Official October SAT Critical Reading Discussion

<p>i put fixed = static</p>

<p>Static is the answer</p>

<p>fixed = static;
what’s the question with the answer “readily willing to challenge preconceived notions”?</p>

<p>Same question: what is “readily willing to challenge preconceived notions”?</p>

<p>^ “insufficiently skeptical of human uniqueness.”</p>

<p>4 from the list on the main thread that i don’t think areon this one:</p>

<p>social inequality can change government (women’s suffrage)
Homer wanted to make it flow
dino-man was belittled by his classmates
utilized</p>

<p>add these four and “fixed=static” and it should be 49
(i dont remember the social inequality one)</p>

<p>Yeah, I’m pretty sure the ‘readily willing to challenge preconceived notions’ answer is wrong.</p>

<p>what we have so far:
autonomous
teasing
mired = stuck
phlegmatic
mollifying
urbane and erudite
passage 1 - response, passage 2 - communication
scientific implications
to validate the statement
insufficiently skeptical
superfluous
___ and disproportionate
acknowledge that a position seems unreasonable
scant and undistinguished
readily willing to challenge preconceived notions
puzzling phenomenon
polymath
defy imagination
scholarly enthusiasm
has not yet been proven wrong
stories change with social changes
memories he is willing to share
accessible (his writings)
alternative explanation
present tense used for contrast
inhibit-skew
indefatigable
marketing campaign increased sales
teacher’s eccentric questions
unique that he responds
undisclosed past
___ and ambivalent
go “in” there (ape can’t understand “in”)
behavioral evidence used by both authors
better advertising
kids like things that alarm them but can’t harm them
quality control - ability to restrain from sharing something
letters between the two scientists
investigate Homer’s language
learning to write predated classes
women’s suffrage imperative
unflattering
personal reflection
Most people think Homer’s writing was meant to be written (as opposed to sung)
social inequality can change government (women’s suffrage)
Homer wanted to make it flow
dino-man was belittled by his classmates
utilized
fixed-static </p>

<p>**i don’t necessarily agree w these answers, but just compiling what we have so far. I think we still need answers to the short passages, if anyone could rmb them.</p>

<p>What were the choices for the problem with the answer “ambivalent” and what was the sentence like? how about the the one with “disproportionate?”</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.erikthered.com/tutor/SAT-Released-Test-Curves.pdf[/url]”>http://www.erikthered.com/tutor/SAT-Released-Test-Curves.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>do you guys think the curve for this CR will be easy, hard, or in between?</p>

<p>Which question was the one whose answer was present tense for contrast? And what were the options?</p>

<p>I’m pretty sure that “unique that he responds” is wrong. I am confident that it was the one with eccentric/esoteric or whatever it was. It was supported by the text because nobody understood what the teacher was asking/talking about. Then again, I might not be remembering the answers correctly.</p>

<p>The curve will probably be normal?</p>

<p>@ obsquared, I think you’re confusing two different questions about the same passage because I remember putting down both “father’s uniqueness in answering questions” and “shows the teacher’s eccentric approach” as answers. </p>

<p>Gah, I think I missed another really obvious one… Was one of the answers to the dino passage something about “marketing strategy on kids”? I think I put something about “cultural change” for that one :/</p>

<p>@feedback411 Yes, the answer that said the “marketing strategy changed” was correct…Explained how quickly kids were to jump on the yo-yo craze.</p>

<p>it wasn’t wholly “static” it was wholly “repaired”
i don’t really remember the sentence but static sounded really awkward</p>

<p>weren’t insufficiently skeptical and readily attacking preconceived notions answer choices for the same question? or am i imagining things?</p>

<p>@ a1rplanes, I think the question was “What would this passage best serve as?”, and I remember two choices were “report on marketing strategies for kids” and “study on cultural change”. Is that the question you’re referring to? It was the first one on the second page of the passage questions. Another question was like what happened between 1950 and 1951, and I put “sales campaign increased demand for yo-yos” for my answer.</p>

<p>@ beautifulmind13, yeah they were the answer choices to the question that asked about what did author of passage 2 feel that author of passage 1’s point of view was or something like that. “Reluctantly optimistic” was another choice, which is what I put, but thinking about, “insufficiently skeptical” makes a lot more sense :/</p>

<p>@feedback411 Oh! The what would this passage best serve answer was “a study on cultural change.”</p>

<p>Its really about the way cultures embrace trends and how no one can really make any sense out of when something is going to become a “hot sell” and when it’s going to flop. The only way to find any sense in all of the madness is to point to the innumerable marketing ploys everywhere/</p>

<p>@ a1rplanes,</p>

<p>really, are you sure about that? everyone I talked to said the answer was “report on marketing strategy for kids” so I thought my answer (cultural change one) was totally wrong. can anybody else confirm?</p>