October 2011 SAT Reading

<p>@Hobbit, different questions. Recondite was for microchip science, edify was for the scientific community explaining to the public.</p>

<p>@MitDuke - agree with you on walden - long and exhaustive</p>

<p>@NewYorkMets was that answer C or D? I think the one you picked was C</p>

<p>I picked E</p>

<p>I’m not seeing the “long and exhausting” argument for Walden. The point of bringing him up in the passage was to provide a contrast to the modern, boring works that don’t talk about humans.</p>

<p>oh ****, I chose not recondite. What were the other parts of that question Propsective?</p>

<p>Do you remember what the other answer choice was? The one that you didnt pick?</p>

<p>Walden was DEFINITELY human centered. The last sentence included a question and another detail that clearly made walded “human centered”</p>

<p>got the same collaborative answers as everyone, but for Walden I put something[aptly?] scientific because the passage talked about him exploring more scientific pieces later on and I am pretty sure the author used him as an example of what a nature journal should be. Then again, I was torn between the human choice too, but the answer didn’t make sense because he basically said our human superiority can’t understand the world around us…so why would Walden be human-centric?</p>

<p>For vocab what were the sentences?
Fickleness <– sure that this is wrong
Digress</p>

<p>But yeah cortona that’s what got me too…the last line basically explored humanity which is why human centered is most likely right…</p>

<p>how is fickleness wrong</p>

<p>what was the recondite sentence?</p>

<p>thanks</p>

<p>i have zero memory…</p>

<p>No, it is fickleness. something like him changing alliances with his friends annoyed them.</p>

<p>@jd I don’t remember, what was the question? I knew every single word that appeared today and normally I get perfect vocab; I remember seeing the word and I think I didn’t pick it.</p>

<p>edit:
@nostalgicwisdom: Thanks, i remember now, I put the answer as blundering. I put that because it typically means to move or act without direction. Fickle seems to be the better fit though because blundering is mostly a mistake. I see what I did wrong.</p>

<p>Jordan’s friends were annoyed by his ______ ; his alliance with them was always changing.</p>

<p>I think fickleness is correct. Also, my wording is way off but the gist of the recondite question was: “Microchip science is ____; it is hard to understand unless you are a scientist”</p>

<p>the recondite was the one about fiber-optics, i can’t remember the exact sentence but it was something that few could understand.</p>

<p>@Subsidize
it was about fiber optics, not microchips.</p>

<p>41/48 of the Sentence Completion recorded. It would give me peace of mind if we could figure out the other seven.</p>