns91 you can miss about 17</p>

<p>Thanks, is it for 600 ? how about for 650 ?</p>

<p>you can lose about 15 points and get a 650
for a 600 around 21</p>

<p>what did u guys put for the first qn of the atlas passage? was it that he was hypothesizing what was to be expected? (answer c) or that its a general perception of the atlas? (answer a)</p>

<p>so was it historical speculation or hypothesizing for the last question</p>

<p>@ownage11: hypothesizing what was to be expected</p>

<p>@cs12345: there was no hypothesis. he asked “what would the inventor think if he saw that his product was doing these things?” he is speculating. historical speculation.</p>

<p>i took the sat- what was your opinion on the chef herbs/singer reviewing question</p>

<p>it was clearly singer reviewing. the people who chose the herb option read the question wrong. the question asked about the images he was expecting to find, NOT THE IMAGES HE DID FIND. the images he expected to find were the same, boring images that were already in his geographically experienced head. that is parallel to a singer reviewing the same old notes in a song.</p>

<p>yea but the quotes included the part where he found the images suprising</p>

<p>i don’t believe it did. i remember it asking…</p>

<p>"the author’s reaction to the anticipated images would have been similar to which of the following?</p>

<ul>
<li>a chef tasting a new herb</li>
<li>a singer reviewing yet again the same notes"</li>
</ul>

<p>well if its reaction to the “anticipated images” wouldn’t it be chef tasting herb since its the authors reaction to his anticipated images?</p>