<p>Ok guys. I took the test in the good old USA. I had 3 Critical Reading Sections so they all counted. Here are some things I remember:</p>
<p>Sentence Completions
1. Ameliorate .. Exacerbate
2. Remuneration
3. Obstreperous
4. Iconoclast .. skewered
5. Undaunted by
6. Obstinate
7. Nuance</p>
<p>Small Paired Passage: Two views on non-traditional medicine. Questions about the proponent in Passage 1 and the Practitioner in Passage 2. Can't quite remember. Help!</p>
<p>Bigger Paired Passage: Wolves in Yellowstone Park
1. Author's tone = gently mocking
2. Coyotes returned to underdog status</p>
<p>Vandalism is freedom (ie Professor and graffiti)
1. Graffiti artists co-opted by professional artists
2. Anxious = uneasy</p>
<p>One Paragraph on an old rock
1. Author feels young
2. Thread goes to the moon and back 9 times = makes an analogy</p>
<p>One Paragraph on African Queen Mother
1. Her status is an issue that cannot be resolved
2. All scenarios are speculative</p>
<p>Girl loves Ballet
1. Steps = instruction
2. A digression (the part is parentheses about the old dilapidated conditions_ to point out a paradox
3. Fully present = engagement</p>
<p>Second Generation Chinese Guy
1. Dictionary = author's lack of understanding of Chinese
2. Riddle and Fable = Enigmatic and edifying
3. Painstaking = Arduous
4. Swatch = ignorance</p>
<p>agreed. Sucks though cause those sentence completions owned me hard.</p>
<p>I had all of those as well. All of those sound the same as my answers, except for that I said movements instead of instructions for the ballet steps question. I wasn't sure about that one, though.</p>
<p>i agree with everthing except</p>
<p>rocks reminds author of old times</p>
<p>and riddle and fable is puzzlement and fabrication</p>
<p>yea the sentence completion problems were pretty tough.</p>
<p>I agree with everything except that step should be movement. If the students are to "do" some of "those", and those should be referring to movements, not instructions. It also goes along with the context (ballet movement).</p>
<p>Also, for the dilapidated condition, why should the commentary be paradoxical? I chose disclosure leading to revelation because it reveals much about the rather financially poor situation of the old times of ballet schools....</p>
<p>^^the OP is correct about the rocks. I believe you are correct, bigweight, about the riddle fable</p>
<p>and riddle and fable is puzzlement and fabrication
^ that's what I put too.</p>
<p>The dilapidated condition thing is paradoxical because she talks about how such beautiful and moving art was practiced in a nasty run down building. I don't think that riddle and fable is puzzlement and fabrication because that's the obvious answer for those words without any context, which seems like a trick. Not positive though.</p>
<p>why should the fable be "fabrication" (made up?) Edifying ("teaching, elucidating) is a more proper contrast to the sense of enigma posed by "riddle"</p>
<p>^ Me too. The rock was to make him feel relatively young, and for "steps" I put movement. In another thread, it was also mentioned as movement.</p>
<p>To blazingfire: your argument is persuasive (which makes me nervous hehe)
But could you remember the exact phrase for the choice? I know I somewhat hesitated at that..</p>
<p>the riddle and fable one is enigmatic and edifying</p>
<p>um...is this allowed couldn't they track your IP or something? Just wanna know.</p>
<p>because a fable is false.</p>
<p>dciontary.com "fable: a story not founded on fact:"</p>
<p>YESSSS thats what i put too for the riddle&fable (puzzle..) i wasn't sure of that one. </p>
<p>and for ballet, i put movements. </p>
<p>i thought the yellowstone passage was the hardest.. was it just me?
i thought SC was okay though.</p>
<p>yea riddle and fable is puzzlement and fabrication</p>
<p>movements is right as well</p>
<p>rock makes em feel young, said so clearly in passage</p>
<p>Bigweight - a fabrication is something that is made up or false. Pretty sure the super old rock makes the author feel younger.</p>
<p>Is everyone sure that steps = movement and not instructions????</p>
<p>Here are a couple more SCs:
ABSTEMIOUS
Longevity</p>
<p>Vandal and Graffiti passage:
Notes on the fridge = absurd narrative</p>
<p>Yellowstone wasn't too hard. It was funny that so much related to Montana in W / CR.</p>
<p>But in the context of the story why should being false matter?</p>