<p>What was the answer to like number 23? The question before the question whose answer was “collective opinion”</p>
<p>@Notanengineer: I can somewhat see how that’s not caustic them, but how is that vehement? At least from where I stand, vehement seems more wrong than caustic, because the narrator was critical of coal. However, in the context of the second passage, he didn’t sound very passionate about the use of nuclear power.</p>
<p>^ Vehement means intensely and passionately critical, which from my view, seems more correct than the sarcastic edge that “caustic” has along with it</p>
<p>Vehement implies strong, passionate emotions, which I feel were clearly exhibited in the passage. And was the question concerning the tone of passage 1 or passage 2?</p>
<p>In my point of view at least, he wasn’t very passionate in his criticism of coal. He was more like “ew this sucks guys stop it” rather than “WE HAVE TO STOP THIS NOW OR THE WORLD IS GOING TO END.” The former to me is caustic; the latter is vehement.</p>
<p>Wait, can you guys explain why the nuclear power section wasn’t experimental? There was another passage just like it, and section 2 has been the experimental section before</p>
<p>We get our scores back in three weeks right?</p>
<p>Because people who had four sections of math (or maybe even writing? I don’t know if thye have experimental writing sections) also had the nuclear passage.</p>
<p>It was not experimental because I had it and I also had a section about dating. The dating was experimental therefore nuclear was not.</p>
<p>@TheJuanSoto: you can check online in 18 days.</p>
<p>idksilly, I think you’re overthinking it, if the answer was caustic, the CB would not be so subtle with the sarcastic part, it would be more obvious that the quote was sarcastic.</p>
<p>nwang95, everyone had it, so it wasn’t experimental? I had an experimental about Disney theme park that had a final question Which of the following is correct? I. Dirty II. Phony III. Tough-looking a. I only b. II only c. III only … so that was my experimental and I had the nuclear passage for sure.</p>
<p>@VermilionWaves: Am I? Ahh… I knew the definition of caustic was severely critical /or/ sarcastic, so I was hoping they only wanted the latter and not the former. >: And i was hoping to do well this time too.
I’ve gotten about 4-5 wrong (I think) according to the Critical Reading answer compilation. Praying that’s around a 750.</p>
<p>@idkskilly. Thanks.</p>
<p>Also for the weird room mate one I put he was taunting because he was telling the guy to come at him. Plus, the guy didn’t really say much stuff for the roomate to mock him.</p>
<p>That room mate was just too weird.</p>
<p>Did anyone put “iconoclast” as an answer to a vocab question, or was that experimental?</p>
<p>@Joe: I don’t even remember reading that word. I think it was probably an experimental section - a word that odd would’ve stuck with me.</p>
<p>Iconoclast means attacking traditions or beliefs and it wasn’t on mine.</p>
<p>yes it was the correct answer in context, but it was experimental. I know half the country would’ve missed that one.</p>
<p>im pretty sure there’s going to be a good curve b/c the reading passages were pretty difficult. the nuclear power, nature writing, and weird roomate all tripped me up.</p>
<p>@idksilly and vermillion waves-- thanks, i thought taht section was incredibly difficult…</p>
<p>The reason why the answer is vehement is this: you cannot deny the fact that the author was passionate and intense (vehement), however, you cannot conclude that the autor was SEVERELY critical (caustic). There would have to be some other type of retaliation to confirm this and the passage really didnt provide anything more than strong but controlled emotions.</p>