October 2011 SAT Reading

<p>Embargo is lifted! Lets go guys! What do you guys think about the CR sections this time? I got CR experimental which really freaked me out. And overall I think the curve will be easy since the test is hard :-s</p>

<p>The fictional passage about the mother asking her daughter to write her life story was from the experimental section. I know this because it had 8 sentence completions. The section with the dual passages on nuclear power also had 8 sentence completions. Since there was no other section with dual passages, the fictional mother/daughter had to be experimental and the fictional roommate passage was legit.</p>

<p>i got 4 sections of it, ugh.</p>

<p>does anyone remember the short passage about some man, and they were describing how he was meanish but seemed nice sometimes? What did you put for the question that asked how he was described (something like that</p>

<p>Can the title be changed to 2011 on this thread?</p>

<p>What did you guys get for the problem asking what it meant when the author said that “art is a detour” or something like that? This was the first long passage in the second reading section.</p>

<p>I dont remember the passage but i thought section 4 was really hard.
i had essay, math, reading, reading, reading, writing, math, math, reading, writing</p>

<p>i really hope section 4 was the experimental one</p>

<p>The art as a detour one had an answer like taking a break from everyday life.</p>

<p>^ Yeah, that’s what I put.</p>

<p>same its like a break from everyday</p>

<p>Was weariness one of the answers?</p>

<p>anyone had a problem with the Walden one??? I think i missed both questions in that passage…</p>

<p>what did u guys put for the vocab questions about the scientific research community that should stop being _____ and have better communication. I think i put something with edify and reticence. Also for the nuclear wars tone one, was it vehement? and for attitude of passage 2 to passage 1, was it that the energy usage of the more-efficient products was unjustified? and for the one for the woman biographer, it asked for what “manage” or something nearly means when it was talking about the biographer doing something with the black lady’s life and ideas. I think i put “execute” but im like 90% sure thats wrong.</p>

<p>I had the Walden one. One of the answers was that it wasn’t the way it would be teached and the other idr</p>

<p>Can remind me what the 20 minute CR section was about? </p>

<p>And was the section with the boy being an adventurer and meeting santa claus experimental?-Because that was the easiest reading passage…</p>

<p>Santa Claus was experimental.</p>

<p>20minute was about someone egalitarian woman in history, and writing a biography on her.</p>

<p>does anyone remember the questions for the walden one? im scared now since others might have missed it</p>

<p>What about vocab? I remember recondite, mercurial, reticence, assuage (as a wrong answer).</p>

<p>I had the Walden one. Both questions were hard. The second one was something like “based on people.” The first had “long and boring” (wrong), “appropriately scientific” (wrong), but I don’t remember the right answer.</p>

<p>@essay

  1. fundamental Human concept
  2. Gains and losses</p>

<p>Okay. The tone for the second paragraph of the pro-nuclear passage, I put vehement as well. More because none of the others made sense than anything else… Caustic, flippant, resigned, and sanguine all seemed implausible.</p>

<p>For the attitude of Passage two to Passage one I put that the benefits of nuclear energy outweigh any of the concerns.</p>

<p>For the biographer one, I think I struggled. For “treatment” I said managed, which I’m confident about. But some of the others were tricky.</p>