October 2011 SAT Reading

<p>What was the one where you had to find the common tone of the two passages in the nuclear reactor one? I put down emphatic.</p>

<p>Escape for sure. A detour isn’t a guide lol</p>

<p>I put down escape from everyday life because he basically said that this detour comes down to helping you in everyday life, implying that art was not a part of everyday life.</p>

<p>for the Walden question:
was it A) dry and boring
…or B) long and exhausting to read?</p>

<p>I put B</p>

<p>@korean: neither of those</p>

<p>damn! I thought it was escape from everyday human nature, because I thought he liked Walden because it wasn’t as human as today’s nature books.</p>

<p>What were inference question answers for the 20 minute CR section about the biography. Just give me a few of the questions I did worse on that section because I lost my seriousness after I was laughing with a few ppl around me.</p>

<p>I put emphatic too grisam. I was thinking of disparage for a while since Passage 1 belittes nuclear energy, and passage 2 belittles coal fuel/alternative energy.</p>

<p>What was the answer to the vocab question with the choice “Pordent” in it?</p>

<p>was self-admonish one of the answers?</p>

<p>Caustic Vs. Vehement? I’m QUITE SURE that it was vehement. Vehement means impassioned/ardent, and describes EXACTLY the writer’s tone. The writer was very strongly advocating nuclear power. Caustic wouldn’t work–his tone wasn’t bitter at all.</p>

<p>For one of the questions, the answer was EMPHATIC.</p>

<p>Also, HANDLING more accurately describes the biographer’s job than does management. </p>

<p>Also, was the roommate passage about Fleece experimental?</p>

<p>@kobe: Yeah I put that when the author was like “we need to be careful not to disturb…”</p>

<p>I got self admonish too.</p>

<p>For the blogging one I got one answer about being irksome and one about being noticed. Anyone else??</p>

<p>@taconda, I agree with you.</p>

<p>No, Fleece wasn’t experimental.</p>

<p>@thekoreangirl, I definitely agree with you on the first one, and pretty certain on the second one.</p>

<p>@thekoreangirl–Yeah, I got both of those :D</p>

<p>Was the passage about Disney amusement parks experimental, then?</p>

<p>Yes, Disney was experimental.</p>

<p>^It must have been, since I had a writing experimental. </p>

<p>Speaking of writing, did your guys writing (those of you who didn’t have it experimental) have the skateboarding olympic one as the passage or something else (Forgot what)?</p>

<p>Skateboarding.</p>

<p>@grisam: yeah i had the skateboard passage, and my experimental was math. What was the purpose of Baker’s quote (something about radicalism) for the last CR passage?</p>

<p>What was the essay prompt?</p>