Official May Sat Critical Reading Discussion

<p>Its Y^2 K1Zuna. Chones missing the point that xy has to be inversely proportional. and its asking wat's directly proportional to 1/X^2 not wats directly proportional to X. </p>

<p>If you used chone's equation you get 1/Y^2=1/X^2 right? but that's not an inversely proportional relationship, thats a directly proportional. If you want to check just make 1/Y^2=a and 1/X^2=b .<br>
you end up with ak=bk (a=bk by definition) and chone stated himself that that is a directly proportional relationship, not an inverse one.</p>

<p>it's funny cause chone called us stupid</p>

<p>I had 4 math sections, the following were not experimental:</p>

<p>Yawning
Factory-Settlers into North America
Black Girl who likes reading</p>

<p>I thought the yawning paragraph was argumentive, informational just seemed to generic/easy. The majority of the passage did debunk the idea of yawning=sleepiness, then proposed an alternative based on the faults of yawning. </p>

<p>Questions:
How did the shoptellers view the factory workers?
What would the two authors in the Ice/Crossing Atlantic agree on?
In the one about the girl who likes to write/draw, what was the point of saying she wanted to "be a renisance artist".
Anyone remmember the anchorman answers?</p>

<p>I thought the yawning paragraph was argumentive, informational just seemed to generic/easy. The majority of the passage did debunk the idea of yawning=sleepiness, then proposed an alternative based on the faults of yawning.</p>

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<p>I said informative. I don't do any of the is it too easy/too hard ********, i just go with the right answer...</p>

<p>Questions:
How did the shoptellers view the factory workers?
dismissive</p>

<p>What would the two authors in the Ice/Crossing Atlantic agree on?
it was hard to cross a land bridge during the ice age</p>

<p>In the one about the girl who likes to write/draw, what was the point of saying she wanted to "be a renisance artist".
this is the one i got wrong, agght. the right answer was naive/grandiose</p>

<p>Anyone remmember the anchorman answers?
the journalism stuff?</p>

<p>the journalism questions were quite hard...</p>

<p>yeah they were
the one comparing the two, i forget what the options were and what i chose, but it was a tough one for sure</p>

<p>what did you guys put for the question in the library passage that was like...why did the author quote little women?? the choices were like...the impact of a sudden decision..etcetc. im not quite sure...</p>

<p>oh my. i put the impact of a sudden decision
but i'm guessing it's wrong. D=</p>

<p>Hey, believe me, I got over 750 every time with practice test(blue book)..</p>

<p>anchorman was the (E), I think.. </p>

<p>The question is like this</p>

<p>What evidence could support the passage 1.
(e) anchorman something found in 15,000 BC( I suppose this one makes only sense)</p>

<p>I don't think I have specific problems in finishing off the question, but does anyone remember the yawning question that </p>

<p>The author states "in other instances" for what meaning?
(a) people intentionally do avoid their sleepiness(something I didnt choose for an answer)
(b) may misjudge their sleepiness( I don't remember exactly about theses question format, but well, I didn't choose this for an answer)
(c) I don't remember
(d) I think I choose this one or (c) because I definitely erase (a) and (b) from my head, at that time.</p>

<p>weird that I can't remember the right answer, while remembering the wrong answer(I am not sure, though)</p>

<p>so, does anyone remember about this question??</p>

<p>I put the dramatic effects the book had on its reader or somethign like that.</p>

<p>The journalism paragraphs were contrasting right? The first one advocated a change while the second one said it was bad/contradictary? I know I got the one about the purpose of the final sentence in paragraph two showign irony. what about the one asking:</p>

<p>How would the second author view the reforms stated in paragraph 1</p>

<p>In the yawning question, the author states the coffee because?
I thought it was because it was a inappropriate behavior. The author seemed to already know that the action was not normal (ruling out a unexpected gesture) because he states " he dranked coffee and I knew he was too nervous blah blah blah"</p>

<p>I remember that question but I need to see more of the answers to remember what I picked...</p>

<p>How bout the question of the girl in the library
When the girl touched Africa on the globe what memories came back into her head?
Whas it A. America's social struggle with civil rights
or E. The impact of African politics on Americans</p>

<p>I chose A</p>

<p>said nothing about african politics
i chose A as well</p>

<p>question about the yawning passage, one of the questions is, "the purpose of the dashed comments are" and i chose "to define the term" but i was thinking about "to make a humorous aside" wasn't sure which one</p>

<p>, just reminding of civil rights movement.
I suppose (a) is correct, though, I don't know the exact alphabet..</p>

<p>defining term is right one, the author doesn't suggest anything like humorous..</p>

<p>hey, what about the "scientist's originally thought'" </p>

<p>I chose (a) because all of the answer choices just support the original thought, but the question asks the contradicting info...</p>

<p>what about it??</p>

<p>i found it to be humorous.
oh well. guess the author decided to define yawn.</p>

<p>i said it was humourous for the mere fact that the author was like...saying what yawning is in a sarcastic way. "the act of opneing your mouth and inhaling air in" </p>

<p>i laughed when i saw that. i mean..who here does not know what yawning mean. exactly. everyone know what yawning mean..so why would the author even define it? i say it is humours. dry humor</p>

<p>well, the author does not use any metaphor to laugh you, and scientific defining is correct for inhaling the air in. I become more objective when reading the question, because yawning does not imply anything funny, and this is informative passage, so that the author hardly uses his wit in this writing. And, there is no other words that could have described something funny, and the information that has been presented right after the defining, surely does not include anything funny. The author just describes the yawning. There is NO implication about the assumption that the author "could have" used this illustration to make the readers funny,, and, I am perfectly sure of this..I didn't read the passage, just look for the question, and the referred lines. </p>

<p>By the way, you made serious mistake on making assumption about including your own thinking in reading. I just check the answer as logically and as objectivly as possible..</p>

<p>If he has been sarcastic, the general tone couldn't have been informative, and no one denies that the tone is argumentative for this passage.</p>

<p>And, no offence meant =)</p>

<p>Yeah...for cr I think you just need to suspend all belief/assumptions while reading the passage and then the right answers kinda jump out. I used to think some of the questions were so ambiguous but as long as you don't rely on outside knowledge the right answers are pretty clear.</p>