<p>@naomikt LOL</p>
<p>I was torn between desirable and inevitable, but the question asked was asking for the tone specifically in lines____ which included surely. That’s why I put inevitable.</p>
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I thought it was fairly hard. Most of the questions that have been debated so far have come from that section, so my guess is that it was hard</p>
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1.Decorum…
2.prolific…trenchant
3.retiring…penchant
4.slovenly
5.ecletic
6.unremitting
7.mudslinging
8.permeate
----(removed decorum, because it was a duplicate)
10.traversing…wealth
11.reconciliating…enmity
12.benign
13.illicit
14.thriving…harsh
15.misnomer
16.circumspect…erroneously
17.downplay…magnitude
18.wasted</p>
<p>I swear that for the one asking about the tone of the writer, it was talking about passage 2. It said something like unlike the author of passage 1 the author of passage 2 …
Besides if this was about passage one the majority of the questions were focused on that passage, and usually in the SAT, they like to incorporate both passages.</p>
<p>Goodness Boston. Apparently this is getting personal. o__O Really though, think tone and diction. Those are two REAL things that you need to know to “read the author’s mind” as I guess I did. (Wow I’m so impressed with myself).
I’m not going to argue with you anymore. We will find out who is right in 2 1/2 weeks. 
Btw, the Rewilding article was posted earlier on this thread for anyone who is interested and likes to look through 500 pages.</p>
<p>And late reply:</p>
<p>sigh. collegeboard had a lot of weird questions on this test, it’s not even funny. are you guys going to send letters to them?
^^ WE SHOULD DO THIS! EVERYONE ON CC SHOULD SEND A LETTER MENTIONING THE PROBABLY VS. PROBABLY NOT QUESTION. 
Hahaha.</p>
<p>Ok, so we had 4 choices that were just wrong, and 1 that was MAYBE not supported directly (probably was). Either complain (my euphemism for cry) to CB or accept the answer.<br>
Why was inevitable wrong? As pointed out for the twenty thousand three hundred sixty third times in this thread, inevitable is an extreme choice and is contradicted by the whole passage saying it was avoidable using the other method.</p>
<p>Can anyone clarify the 2 authors previously mentioned in the Kael critic question?</p>
<p>I put her supposed innovations could be traced to other authors…</p>
<p>^Both answers probably & probably not were supported if you read it through again. Really, the problem is the ambiguous wording of “plausible”. I picked probably, fyi. And I was sure of that until I reread the passage.</p>
<p>oh wow. the answer to the passage about the mother and her daughter one was “conviction.” i didn’t know what the word meant =/…i guess vocab really does matter…i studied so many vocab words but not that one lol</p>
<p>Inevitable would imply that there is nothing that people could do to stop it though. I also thought that it was also refering to a “default senario,” which is what would happen if we didn’t do anything to fix it. The author is against seeing all the large mammals die out, so a country filled with weeds and pests would be very undesirable to him.</p>
<p>they better make -4 still 800. they ****ing better.</p>
<p>i put inevitable. But i can see the answer is undesirable. IT makes so much sense now.</p>
<p>Hahaha, Trufflie. Does that ever occur?
I think I have -3 including probably happened, but I have a feeling that I probably made a silly mistake on at least one other problem and didn’t remember.</p>
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Lol. -4 will be like 750 or 760.</p>
<p>this CR section was one of the hardest due to the vocab
^
really? I thought the vocab was unusually easy. decorum, prolific, retiring, penchant, slovenly, eclectic, unremitting, mudslinging, permeate, traversing, wealth, reconciliating, enmity, benign, illicit, thriving, harsh, misnomer, circumspect, erroneously, downplay, magnitude, wasted… all words I would have known even if I hadn’t done any vocab study. Only one my vocab studying helped me with is trenchant. Of those ^ only decorum and prolific aren’t pretty basic, imo.</p>
<p>inevitable/undesirable:</p>
<p>If I remember correctly, the question was what would the author think about the conditions described in the lines which talk about extinction, gross swamps or whatever. Those conditions are undesirable. As to “reading the authors mind”–I read it as extremely obvious that the author did not want that to happen… that’s why he was encouraging rewilding in order to prevent it.</p>
<p>If there is a possible solution, it is not inevitable. The “default future” is the extinction–the word default implies that if actions are taken, it will not happen. The author offers a plan of action that will create a solution.</p>
<p>The inevitable people are confusing “it is inevitable that if we do nothing, extinction will happen” (this is the surely) with “it is inevitable that extinction will happen.”</p>
<p>This was by far the hardest CR I’ve seen, including the 10 practice tests on college board. </p>
<p>Especially if you got the experimental one… Football and someone named Alice? Probably the hardest SAT section I’ve ever done. I was panicking until I found out that it was my experimental section. Thank god… that would have been at least -3 or -4 just on that section. </p>
<p>And do they make the bell curve before or after the scores are in? I always figured it was after, when they had all the results, but someone said that they did it before. I hope its after so that this CR gets a major bell curve… -3 should still be an 800.</p>
<p>I read it as extremely obvious that the author did not want that to happen… that’s why he was encouraging rewilding in order to prevent it.
^thanks for the back-up, hahaha.</p>
<p>& guys, the vocab was not hard. Anyone who took the test back in June remembers…THAT vocab was hard. I got like -3 in SC alone. It was horrible. This one I got -1 only because I was idiotic and over thought the prolific one.</p>
<p>Alice was experimental?</p>
<p>after reading through all this I’m still not sure what the experimental was… lol
I know I had CR exp and that the basset hound was exp but I don’t even remember the football…
I guess the practice test I took the day before and this one are blending together (bad idea).</p>
<p>Yeah, I had undesirable for that one. The entire passage was about saving the environment, preventing the “default scenario,” and using more creative methods in order to prevent that default scenario. The entire passage was arguing on how to make that scenario NOT inevitable… so obviously it was pretty undesirable. I have no idea what Boston is talking about. I love when people try so hard to argue their answer, even in face of perfectly logical counter arguments. College Board doesn’t read this, it’s not like they’re going to change the answer… this isn’t class where you can argue for points :)</p>