October 2013 Sunday Test

<p>it was either C or D…
it was the only one that made sense to me…</p>

<p>Yes I agree. Trying to remember more math questions…do you remember the one with the two equal triangles in the plane? The question asked for the value of “t” (the height of the triangle).</p>

<p>I put t =3. I’m 99.99% sure that’s right. What did you put?</p>

<p>What essay prompt did you get?</p>

<p>We aren’t allowed to say explicitly. Mine involved technology. Did yours?</p>

<p>READING–</p>

<p>Sentence Completions

  1. Sanguine
  2. Nemesis
  3. Loquacious. . refractory
  4. assign. . encourage
  5. camouflage. . criticism
  6. quietude. . reverberate
  7. compile
  8. milieu
  9. reduce
  10. pernicious
  11. grumbler
  12. groundbreaker
  13. succumbing. . infestation
  14. great. . abundant
  15. chronological
  16. glut. . distinctive
  17. intricate. . ornate</p>

<p>Professor Passage:</p>

<p>1) the word “sloppy” is used to indicate that the professor wouldn’t have liked its inaccuracy
2) an artist who experiments with new methods without being worried about judgment
3) The professor spoke for 30 minutes to overcome Root’s incredulity
4) illustrate a cognitive process
5)<br>
Pluto Passage

  1. Purpose of the passage is to discuss criteria relevant to reclassification
  2. The metaphor of the merry-go-round suggests the neatness of an idea
  3. People’s attitude changes from complacency to apprehension
  4. simple most nearly means “uncomplicated”
  5. The parentheses served to clarify
  6. the purists would be considered “overly exacting”
  7. The date of Pluto’s discovery is mentioned to call attention to a long-standing distinction
  8. the knowledge obtained from studying Pluto was important to later discoveries</p>

<p>Caribbean Passage

  1. open control versus insidious influence
  2. “family” is mentioned to illustrate paradoxical ideas
  3. “We speak in Creole, think in Creole, yet hold Creole in utter contempt”: confusion
  4. A call for a reassessment</p>

<p>SHORT PASSAGES
“Fence passage”

  1. Illustrates dislike of constraints
    “Language Passage”
  2. Appreciative
  3. Outdated</p>

<p>Sentence completion
18. decline ( about robins population???)</p>

<p>Professor
5. professor pointing to chest- dramatic
6. the passage describes a relationship
7. something about having respect for something he didn’t know about?
8. something about the professor and toast- another characteristic</p>

<p>Pluto
9)was one of the answers something about celestial objects?
10) deep means fundamental?</p>

<p>on 7) about the date of Pluto’s discovery, I put something about emphasizing credibility. Was that wrong?</p>

<p>CAribbean/Creole
5) language is tenacious and dynamic
6) family is flexible and inclusive - talking about various members
7) something about the teachers when they spoke both…maybe unflattering something</p>

<p>Does anyone know where to find test questions that were on SAT last year? I espessially need the texts from CR.</p>

<p>I agree with you on all those questions, jjatty, except for the Pluto date one.</p>

<p>I didn’t put credibility–I put emphasize a long standing distinction.</p>

<p>I am almost 100% sure that’s right. In fact, I don’t remember credibility being an answer choice, so you probably are remembering wrong (I hope).</p>

<p>perfect! I think I may have missed that one question- but that’s the only one I know i missed so far…</p>

<p>DO you remember any more writing questions??? Were there any idioms I may have mised or diction errors ( wrong word used). I don’t remember any, but maybe I missed them.</p>

<p>I know there were some idiom questions., but I can’t remember what they were. There was a question where the error was a word like “to, from, on” being used incorrectly.</p>

<p>Do you remember anything from math??</p>

<p>Sentence Completions

  1. Sanguine
  2. Nemesis
  3. Loquacious. . refractory
  4. assign. . encourage
  5. camouflage. . criticism
  6. quietude. . reverberate
  7. compile
  8. milieu
  9. reduce
  10. pernicious
  11. grumbler
  12. groundbreaker
  13. succumbing. . infestation
  14. great. . abundant
  15. chronological
  16. glut. . distinctive
  17. intricate. . ornate
  18. decline</p>

<p>Professor Passage:</p>

<p>1) the word “sloppy” is used to indicate that the professor wouldn’t have liked its inaccuracy
2) an artist who experiments with new methods without being worried about judgment
3) The professor spoke for 30 minutes to overcome Root’s incredulity
4) illustrate a cognitive process
5) the professor pointed to his chest to dramatize a point
6) purpose of the passage is to describe a relationship
7) the professor respected his own intellectual limitations
8) the toaster discussion showed another characteristic of the professor
Pluto Passage

  1. Purpose of the passage is to discuss criteria relevant to reclassification
  2. The metaphor of the merry-go-round suggests the neatness of an idea
  3. People’s attitude changes from complacency to apprehension
  4. simple most nearly means “uncomplicated”
  5. The parentheses served to clarify
  6. the purists would be considered “overly exacting”
  7. The date of Pluto’s discovery is mentioned to call attention to a long-standing distinction
  8. the knowledge obtained from studying Pluto was important to later discoveries
  9. “brethren” most nearly means celestial bodies
  10. “deep” most nearly means fundamental</p>

<p>Nepotism

  1. the tone of passage 2 was emphatic and concerned
  2. the opening of passage 1 offered the practical meaning of the word nepotism
  3. “rule” most nearly meant “custom”
  4. Passage 2 would say nepotism is OK as long as the family members receive proper training for their jobs
  5. Passage 1 focuses on nepotism’s impact on business, passage 2 focuses on the individual</p>

<p>Caribbean Passage

  1. open control versus insidious influence
  2. “family” is mentioned to illustrate paradoxical ideas
  3. “We speak in Creole, think in Creole, yet hold Creole in utter contempt”: confusion
  4. A call for a reassessment
  5. Creole was tenacious and dynamic
  6. the Caribbean family was flexible and inclusive
  7. the author responded to Creole’s critics with unflattering descriptions</p>

<p>SHORT PASSAGES
“Fence passage”

  1. Illustrates dislike of constraints
    “Language Passage”
  2. the tone was appreciative
  3. Passage 2 would say Passage 1’s ideas are outdated</p>