October 2010 CR SAT Thread

<p>@Linger: The correct answer was about the imbalance of power and how it benefited some at the expense of others. And it wasn’t a block passage from the Iliad, but Thucydides’s writing.</p>

<p>@Oscar Wilde’s piano player: I think we’ve already agreed that it was the artfully written piece with factual errors.</p>

<p>@kelley it was happiness won’t last</p>

<p>@coup i think not all the choices were mentioned in the discussion though. I’d like to see all the choices if possible…to know which one i picked.</p>

<p>Again, in jump roping passage, did anyone answer “the child imitated adults to impress his peers” instead of “the ice skater tried to fluster other skaters”? i said it was trying to “impress” others rather than “fluster”, which means to confuse or to bewilder…</p>

<p>harambee thanks!
can you do it one more time please</p>

<p>To everyone:
@Alleviate: I put benign.
@basketball1: it should be how the difference in power helps some at the expense of others
@Light Airen: …neither? :frowning: I put well-founded.
@jollybejolly: I agree 100%
@kelley0509: that was how happiness won’t last, NOT the alone one. You can quote me on this.</p>

<p>So does anyone remember that question with the alarmist and well-founded? What was the answer to that one?</p>

<p>** What do you guys think -4, -5, and -6 each will fare? **</p>

<p>@jae0191: I put he ice skating one because the jump-rope girls didn’t try to IMPRESS their opponents with their tricks; they tried to unnerve them. Unnerve = fluster –> ice skating tricks.</p>

<p>I put down fluster because in the passage, the girls were doing tricks in order to intimidate the other girls while in an ice skating competition, the skaters usually do tricks in order to show off to other skaters their true skills. The child isn’t trying to fluster his friends, but rather to impress them, unlike the girls in the passage who were trying to mess them up instead of impressing them.</p>

<p>@jae0191 the girl who was jump roping said that jump roping was a competition to see who could stay in the longest, and throwing in fancy tricks would “freak out” her friends/competition</p>

<p>I thought it was passage 1, now I’m second guessing myself.</p>

<p>@XR: Which question are you asking about?</p>

<p>@TRUFFLEPUFF: I don’t know :frowning: I got 3 wrong in March’s CR and ended up with a screwy 730. REALLY hoping the curve is better. Hopefully like -1 800 -2 800 -3 780 -4 760 -5 750 -6 740? This is an amateur guess.</p>

<p>Or it could be like March '10.</p>

<p>^^well-founded
I’m not sure what the question was, but I remember that that’s what I put as the answer.</p>

<p>The oscar wilde one… there were 5 choices and we already mentioned artful biography w/ factual errors, poem, and dancer with technical something</p>

<p>When do we find out the scores?</p>

<p>@blugblug omg…was March 2010 easy or hard?</p>

<p>the question was like what would the author of passage 2 say to the ideas of “most environmentalists”’ in passage 1. I don’t understand why it would be well-rounded since the guy in passage two is against the ideas in passage 1…</p>

<p>@TRUFFLIEPUFF: I thought so…there were like 2/3 in EACH section I was second-guessing myself on and I felt ready to cry. -3 isn’t even that bad but apparently, according to collegeboard it’s a measly 730. But people have been telling me that taking it in March is a stupid idea because the curve is super bad then, so hopefully they’re telling the truth?</p>

<p>At others: Oscar Wilde is the biography. Flair over technicality.</p>

<p>Any predictions for what a -6 would be?</p>