October 2012 SAT Discussion

<p>@avb1194 are you sure you’re wrong? i was so not confident about my answer but I put subversive…</p>

<p>elucidate- some deep sea monsters to ___ imagination- blah blah the ___ between these creatures and normal ones. sorry i couldnt be more explicit haha but i think the answer was defy/disparity. i wasnt sure about disparity so i put elucidate, too.
yes the whale one was 1/8 it was 40/320!</p>

<p>Let’s talk about short passages !
Do you guys remember what we had for short passages ?
All I can remember right now is something about women’s suffrage.</p>

<p>I’m pretty sure the elucidate one’s answer started with “defies”</p>

<p>@yummymushrooms @anysky actually i don’t agree with subversive…the way the passage presented the alphabet was that the tradition of oral stories was already established, so it seemed like a written alphabet would be completely unnecessary, but not a threat to the tradition itself… can you explain why you put subversive?</p>

<p>did you guys put whereas or however for the last one? At first I thought however was right but however is not a conjunction and it seperated two full sentences without a semicolon so i put whereas</p>

<p>avb1194 Oh, I interpreted the passage in different way. Since the tradition was already established, the poets opposed to change the tradition.
Let’s admit this, that is at least level 4/5 question haha .</p>

<p>i put subversive because i felt that the writing threatened the oral tradition, since the bards were so against it. I think i read about it somewhere in the passage. And i thought that general tone towards writing was hostile instead of just bored or annoyed.</p>

<p>i think it was superfluous too. i put subversive cuz i wasnt sure what it meant, but superfluous works cuz they didnt feel a written language was necessary, therefore superfluous. they didnt mention anything regarding govt…</p>

<p>Guys help me with short passage. I cannot remember anything other than women’s suffrage.</p>

<p>@ underwater it was whereas.</p>

<p>@ avb I put subversive because somewhere it mentioned how the elite were used to oral and the alphabet seemed to threaten them…but yeah superfluous makes much more sense</p>

<p>also lol at “the elite were used to oral”</p>

<p>did you guys put whereas or however for the last question in section 10? At first I thought however was right but however is not a conjunction and it seperated two full sentences without a semicolon so i put whereas</p>

<p>I don’t think the first paragraph hinted at subversive.</p>

<p>It mentioned how the elites used oral traditions, but it never suggested writing as a threat to their power. It said how in general, even the public didn’t like it.</p>

<p>Or— (forgot the word), was the second best fit, but that meant oppressed and such, and did not fit.</p>

<p>Superfluous just seemed like a good fit all-around.</p>

<p>It’s superfluous for sure. Oh and I put baffles/enmity. Upon rethinking it, seems like a dumb answer, but idk??</p>

<p>Mind baffled by the extent of enmity between upper and low creatures.</p>

<p>Do you guys remember any questions for primate learning english one ?</p>

<p>did you guys say that the italicized memory of the teachers old questions were to establish the teachers eccentric character or to think of a vague recollection</p>

<p>@underwaterboy95 ‘whereas’ made the most sense</p>

<p>and did anyone get static for an answer</p>

<p>@thenexus how would scientists know about the enmity between those creatures? it didnt hint at such “hatred” in the sentence… /:</p>

<p>It was whereas. However requires a semicolon and then a comma. There was no semicolon.</p>