Official March 2008 SAT CR Discussion

<p>I remember that "bellicose" was an answer choice for the short passage about Dorian writing a letter to a girl. The answer to that question was "overwrought" though.</p>

<p>haha nice, the one time where not knowing the word didnt screw me, thanks</p>

<p>quixotic was defenitely an answer.</p>

<p>abstract person was the answer as well.</p>

<p>what was the unaffected question?</p>

<p>So roughly how many could you get wrong and get a 700?</p>

<p>yeah quixotic was an answer.</p>

<p>was it abstract person, tentative hypothesis, or artificial construct? That seems to be a question that eveyone's been disagreeing on.</p>

<p>"abstraction of..." was in the question and I'm pretty sure the answer was artificial construct</p>

<p>for the quixotic, i chose either THAT or the one above it i think.</p>

<p>yeah i had a very upsetting revelation after the test when i figured out i misread the question. how ironic, you know a vocab word and you still get it wrong.</p>

<p>can someone make a consolidated list of answers, especially for the politics passage?</p>

<p>also, does anyone remember the other answer choices for the question with "gross understatement"?</p>

<p>what do people think the curve is going to be? I think -3 raw score will make 800, before it drops, so 3 wrong wouldn't make 800.</p>

<p>Brosfam: How would the author of passage one respond to the statement in passage 2, statement said something like the people were not political philosophers.</p>

<p>its gross understatement b/c the author of passage one was a staunch believer in people having no political opinion.</p>

<p>Batman09: do you know what the other answer choices were?</p>

<p>Rainforestt,
With the exception of one May administration: everyone has the same scored sections, or entirely different ones, though they are often given in different orders (still the same "test").
On the one May test, they swapped the order and content of a small handful of questions to create a slightly different test form.</p>

<p>GuitarRckr,
To find out which was experimental, figure out which type of extra section it was first, e.g. if you had 4 CR sections, it was CR, not Math or Writing. Then figure out which section is NOT on the list we are putting together here (the section of yours that other people did not have). You won't as easily find out the section number from someone else, because the same sections appear in at least two different orders on the same day.</p>

<p>What was the conclusion about the "herd" and "groupthink" one?</p>

<p>Negative connotation?</p>

<p>Why was charlie meticulous and not unruly? Wasn't the whole point of the passage about how he was unruly and how he should really change his ways?</p>

<p>i put meticulous.</p>

<p>can someone make a list of all the answers agreed upon so far?</p>

<p>Charlie was meticulous because he felt that he HAD to rake the leaves and remove rocks from the garden - "even the smallest pebble." Meticulous = paying attention to even the smallest details.</p>

<p>I'm pretty sure that question was negative connotation. The author was talking about how political scientists tended to shun studying groups in the rest of the paragraphs, so I think he included those words to show examples of words political scientists don't like to use.</p>