Official October SAT Critical Reading Discussion

<p>@Darthpwner: After some consideration, I’ve conceded that the physics answer is wrong. I think I read into it and missed the right answer in my haste to finish the section. </p>

<p>Also, it’s definitely <em>not</em> approximate. 148 is an exact value. They were using the number to validate the claim that “multiples” were very common.</p>

<p>Main points from Dinosaurs passage:

  • Back in his day, dinosaurs were less cool, even though some new research came up
  • Yo Yo’s had been around for a long time, and like the dinosaurs before the commercialization in 1951, weren’t anything special
  • the author said something like “I would HOPE that it was our new research” and then goes on to shoot his hopes down
    I thought it was very clear that the author was saying it wasn’t so much the technology/research/science, but the way companies marketed the product. Didn’t the passage conclude with an example of companies marketing dinosaur stuff?</p>

<p>No,it didnt. If you recall, he said that there has always been underlying information about something but the thing that made it a craze was marketing, it even said in the last paragraph. He said that yo-you were existent in 1950 but didn’t become a hit until 1951. Why would kids care about physics discoveries? Think about this logically. Whenever something becomes a hit, it’s because of marketing. For the dinomania, it became dinomania not because of new information but because people took the opportunity to market it. He specifically said every few years somebody figures out how to make yo-you more interesting.</p>

<p>Thank goodness you’re agreeing with me kingshrey!</p>

<p>what question was ‘ideologue’ an answer to? what were the other choices?</p>

<p>@Mollified: I don’t think the “physics” answer is right anymore, but you nevertheless responded to an argument I never made. It doesn’t really matter, though. We’d have to see the question to break down the intricacies of my thought process completely.</p>

<p>Wasn’t there an option that simply said therewere more yoyos bought in 1951 than in 1950?</p>

<p>@flickor i am 100% sure that was not the answer. It was rather something like “an effect of a marketing”</p>

<p>@studiousmaximus</p>

<p>do you remember the ideologue question? I don’t remember that one and I had 4 CRs. I’m worried</p>

<p>@Meburi I agree. The answer was B, and it went something like “a new sales plan was developed”</p>

<p>and it WAS NOT idealogue, it WAS polymath (100% certain on this one). For that one Martha was proficient at physics, mathematics, chemistry, not to mention geology or something like that. So she was a true _______ and polymath is the best choice</p>

<p>I do not remember the ideologue question, no. It was probably experimental (or just a wrong answer choice).</p>

<p>The reason I ask is because I specifically remember the answer choice saying something that meant “Advertisement was invented,” not that it was used during this time period. On the other hand, there was an option that responded to the question with the answer “The amount of yo’yos bought in 1951 far exceeded that in 1950.”</p>

<p>And ideologue was the wrong answer. Correct one was polymath!</p>

<p>@divy yes, that is an answer for a different question (the one that asked u to descirbe"evidence" which th answer is insufficient) the one m talking about is what the author of passage 1 says when he states “although i went great lengths to disprove that apes are not linguistic, …” which states that he admits he was compelled to avoid taht conclusion. I am positive this is the right answer,s ry</p>

<p>@flickor i agree with polymath 100%. The word is too suitable to be wrong</p>

<p>@kryix i do believe that word was another choice along with polymath… According to my almighty memory</p>

<p>Polymath was definitely the right answer. The woman was basically the definition of a polymath.</p>

<p>Alexissmith, the question was why did the author say “I realize that some may say I just want to disprove the theory” or something along the lines of that. And that was the answer</p>

<p>For the Father and YO passage, is the first question “personal reflection”? Other choices are “lighthearted conversation” and “formal …”</p>

<p>^ Yeah, that was the first question. I chose “personal reflection.”</p>