October 2012 SAT Discussion

<p>Critical Reading Answers:</p>

<p>1) Autonomous
2) Teasing
3) mired = stuck
4) phlegmatic
5) Mollifying
6) urbane and erudite
7) Passage 1 - response, Passage 2 - communication (ape thing)
8) Scientific implications</p>

<p>I got 1/8 too! yay :)</p>

<p>what about the 3rd to last ape one? it was like the author of passage 2 things passage 1 author is insufficiently skeptical of human uniqueness?</p>

<p>Critical reading : The man wanted to keep some details from his daughter, Yo. (That’s the answer to the sieve question)</p>

<p>Hahah that whole passage I spaces out on…</p>

<p>Thanks so much you guys.</p>

<p>Looking through these answers, I think that was the only one I missed. </p>

<p>(Although I did have a really hard math experimental section. One of the questions in said section gave you a number line with points A, B, and C- B was labeled ‘25’, and and it said x and y were the coordinates of A and B, and it asked for x+y…That WAS experimental, right?)</p>

<p>How long does it take for scores to be available online? In the mail?</p>

<p>@catchtwentythree: Realize that if x is 25-n and y is 25+n then x+y = 25-n + 25+n = 50. Alternatively, you know that 25 is the average of the two points, and their average is the sum divided by two, so the sum must be 25*2 = 50. Another way is to just try to points and see. 15 and 35 are 10 below and 10 above 25, and their sum is 50. 20 and 30 are 5 below/above and their sum is also 50. etc.</p>

<p>@s13nior I put that, too, the insufficiently skeptical answer.</p>

<p>I also got an answer like " to validate a statement".</p>

<p>I remember that one!..no it wasn’t experimental…the reflection question and that question was in the same section I believe…</p>

<p>@s13nior</p>

<p>Yea, was it “not sufficiently skeptical of human uniqueness?”
That’s what I put. I agonized over that question, too.</p>

<p>Wait, I’m confused-

  1. What was the answer to the one with the “writing class not being good” passages? The question was something like, what would they both agree on? I said that it would helpful if the students had outside experience
  2. And for the ape one-couldn’t it have been the other option? The one that was saying how passage 2 highlighted apes in general while the first passage focused only on the one ape, because in the last paragraph of passage 2 they were saying how people were like angry that apes like the ape they were talking about could be as smart as humans?</p>

<p>What is the answer to last question section 10 about hiking and throwing trash.</p>

<p>I am not sure about two vocab problems…</p>

<ol>
<li><p>Muscians manage to …a great variety of musical expressions, despite the music’s convenrtion? or rhythm?</p></li>
<li><p>The official’s record was both…and…; he missed important votes and did not lead a legislative initiative. I chose the one with scant and undistinguished.</p></li>
</ol>

<p>I don’t think that was experimental, catchtwenty, but I also had experimental so what do I know that answer was 50:
lets say x was 0 and y was 50
0+50 was 50, you can do that for any value as long as the two sides are equal like they are supposed to be:
12.5+37.5=50</p>

<p>I think the only one so far I’ve gotten wrong is the (-3,1) problem or w/e. Oh well, thx a bunch guys</p>

<p>For the proability 9/22</p>

<p>Would .40 have been an acceptable answer??? </p>

<p>Im so stupid, I thought it couldnt fit into the bar so I made into a percentage! I can’t believe I didn’t simplify it!!! All because of the time, you’re so focused on moving on to the next question</p>

<p>Are they going to mark it has correct if you translated it into a decimal instead of a fraction?</p>

<p>@Niquii</p>

<p>It WASN’T experimental? Are you serious? Because there was an impossible circle question in it, too. All it gave you was an x-y coordinate graph, an obtuse triangle, and the value of the outside of the triangle- “50.” It asked for the angle of “y.” Do you remember that question, because it was on the same section…</p>

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<p>the 2nd cr story was from julia alvarez’s book yo…ifu wanna check ur answers</p>

<p>the last one was, he requested that we not throw garbage. Need subjunctive tense here and this was the only one that worked.</p>

<p>I said they’d both agree that it is important to read works of older authors or something.</p>