<p>At jd989898:</p>
<p>Math: probably 680- 690
Reading: probably 700- 710</p>
<p>was the answer parody or taunt… ?</p>
<p>vehement/Caustic paragraph:</p>
<p>The consequences aren’t pretty. Burning coal and other fossil fuels is driving climate change, which is blamed for everything from western forest fires and Florida hurricanes to melting polar ice sheets and flooded Himalayan hamlets. On top of that, coal-burning electric power plants have fouled the air with enough heavy metals and other noxious pollutants to cause 15,000 premature deaths annually in the US alone, according to a Harvard School of Public Health study. Believe it or not, a coal-fired plant releases 100 times more radioactive material than an equivalent nuclear reactor - right into the air, too, not into some carefully guarded storage site. (And, by the way, more than 5,200 Chinese coal miners perished in accidents last year.)</p>
<p>parody implies you are mocking something… you don’t have enough knowledge to know what they were mocking, it’s just a taunt</p>
<p>The answer was taunt. The reference to your ideas are in your navel wasn’t a parody, it was a criticism.</p>
<p>Honestly I’m gonna have to go with Caustic, even though I put down vehement. Caustic means “severely critical”, while vehement means “passionate, intense”. Sure, the cold hard facts that he rattles off may make him SOUND passionate, but in reality he is merely giving us a laundry list of facts which are severely critical of fossil fuels.</p>
<p>Okay, I totally think that paragraph is vehement. There’s no way you can tell it’s being caustic. Caustic is too much. </p>
<p>And I definitely thought it was “resigned” because of this:</p>
<p>Burning hydrocarbons is a luxury that a planet with 6 billion energy-hungry souls can’t afford. There’s only one sane, practical alternative: nuclear power.</p>
<p>But that doesn’t mean resigned: to accept that something undesirable cannot be avoided.</p>
<p>Anyways.</p>
<p>Caustic: Severely Critical, slightly sarcastic</p>
<p>Vehement: passionate, intense</p>
<p>“coal-burning electric power plants have fouled the air with enough heavy metals and other noxious pollutants to cause 15,000 premature deaths annually in the US alone,”</p>
<p>"Believe it or not, a coal-fired plant releases 100 times more radioactive material than an equivalent nuclear reactor - right into the air, too, not into some carefully guarded storage site. (And, by the way, more than 5,200 Chinese coal miners perished in accidents last year.) "</p>
<p>That is DEFINITELY severely critical and even a bit sarcastic “not into some carefully guarded storage site.”</p>
<p>^Exactly what I was thinking. “The consequences aren’t pretty” has a sarcastic tone too, so now I’m 99% sure it’s caustic.</p>
<p>I said vehement but you guys sold me on caustic. -1 should still be 800 though</p>
<p>was it repentant or disappointment</p>
<p>If the whole paragraph was what was on the SAT, then yea it is most likely caustic…but I just don’t recall the last few lines on there…the passage seemed much less harsh upon reading that than it does now. I guess all we can do it wait and see for the QAS to arrive if they changed it up or if they didn’t…because a lot of 750+ test-takers missed that then and that’s frankly a bit unprecedented</p>
<p>can anyone tell me the question of Self-admonition?
it’s a question of the article “biography”</p>
<p>Is there an updated list on all the answers?</p>
<p>Simonl, the author was like since I’m a black female people might criticize me of having a connection with who i’m writing the biography for. She was criticizing herself to have more credibility with her task</p>
<p>yeah can anyone list the answers to all the SC’s?</p>
<p>^ some that i got are</p>
<p>mercurial
countenance (possibly experimental)
lassitude…fix (possibly experimental)
poisonous…deadly
viscuous (possibly experimental)</p>
<p>From previous post:</p>
<ol>
<li>Clever debater even the opponents praised him</li>
<li>Advanced ages: longevity</li>
<li>Scientists: edify…reticence</li>
<li>Ameliorate social injustice</li>
<li>Faculty….Emotion</li>
<li>Exacerbate</li>
<li>Recondite</li>
<li>Compelling…formulaic</li>
<li>Mercurial</li>
<li>Fickleness</li>
<li>Rebutted</li>
<li>Digress</li>
<li>Poisonous/deadly</li>
</ol>
<p>@SheepGetKilled</p>
<p>I think the answer is parody and not taunt. I felt like he was from some degree making fun of the author, and how he acted out and all that. So I think taunt might be a bit to extreme, so I second parody.</p>
<p>Oh my God I only got three sentence completions wrong!!! :D</p>
<p>I got every SC right, and hopefully only 5 passage Qs wrong. Crossing my fingers for a 720+</p>