<p>I put similar. Same reason as Lioness.</p>
<p>I’ve missed 3 so far though -<em>- (2 on the prose (order and gauging interset) and Ha Jin’s languages question… I might’ve even missed the filitration question, I don’t remember answering that one - which might mean that I skipped that and put the next question’s answer on that spot instead -</em>-)</p>
<p>it was definitely dissimilar. the passage had an entire section about jin’s lack of literary elements in “A Free Life”</p>
<p>Link to the main passage: [Ha</a> Jin’s A Free Life. - Slate Magazine](<a href=“http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2007/11/portrait_of_the_artist_as_an_immigrant.html]Ha”>Ha Jin's A Free Life.)</p>
<p>I don’t remember enough from the small reviewer to find it… but the paragraph I got my information from in the passage was the second to last one. “The Wus’ life is full of dramatic eventsPingping suffers a late miscarriage, a friend’s baby is diagnosed with cancer, Nan visits his parents back in Chinabut they are presented in a tone of almost comical understatement.”</p>
<p>Didn’t the review say that Ha Jin glossed over the details and emotions of joyous life?</p>
<p>I did my worst on reading this time.
I usually get 33-34, but I totally bombed it this time -_-.
What do you guys think a -5 or -6 (I’m thinking I’ll get one of those) will be?</p>
<p>Wait, I might have found the review… [A</a> free Life by Ha Jin: Book Review - USATODAY.com](<a href=“Book Reviews, News and Best Selling Lists - USATODAY.com”>Book Reviews, News and Best Selling Lists - USATODAY.com)</p>
<p>“The picture is less powerful when Jin jolts the Wus and their neighbors with personal tragedies. Like the great joys in their lives, they’re quickly glossed over.”</p>
<p>No, the review was praising his ability to make a narrative out of those events. So maybe you read the question/answers wrong? Idk but it was definitely dissimilar.</p>
<p>Or perhaps that’s not the right review… lol sorry guys, I’m not really sure about what the review was anymore, but I’m pretty sure it was similar for the above reasoning.</p>
<p>well if youre right then i got one wrong on reading, but i still think i’d get a 33 composite.</p>
<p>Funny, I got all the ones that were discussed right. Can’t say the same for some of the others though. I found this reading section to be more dense, so I ended up a little short on time. Guessed on a few -__- </p>
<p>Any ideas for what the curve might be? On one of my p-tests in the red book has -8 as a 31, so hopefully it’ll be in that range lol.</p>
<p>I ran out of time for natural science, so I was flying through it. Sigh…</p>
<p>Anyways, do you guys know the answer to this question?</p>
<p>Why was the author’s “a free life” book different from his previous novels?
did you guys put “less structure?”
I guessed on this one. I know it definitely wasn’t “less personal”</p>
<p>I didn’t read any of the passages except for Prose. What a good strategy from macvre.
The math section I’m confident on all of them right now, just kept moving and coming back to the hard ones at the end to save time.
The Science was similar to the SAT Chem II subject test I took, thankful for that.
The English… I had about 2-3 unconfident choices I guess.</p>
<p>The writing… Hoping for a 10.</p>
<p>I feel like God was taking the test with me or something *** like I even had .5x^2 + .5x for the 1,3,6,9 series/sequence memorized randomly.</p>
<p>FOLLOW GOD.</p>
<p>To add to the debate on the dissimilar/similar question regarding outside reviewer vs. the narrator of the essay:</p>
<p>The tone of the second was awfully harsh, but the literal meaning of the words was that he “glossed over” (ignored) the tragedies. This literal meaning corresponded, at least in my view, most directly to the statement that certain literary elements were “understated.” This meant to me that it was similar, as Lioness and others have written.</p>
<p>Edit: The review wasn’t praising his ability to make a narrative out of the story. It said two things: (1) the literary style was loose, and (2) the structure of his book was not as firm as the others. This would rule out the “dissimilar” answers.</p>
<p>kim7564, I put “less structured” because the passage said “While his other works have been rigorously structured, A Free Life is loose and baggy, with episodes that lead down dead ends and digressions that amount to little.”</p>
<p>The answer for that question was pretty verbatim.</p>
<p>less structure. He called it baggy.</p>
<p>Does anyone approximately remember how many C’S were there for prose?</p>
<p>I gussed all C’s and H’s for prose lol</p>
<p>It’s really hard for us to recall how have Cs were in a passage.
In ACT, it’s hard enough getting the right answers. Most people don’t bother with getting proper partners of letters. So, sorry, but I have no idea how many Cs there were. I remember my scantron looking pretty well distributed with letters.</p>
<p>I do have some questions that I’m not uncertain about. </p>
<p>1) the question about the reviewer and the author.
They were similar in that emotions were understated.
Is that what you guys got?</p>
<p>2) What came chronologically first?
softball playoffs ended, piano lessons started, picked her piece
I think it’s picked her piece.</p>
<p>3) What was the “real” world of the kit fox.
-habitat at present time with human interation
-natural habitat unaffected by humans</p>
<p>4) Mangrove trees were most abundant in…
I think I put within 30 degrees of the equator.</p>
<p>5) Was the answer to one of the questions… “Mangroves could absorb more CO2 than any other plant”</p>
<p>1) the question about the reviewer and the author.</p>
<p>I Put understated as well.</p>
<p>2) What came chronologically first?
I chose Softball playoffs </p>
<p>3) What was the “real” world of the kit fox.</p>
<p>I put artificial habitat that was used for research purpose</p>
<p>4) Mangrove trees were most abundant in…
I put the equator as well</p>
<p>5) Was the answer to one of the questions…
I think there was an answer that was something like Mangroves have the most Carbon naturally or something.</p>
<p>@Kim
You’re right on all of them if you put natural habitat unaffected I think</p>
<p>@spaceghost
I chose softball playoffs at first since it had said she had finished with them 2 weeks before. But then it said later in the passage that she had gotten to choose her mozart piece the year before.
And ‘real’ world was the natural habitat since they were in their natural environment away from humans and urban environment that would change their behavior</p>
<p>I’m not sure if you’re right SAT. The point in using the quotes around “real” indicates that the world the foxes live in has become a hostile place intruded upon by humans. So it’s not the answer that states that the real world is the untouched place.</p>