October 2009 SAT Critical Reading

<p>Somewhat updated list</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. Recrimination
  18. Specific … Eclectic
    19.</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. description about his thoughts on the book
30. immediately understandable? (about the mercator projection (??) )
31. novelty and diversity (Space Atlas prompt, they asked why the author chose to use a long list of words to describe the book. “Here were…”)
32.usefulness in modern technology
33. historical speculation
34. geologists - not enough level of details</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)?
41. Wry
42. discovery?
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
explaining a process
used in everyday life?</p>

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

<ol>
<li>worth to obtain</li>
<li>squandering opportunities</li>
<li>unavoidable imposition</li>
<li>Completely agree </li>
<li>Title - Feast before us</li>
</ol>

<p>It wasn’t egalitarian, it was tyrannical.</p>

<p>Also, what were the other choices for the defiant/reinforced question? That’s probably right, but I want to know the other choices so I can understand what I did wrong.</p>

<p>I put polymath as a complete guess but erased it cuz it was too random of guessing for my liking. ■■■.</p>

<p>hey can somebody tell me the other answer choices for the “novelty and diversity” question as well as number 39. steryotyped way (about the sheep story)</p>

<p>also, has 3 WRONG ever been an 800 on CR?</p>

<p>yes .</p>

<p>Can someone give me some answers? ^</p>

<p>Was the answer really historical speculation? I put new hypothesis because it seemed that the question started off focused on mercatori and then became more about the idea of earth as an exhausted ancient planet.</p>

<p>deferential/confirm and defiant/reinforce were the only possible ones you could’ve been stuck with.</p>

<p>No it was historical speculation.</p>

<p>For the egalitarian vs tyrannical speculation.
It was egalitarian.
The question was something about a country being under corrupt rule for many years but after a succesful take over it finally became a true democracy or egalitarian (fare for all.)</p>

<p>joker, the answer was supposed to be the complete opposite of a true democracy. that was pretty clear</p>

<p>I kindve don’t think historical speculation was the main point of the last sentence…</p>

<p>Most people agree with me, i think you read the question wrong. Just look back at the thread. But w/e im not gonna fight because theres nothing I can do anyway.</p>

<p>the 29th will come soon enough</p>

<p>Why would it be “The feast before us?” isnt that a more positive choice for a title, and positivity towards the first passage was not at all present in author 2’s tone or anything. i dont remember the other options but i just remember i immediately eliminated that option.</p>

<p>by the way i agree with “i took the sat,” it wasn’t egalitarian.</p>

<p>because the author was talking about how much happiness there was in the world, like a feast. Ohh by the way it was suppose to describe the title of the first paragraph.</p>

<p>it was obvious enough that there was a basis of contrast. i’d stay true to tyrannical vs. democracy</p>

<p>Wasn’t the question asking what would the author of passage 2 title passage 1 if he could?</p>

<p>@Joker23
most people do NOT agree with you about the egalitarian/tyrannical question.<br>
even so, consensus is irrelevent to the fact that egalitarianism ensures equality of citizens, and would therefore if anything by similar to a “true democracy”</p>

<p>The answer was definitely tyrannical. What i took the sat said is right.</p>

<p>Also, I’m almost positive it was historical speculation, although at the time I put new hypothesis =(</p>

<p>For the defiant/reinforced one, there was another choice with a good second word, like _____/reaffirmed, I think. Oh well, I probably got it wrong, but I don’t remember exactly what I put.</p>

<p>tyrannical is correct , & I also put “the feast before us”</p>