October 2009 SAT Critical Reading

<p>Guys, is the question that includes the answer “synthesize…crystallize…” also has an answer " compromise…coalesce…“?? and the answer is " synthesize…”? Because i put “compromise…” and i remember it’s quite resonable</p>

<p>Compromise in this case has a negative connotation, meaning leaving some things out</p>

<p>Hey guys! OK im pretty sure I had the blue cover for my SAT which means that my fourth section was experimental. Does anyone remember which one it was??? MATH?? CR??</p>

<p>alright im sorry to keep coming back to this novelty and diversity question but can somebody PLEASE tell me the other choices. im hovering at 2/3 wrong overall and have no idea why i cant remember this one. im starting to worry that i might have skipped this one entirely which would RUIN my score entirely.</p>

<p>HELP!!!</p>

<p>also has anybody posted the geologist passage on here. i kind of want to take another look at it…</p>

<p>Does anybody please remember what number “surprised that his work was done” question was? its either 13 or 14(first or second question in the long passage) please answer if you still remember!</p>

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<p>Definitely explain a reaction.</p>

<p>One sentence was like “Her parents were puzzled.” The next sentence went on to explain why the parents were puzzled: most of the daughters of the other parents had taken one route, while little Susie took another. The parents were by no means critical of their daughter, just puzzled that she wasn’t like her friends.</p>

<p>oh my God, wow, i just realized how easy that question was if i actually understood the sentence after “her parents were puzzled.” damn it damn it damn it. oh well, you win some you lose some. hopefully i’m still in the 750 range.</p>

<p>jamesford, what are you looking to score? 2400?</p>

<p>Im still unclear about the women in arts question with answers such as “fabricated story meant for entertainment” and “steryotyped story” or something like that. it seems the consensus is on the steryotyped story, but I think the fact that the article describes the story as a “fairy-tale” lends itself to the conclusion that it was indeed fabricated. anyone agree?</p>

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<p>That’s my goal, but it’s up in the air right now.</p>

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<p>I don’t think the stories were intended for entertainment. Besides, the passage talked about how all the great artists were supposedly discovered: in the midst of rustic circumstances, a master comes upon the young prodigy, etc. These stories had taken on a settled form so it’s appropriate to describe them as “stereotyped.”</p>

<p>recrimination
slapstick</p>

<p>do you guys remember putting those as answers?</p>

<p>what about the question about the authors tone towards the artist from sheep myth</p>

<p>like uh</p>

<p>the choices were</p>

<p>puzzled
inquisitive
(something totally not it)
accusatory
wry</p>

<p>what did you guys put?</p>

<p>also, the astronomy article, the last sentence was to provide historical speculation about mercer right</p>

<p>same with me, but the critical reading isn’t happening. pm me on the 29th with your score, good luck</p>

<p>recrimination and slapstick sound right</p>

<p>The author’s tone was wry. She was humorously making fun of the conventional way that artistic prodigies were supposed discovered, and one definition of wry is “disdainfully ironic or amusing.”</p>

<p>historical speculation</p>

<p>i remember “explain a reaction” somewhere. could anyone help me with the other options?</p>

<p>alright jamesford your argument makes sense, but im still gonna hold onto what little hope i have. (that would be my third one wrong)</p>

<p>If you mean the “wry” question, then you’d better face it, because it’s definitely wry. I have quite a lot of wrong answers (8-10 i guess) but mostly because I really didnt know what they meant.(like polymath, hobble…) so I’m satisfied. I think that anything over 600 is very good for someone whose native language is not english.</p>

<p>Does anybody remember what number “surprised that his work was done” question was? it’s either 13 or 14(1st or 2nd question on the long passage) please answer if you do remember!</p>

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<p>agreed .</p>

<p>hey for the women and arts question with the “idealized narrative with stereotypical details” does anybody remember if the question was specifically referring to the initial discovery of giotto or the one with michaelangelo later on. i feel like it was with giotto but im not positive</p>

<p>oron- yea i remember that question</p>

<p>about gogol, nikhail</p>

<p>i think</p>

<p>that sounds like a choice i would’ve put but what were the other ones?</p>

<p>does anyone remember a question about that passage, about what exactly gogol felt when “sometimes a strange sensation would climb up his front teeth”</p>

<p>and the last question, he was embarrassed by the mess he made right</p>

<p>also, does anybody remember a question containing the word decode(sentence completion)</p>

<p>it was either choice A- a choice starting with r
or B-Decode</p>

<p>the rest of the choices were nonsense</p>

<p>the thing that surprised the astronomy author the msot was that
the mercer experiment can be used in modern science right?</p>