October 2011 SAT Reading

<p>hopefully pretty good. </p>

<p>According to this pdf (and assuming this test was hard), -11 = 690</p>

<p>I think I got 6 wrong (-7) so hopefully that is 730-740</p>

<p>At the end both paragraphs invoked collective interest.</p>

<p>The author 1 was like: we are all gonna die if we don’t do something</p>

<p>The author 2 was like: we need to make more nuclear plants.</p>

<p>@classicgirll: The answer is handling. Execution does work in the context, but the correct answer has to be an actual definition of “treatment”. Execution is not an actual definition of treatment, but handling is.</p>

<p>@All: Was the collective interests one near the end of the list of questions for the nuclear passage? Thanks.</p>

<p>Is there any consensus on the first Walden question? I put scientifically appropriate but I doubt that’s right.</p>

<p>Does anyone remember the other options for the “account for a phenomenon” one?</p>

<p>Guys…don’t stress too much about the consolidated list.</p>

<p>The CR one from last May had a good 3 or 4 wrong after I checked it with the QAS</p>

<p>section reading about a man meet some old grandma is LAST YEAR’S EXPERIMENTAL section.So this actually is a real one</p>

<p>is everyone sure about “self-admonition”?</p>

<p>I’m pretty convinced that’s the answer… but I put “digression” because she had been talking about the challenges that all biographers face, and then started talking specifically about the challenges to female biographers who research political leaders…</p>

<p>OMG,I see that you guys are talking about the experimental section,busted!!!I thought you guys are only permitted to post the answer about the real section. And BTW the butterfly and the man visited old grandmas is real one</p>

<p>do the CRs for international differ from US?</p>

<p>why I only got old grandmas,double butterfly and a long passage about how our modern construction which disconnected us from the past has affected us? I got an experimental Math.</p>

<p>@nsaff94: Sentence in question: </p>

<p>“It is imperative that we be ever cautious of the danger inherent in our work: imposing our contemporary dilemmas and expectations on a generation of women who spoke a different language, moved at a different rhythm, and juggled a different set of issues and dilemmas.”</p>

<p>It is self-admonishing, which is to advise self to do or not to do something.</p>

<p>Although I know the answer to the second Walden paragraph (good and bad effects, or something similar), does anyone know what the other options were?</p>

<p>does anyone remember getting “personality” for the baker passage? it definitely makes sense since the author was more focused on illuminating her entire person rather than only her philosophy</p>

<p>no, it was POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY</p>

<p>the one about the hermandsver school one:
Fleece said the ideas were…
a) independent of human consciousness
or b) presupposed the instinctual?</p>

<p>i said B because Fleece specifically says that ideas were not like music - they existed much before. please can someone confirm?</p>

<p>what was the question with the political philosophy answer?</p>

<p>Alright, although all of you put “fundamentally human centered” for the Walden one, I’ll give you reasons why I put “scientifically oriented” (or whatever it sounded like). First, I will preface this by saying that I understand that I am probably wrong, seeing as how all of you got the same answer and you are all smart people.</p>

<p>Now… In the beginning of the passage, the author alludes to a change from an anthropocentric view to a biocentric view. In addition, the passage also mentions that Thoreau wrote increasingly scientific novels in his later life. Now, my chief evidence for “scientifically oriented” came from the second to last sentence, which went along the lines of “although we have moved to scientific whatever, we, as humans, are inclined to be interested in humans”. Ok… so now… the last sentence went along the lines of, “people are ignoring the youthful question of “How you live?” by Thoreau”.</p>

<p>Now, we already have evidence that Thoreau wrote scientific writings. I have no idea who Thoreau is and perhaps that would have led me to a correct answer. However, by the continuity of the second to last sentence and the last sentence, I reasoned that “people are ignoring the youthful question” paralleled “people are reverting back to human-oriented thinking”. Thus, I chose the scientific answer. </p>

<p>If someone can see a flaw with my reasoning (other than the fact contrary of) or maybe a detail that I flubbed, please inform me.</p>

<p>Pretty sure that one was independent of the human consciousness because Fleece said that music ideas came from the gut or something like that</p>